Senior Product Manager, Rentals, Homes.com
Job Description
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
Homes.com is reimagining the home search experience for consumers and agents alike. We are empowering people to discover homes, share insights and make connections on their terms – disrupting a multi-billion industry.
Already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com.
Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years’ experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company.
What We Are Looking For:
Homes.com is seeking a dynamic, high-performing product manager to lead the development of its homes rental experience. This role is responsible for advancing feature parity between Homes.com and Apartments.com’s Rental listings, ensuring a more cohesive and seamless consumer experience across CoStar Group’s rental marketplace ecosystem. This person will sit within the Homes.com Product Organization and will serve as a key liaison with Apartments.com to drive feature parity and innovation across rental listings.
This position is located in Arlington, VA and in office Monday through Friday.

Responsibilities:

• Craft a product strategy that supports Homes.com’s business goals, OKRs, and competitive positioning for Rental Listings
• Shape and manage the product roadmap for Homes.com Rental Listings
• Drive end-to-end product management efforts, from ideation to execution, across the entire product development lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery and iteration
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap progress, and performance insights effectively to product, engineering, and sales executive leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment
• Lead by example and inspire those around you by consistently building winning products that make Homes.com and Apartments.com the undoubted leader in rental shopping marketplaces
• Utilize qualitative and quantitative data, customer feedback, market research, and competitive analysis to identify and prioritize product enhancements and opportunities
• Measure and evaluate the success of product releases, using metrics and KPIs to inform further optimizations and new product opportunities
• Think strategically to design and launch features that not only enhance the customer experience, but also create significant business impact and growth
• Forecast and weigh potential impact of new features against one another to make prioritization and tradeoff decisions
• Closely partner with engineering teams to identify viable, efficient, and technically sound solutions for each product initiative
• Collaborate with UI/UX design, content, SEO, analytics teams and other product managers to deliver a seamless product experience that resonates with users and achieves intended business objectives
• Conduct ongoing user research and launch A/B tests to optimize engagement and conversion metrics throughout the user journey

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit University or College
• 5+ years of digital Product Management experience with a proven track record delivering industry leading consumer products and solutions
• Experience with leading and developing a team
• Extensive experience planning, documenting, and communicating product requirements and plans to a broad range of audiences
• Extensive experience collaborating with design iteratively to balance product goals and consumer experience
• Extensive experience partnering with engineering teams to build, test, and launch features in lockstep with one another
• Experience creating and managing a product roadmap and features
• Experience creating wireframes, mock-ups, workflow diagrams, or journey maps to communicate product ideas and proposals
• Experience analyzing and evaluating the success metrics of launched features
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• A track record of commitment to prior employers

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of digital Product Management experience with a proven track record delivering industry leading products and solutions
• Experience with commercial real estate transactions and/or multifamily property management
• Experience using roadmapping and product management suite of tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps/TFS, Asana, Aha!, Monday.com
• Experience using SQL, Google Analytics, FullStory, and/or other analytics tools
• Experience using Maze, UserTesting, UserZoom, Dovetail and/or other user research tools
• Experience conducting product experiments, A/B tests, and/or multivariate tests
• Residential Real Estate domain knowledge

• Craft a product strategy that supports Homes.com’s business goals, OKRs, and competitive positioning for Rental Listings
• Shape and manage the product roadmap for Homes.com Rental Listings
• Drive end-to-end product management efforts, from ideation to execution, across the entire product development lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery and iteration
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap progress, and performance insights effectively to product, engineering, and sales executive leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment
• Lead by example and inspire those around you by consistently building winning products that make Homes.com and Apartments.com the undoubted leader in rental shopping marketplaces
• Utilize qualitative and quantitative data, customer feedback, market research, and competitive analysis to identify and prioritize product enhancements and opportunities
• Measure and evaluate the success of product releases, using metrics and KPIs to inform further optimizations and new product opportunities
• Think strategically to design and launch features that not only enhance the customer experience, but also create significant business impact and growth
• Forecast and weigh potential impact of new features against one another to make prioritization and tradeoff decisions
• Closely partner with engineering teams to identify viable, efficient, and technically sound solutions for each product initiative
• Collaborate with UI/UX design, content, SEO, analytics teams and other product managers to deliver a seamless product experience that resonates with users and achieves intended business objectives
• Conduct ongoing user research and launch A/B tests to optimize engagement and conversion metrics throughout the user journe