Principal Product Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As our Senior Director of Product, you excel at three things: crafting product vision, managing team culture, and understanding tradeoffs. In this role you will be required to understand the business to develop new products and guide existing ones toward positive outcomes for customers and Newmark. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Identify and own the product-business relationship for the assigned products/line of business
• Follow a structured approach to define product vision and strategy, identify the measures of success and help guide the baselining of key KPIs
• 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
• Partner with change management teams and resources to drive product go-to-market activities (i.e. marketing, communications, training, instructional learning, etc.) to enable engagement and adoption
• Guide the team/Drive discovery of new ideas to assess/define the problem statement, the benefit hypothesis and adherence to the strategic vision 
• Partner with UX and data 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
• Train/Demo users on system as needed
• Ability to travel between 10 – 15 percent of the time

 

 

SKILLS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• University bachelors/master’s degree, preferably in business, information systems, marketing, computer science, or other relevant areas
• 9+ 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.