Product Director, Commercial Technology Services

Make your next move an expert one.

At Colliers it’s not our success that sets us apart, it’s how we achieve it. Our people are passionate, take ownership and always do what’s right for our clients, people and communities.

Why Colliers?

Our enterprising environment needs your expertise to facilitate Colliers’ continued growth as an industry leader. Our nimble, decentralized culture can provide you with a wealth of opportunities to learn about our business and quickly gain experience to accelerate your career.

This position is a remote role based in USA.

Make your next move an expert one.

At Colliers it’s not our success that sets us apart, it’s how we achieve it. Our people are passionate, take ownership and always do what’s right for our clients, people, and communities.
 

Why Colliers?

Make your mark as a commercial real estate expert in our enterprising and agile environment, which provides easy access to executive advice for faster decision making and execution. You’ll get the tools and support you need to give you the creative and competitive edge to exceed expectations and tap into limitless potential for business growth.

About You

As the Product Director, Commercial Technology Services you will report into the VP, Products – Commercial Technology Services and support our advisor and client technology product strategy, roadmap planning and oversee product launches from ideation through execution. You will have a deep understanding of our advisors’ and clients’ business and be able to incorporate their needs into product roadmaps. You will help drive our technology strategy across Colliers in collaboration with platform and product leadership, key stakeholders, user groups, engineering, and marketing.

In this role, you will…

• Report to and work with the VP, Products – Commercial Technology Services to define product strategy and roadmaps for our advisor and client products to bring to life new capabilities and features through expanded offerings in the market.

• Provide leadership over the practice of product management, including coaching, career development, and growth of the product managers.

• Define, iterate, and be a steward of the product development process. Continue to improve upon our product management practices, methods, skills, and processes especially as we scale up the team.

• Collaboratively define and manage the product framework used to identify, evaluate, and select potential initiatives in partnership with Service Lines, Research, Engineering, Marketing and Operations.

• Build relationships with key stakeholders and cross-functional partners to guide our product strategy, and roadmap.

• Oversee key strategic and cross-team initiatives and driving alignment and consistency around product management decisions made across commercial technology platforms.

• Translate product and business strategy and priorities into roadmaps. Prioritizes and maintains the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of business stakeholders and users.

• Create quarterly operating plans that establish criteria for success and measure performance of the team and individual contributors.

• Identify pain points and improvements for internal and external stakeholders

• Leverage internal and external data along with qualitative research to increase confidence in the opportunity for impact within our vision and mission of the best new product ideas.

• Ensure their team has the tools and training they need to be successful.

• Stay current with industry, product, and market trends to identify potential ideas and disruptors and share with leadership based on opportunity and/or threat.

• Engage with current and potential customers for feedback on potential product ideas and work with the field teams to identify research and revenue opportunities.

What you’ll bring…

• 12+ years product experience with at least 5 years in a product leadership role, managing cross-functional teams.

• 7+ years’ experience in commercial real estate with an understanding of the CRE lifecycle and demonstrated knowledge within the CRETech / PropTech product groups.

• Experience working with SaaS products is a must and exposure to hosted Enterprise offerings is a bonus.

• Own the product requirements and implement the processes to capture input from the business to inform the vision and user stories.  Conduct effective UAT to ensure successful releases

• Experience in Product MVP development, and hands-on product launch initiatives including b