Product Manager, CoStar

Product Manager, CoStar Overview

CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, 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.

• Lead and manage the product roadmap and delivery of new product features and enhancements across the Suite of Leasing Products.
• Define and document user stories, write and review acceptance criteria, manage development resources, and schedule releases.
• Organize user testing, collect feedback, and translate it into actionable development priorities.
• Collaborate with Marketing to develop collateral and launch materials and execute thoughtful roll‑out strategies.
• Plan and execute product/feature deployments to our large subscriber base.
• Use customer data and usage analytics to identify product opportunities, evaluate results, and inform decision making.
• Build creative products that enhance customer experience with our products and provide tools to make better business decisions.
• Take ownership of the product road map from inception through to release of new features and enhancements.
• Drive product releases in a fast‑paced Agile software development environment, writing user stories, prioritizing releases, maintaining a product roadmap and backlog, and creating release notes.
• Work closely with senior executives, UI design, engineering, QA, marketing, and sales to strategize, plan, and build products and plans that meet aggressive usage and revenue expectations.
• Understand and analyze customer needs and communicate those needs to team members to build key use cases.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not‑for‑profit university or college.
• 4+ years of Product Management or Leasing experience with a proven track record delivering industry‑leading products and solutions.
• Operational experience in the Commercial Real Estate space and familiarity with the needs of those working in commercial real estate.
• Dedication to understanding user needs through research, feedback, and data analysis, with a focus on delivering solutions that provide value and enhance the user experience.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer support, to drive product development and adoption.
• Experience managing sprint schedules and resources in an Agile‑Scrum development environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
• Experience shaping & executing product or data strategy for a SaaS information product, real estate product or similar product presenting business information, reporting and analytics.
• Action‑oriented self‑starter who can set strategy/business plan and drive execution with a “roll up the sleeves” approach.
• Deeply analytical ability to process data for decisions; a bias for diving into every component of the business.
• Creative problem‑solver and conceptual thinker with the ability to understand and leverage detail‑oriented and analytical issues as needed.
• Articulate and clear communicator able to communicate across all levels within the organization, including the executive team, clients, and external stakeholders.
• High‑horsepower individual with a track record of learning new industries quickly, when necessary.
• Track record of commitment to prior employers.