Senior Product Manager Job Description **Sr. Product Manager - Apartments.com** Company: 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. For over 35 years, CoStar Group has been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces, giving them perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to their customers. By continually refining, transforming, and perfecting their approach to their business, CoStar has created a language that has become the standard in the industry, for their customers, and even competitors. As they continually work to continue that effort as well as improve and drive innovation, they are able to deliver for their customers, employees, and investors. CoStar Group provides an invaluable edge in real estate, by equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available. **About Us:** Apartments.com is the nation’s #1 rental marketplace for owners, property managers and consumers. Apartments.com is the network that millions of renters every year rely on to find their new place, is continuing to grow our industry-leading sales force. We provide apartment Property Managers and Owners with a platform to market their property listings and the industry’s most comprehensive virtual tools to attract the most and highest-quality renters. The Apartments.com Network includes Apartments.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentFinder.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, and eight other leading rental sites. Our suite of services includes digital advertising, social and reputation management, and market analytic solutions which delivers innovative tools for our customers. **About the Role:** The Apartments.com Network is a cornerstone of Apartments.com’s strategy and plays a vital role in helping our customers maximize their advertising exposure and reach renters with diverse needs. Together, Apartments.com and our Network Sites serve millions of renters every day and provide the most effective advertising solutions for property managers. The Aparments.com team is seeking a high-performing results-driven Senior Product Manager to lead our Apartments Network Sites through their next phase of growth. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape the future of how people find their next home and how properties connect with qualified renters. You will be responsible for building consumer experiences for a suite of digital products that power our rental search while driving growth initiatives in partnership with SEO, Content, and Marketing teams. Success in this role will require a deep understanding of the evolving rental landscape, renter behavior, emerging trends in digital advertising, and the growing needs of Multifamily advertisers. Beyond designing and shipping features, you will get the opportunity to define and steer the product strategy along with the roadmap while evaluating competitive movements to stay ahead. Additionally, this role entails managing direct report(s) who will benefit from effective oversight and guidance on their respective product areas. The ideal candidate is both, a strategic thinker and a tactical operator who is passionate about building creative solutions to differentiate itself from competitors. This position is located in Atlanta, GA and offers 4 days a week onsite with 1 day remote. **Responsibilities:** • Manage at least one Product Managers involved in executing strategy and partnering with key stakeholders. • Craft a product strategy that supports Apartments.com’s OKRs and competitive positioning. • Shape and manage the product roadmap for one of Apartments.com’s key product domains to execute the product strategy. • 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. • Coach and develop more junior product managers or cross-functional team members by fueling their growth, providing candid and constructive feedback, leading by example and inspiring those around you. • 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. **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 road mapping 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. **What’s in it for you? **   When you join CoStar Group, you will experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. We offer generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with training and tuition reimbursement. Other highlights of our benefits package include: • Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug . • Life, legal, and supplementary insurance. • Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family. • Commuter and parking benefits. • 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions. • Employee stock purchase plan. • 11 holidays and 3 weeks of vacation per year. • On-site fitness center. • Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups. • Snacks and caffeine. We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position. CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing. CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing 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 37 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable products and services. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry and for our customers. 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. CoStar is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. CoStar is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. 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