Job Description
We are looking for an experienced and innovative
Product Manager to join us, working with a team of engineers, designers and more, to deliver compelling, valuable, and impactful experiences to our clients and consumers. We are looking for individuals who can help foster an inclusive culture and encourage growth mindsets. You will need to partner effectively with teams across Cartus and Anywhere to design holistic solutions. This will require both business acumen and technical understanding to ensure we make good tradeoffs among multiple options. Expertise in creating performant, flexible experiences and building cross-team & vendor partnerships will be a key differentiator in this role. In addition to driving product delivery, you will need to demonstrate product leadership by understanding stakeholder needs, creating product strategy, communicating product value stories, and influencing to affect change.
What You’ll Do
- Oversee a product, feature, and/or system independently; own your product vision, strategy, roadmap, and key performance indicators.
- Help define and build new capabilities. Act as the voice of the user in feature and/or API/microservice design, gathering direct feedback and requirements.
- Innovate in close collaboration with product, technology, UX, business development, and account management teams to solve customer needs through a data-driven approach.
- Engage with stakeholders, both directly & indirectly, in formal and informal opportunities from video calls to in person office visits to connect directly with them.
- Lead product development collaborating with an engineering scrum team.
- Write epics and stories in Jira, use Miro for elaboration and collaboration online with your team members, and document your product/feature designs in Confluence.
- Present in monthly roadmap planning and product operations calls.
- Operate in a matrixed organization that relies on support from other teams to accomplish your product goals.
Who You Are
- A Product Advocate – Able to bring your product to market by solving real problems for your customers using data and insights.
- Always Learning – Proactive about continually honing your craft through things like classes, books and articles, online product forums, and talking with your peers and leaders.
- Accountable and Influential – Work by influencing those on the team, showing mutual trust and respect. Strong work ethic and take full responsibility for the product and know that while there are many cross-functional teams at the table, you are ultimately responsible for the success of the product.
- A Proactive Problem Solver – Track record of creative problem-solving and the desire to create and build new features. You are data-obsessed and constantly looking for ways to work smarter, deliver new efficiencies, innovate and get things done.
- Think 10x – Be revolutionary rather than evolutionary. Ship, learn, iterate. Provide a step-function increase in value with everything you bring to market.
- A Great Communicator – Equally adept at speaking with peers, engineers, business collaborators, and when the time comes, executives. Can write user stories, research documentation, requirements, roadmaps, and strategy papers.
- Strategic and Analytical – You can turn new, vague ideas into implementable actions and identify new opportunities that move the needle. You use data to clarify decisions whenever possible.
- Self-Starter - Innate curiosity and ability to thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment. You have
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher, Computer Science or Computer Engineering preferred; or demonstrated track record of successful work experience.
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience in product management or related roles defining product requirements and building successful solutions with a demonstrated impact. A focus on API and data is a plus.
- Experience with modern product management frameworks and technology methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
- Demonstrated experience in product management roles building and launching successful digital products
- Experience working with remote team members across diverse time zones.
- Ability to influence others, deliver results, and earn trust quickly.
- Talent Mobility industry knowledge preferred but not required.
Who is Anywhere Real Estate Product?
We Are a Team Of Forward-thinking, Problem-solving Product Enthusiasts Who Drive Innovation For Our Stakeholders Across Anywhere Business Lines Each Day. We Are Propelled By a Core Set Of Values
- Inspiring. Have the courage to shape the future.
- Collaborative. Leverage the collective genius.
- Accountable. If it’s to be, it’s up to me.
- Transparent. The good, the bad and the ugly.
- Bold. Fail fast and dare to be different.
- Driven. By passion, speed, and delight.
About Us
Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS) is on a mission to empower everyone’s next move. Home to some of the most recognized brands in real estate Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate , Century 21® , Coldwell Banker® , Coldwell Banker Commercial® , Corcoran® , ERA® , and Sotheby's International Realty®
The Anywhere portfolio includes franchise and brokerage operations as well as national title, settlement, and relocation companies and nationally scaled mortgage origination and underwriting joint ventures. Supporting approximately 1.5 million home transactions in 2021, Anywhere is focused on simplifying, digitizing and integrating the real estate transaction for all consumers, no matter where they may be in their home buying and selling journey. With innovative products and technology, Anywhere fuels the productivity of its approximately 196,200 independent sales agents in the US and approximately 136,400 independent sales agents in 118 other countries and territories.
At Anywhere Real Estate, diversity fuels success – for our company, for our employees, and for our industry. We strive to be a top destination for diverse talent, committed to creating a culture of belonging that empowers everyone’s next move.
We pursue talent – strategic thinkers who are eager to always find a better way, relentlessly focus on talent, obsess about growth, and achieve exceptional results.
We value diversity – respecting backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and beliefs. We develop our diverse talent base – through increasing representation in executive key leadership roles with actions including mentorship programs and partnerships with real estate associations that promote diversity and inclusion. Read more about our company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in our annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report .
You’ll find our commitment to diversity reflected in our achievements:
- Recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies since 2011.
- Anywhere has also been designated a Great Place to Work since 2019.
- Recognized by Fortune as one of America’s Most Innovative Companies.
- Honored by Forbes as one of the World’s Best Employers for Diversity and Top Female Friendly Companies.
With a diverse employee population, we know we will succeed together and move real estate to what’s next. We hope you’ll join us.
