As our senior product manager for the brokerage business, you excel at three things: crafting product vision, managing team culture, and understanding tradeoffs. In this role, the product manager will be required to understand the business to develop new products and guide existing ones toward positive outcomes for customers and Newmark. As they shepherd a product along on its journey to market, they will be charged with understanding the needs of the team to ensure the best outcome for the business.
Product managers don't always get to work on large teams to start. At the beginning, they will be expected to wear many hats. Not only will they define the problem statement, the product mission and what success looks like for the product. They will often be asked to eschew the traditional scope of their role to drive the early success of their product with great research and analysis to validate their hypotheses.
RESPONSIBILITIES
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Act as the "voice of the customer" from the business side in to the rest of the organization
Envision/articulate the product strategy for assigned products
Drive discovery of new ideas to assess/define the problem statement, the benefit hypothesis and adherence to the strategic vision
Partner with the Product Director in defining a multi-year roadmap for the assigned product/s to illustrate our vision and plan into the future
Partner with UX designers and engineers to conceptualize intuitive, scalable, and high-quality solutions that help users accomplish their "Jobs To Be Done"
Collaborate with the engineering and delivery leads to ensure on-time, within-budget delivery of committed features on a roadmap
Drive buy-build-partner analysis, and where necessary, review potential partner relationships for the product
Develop and deliver KPIs which measure product value and adoption metrics
Train/Demo users on system(s) as needed
Ability to travel between 10 - 15 percent of the time
QUALIFICATIONS
SKILLS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
University bachelors/master's degree, preferably in business, information systems, marketing, computer science, or other relevant areas
6+ years of experience in Product Management, having managed multiple/portfolio of digital products preferably in the real estate industry
Experience managing product roadmap end to end
Excellent communication skills to interact with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams
Metrics-driven: Strong analytical and synthesis skills are a must, including the ability to absorb and process large amounts of data into actionable information
Extensive experience in defining, refining and prioritizing the product backlog aligned with the product roadmap
Experience driving stakeholder discussions, demonstrations and sticking to the desired agenda to produce expected outcomes
Experience in Agile development and writing user stories
Experience with best practice agile scrum development and lean startup principles
Proficient in productivity applications such as Microsoft Office, Miro, etc.
WORKING CONDITIONS: Normal working conditions with the absence of disagreeable elements
NOTE: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Newmark is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
