Senior Product Manager, Lease Accounting CoStar Real Estate Manager

Senior Product Manager, Lease Accounting, Visual Lease & CoStar Real Estate Manager

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.

We are seeking a passionate and knowledgeable Senior Product Manager with a strong foundation in accounting, finance, or financial software to join our CoStar Real Estate Manager and Visual Lease teams. In this role, you will help shape cutting‑edge financial, accounting, and portfolio management solutions used by thousands of companies worldwide. A core focus of the role is lease accounting compliance, including standards such as ASC 842, IFRS 16, and GASB 87, though candidates with adjacent accounting or financial software experience are strongly encouraged to apply and will be considered competitively.

This is a full‑time, in‑office position based in either Iselin, NJ or Atlanta, GA.

• Develop Deep Accounting Domain Expertise:
  Organize and share best practices related to corporate lease accounting processes; stay updated on lease accounting rules established by domestic and international financial accounting governing bodies; engage key customers, prospects, service partners, analysts, and industry subject matter experts to keep a pulse of lease accounting best practices and common needs and roadblocks; engage key internal teams such as Sales, Support, Implementation and Alliances to understand the impact of persistent lease accounting roadblocks and needs;
  
  document and share updated best practices internally and externally as needed.
• Maintain Backlog:
  Capture, groom lease accounting backlog items and inform prioritization decisions; serve as the primary point of contact to collect and prioritize all feedback related to lease accounting functionality; capture and continuously update backlog details for all lease accounting‑related items so they reflect relevant insights from stakeholders and market research; use analytics tools to track product performance and drive improvements; provide prioritization recommendations to Product Leadership to optimize business value, aligning customer demands, regulatory needs and company goals.
• Design Release‑Ready functionality:
  Design easy‑to‑use, effective and scalable lease accounting functionality to address market needs; document and share all technical requirements; collaborate with Product Designer to meet internal design requirements while addressing user needs; work with Product Leadership to approve designs and requirements aligned with business goals; partner with Engineering to ensure accurate execution and conduct functional testing for iterative improvements.
• Quality Assurance & Acceptance Testing:
  Develop clear acceptance criteria and advise on testing plans; lead user acceptance testing (UAT) and work with QA teams to identify and resolve defects.
• Ensure Adoption:
  Enable successful lease accounting product adoption; lead feature demos using realistic lease data; communicate technical requirements clearly to internal teams in‑person or virtually; expose and address release risks; recommend implementation and training approaches and ensure materials capture technical details; work with Product Marketing to ensure GTM materials accurately capture functionality; gather feedback from internal stakeholders to determine customer acceptance and alignment;
  
  monitor and analyze adoption using user analytics (Pendo) and support cases post‑release (Salesforce) to capture additional backlog items that address customer issues.

• A bachelor’s degree is required from an accredited, not‑for‑profit, in‑person university or college.
• 5+ years of direct or indirect experience in…