Product Director, Commercial Technology Services

Colliers International; Missouri; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading commercial real estate firm is seeking a Product Director for Commercial Technology Services. This remote role involves defining product strategies, overseeing launches, and leading cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates should have extensive product management experience, particularly in commercial real estate and SaaS, along with strong communication skills. This position offers competitive benefits and growth opportunities.

Benefits

Employer-subsidized medical benefits

401k plan with employer match

15+ days of vacation annually

10 days of sick leave

Qualifications

• 12+ years of product experience with a minimum of 5 years in a leadership role.
• 7+ years experience in commercial real estate.
• Demonstrated ability in product MVP development and launch.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategies and roadmaps.
• Oversee product development processes.
• Build relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Product leadership

SaaS products

Commercial real estate knowledge

Agile principles

Strong communication

Tools

Jira

Aha!

AdobeXD

Figma

Sketch

Balsamiq

Job description

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 the USA.

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.

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.
• 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.
• Collaboratively define and manage the product framework used to identify, evaluate, and select potential initiatives.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and cross-functional partners to guide our product strategy and roadmap.
• Oversee key strategic and cross-team initiatives and drive alignment and consistency around product management decisions made across commercial technology platforms.
• Translate product and business strategy and priorities into roadmaps.
• 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 of 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.
• Experience in Product MVP development, and hands-on product launch initiatives including business case preparation and presentation.
• A track record of and a desire to operate in a fast-paced environment, building teams, frameworks, and processes.
• Established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles.
• Strong, adaptive communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Experience with product lifecycle management methodologies and with using tools such as Jira and Aha! to generate formal product roadmaps.
• Experience using AdobeXD, Figma, Sketch, Balsamiq, and other modern collaborative design tools.
• Demonstrated, proven experience of situations where you learned and understood a client's business domain previously unfamiliar to you.

Benefits

Employees (and their families) are provided options for employer-subsidized medical benefits, including RX, dental, vision, as well as employer-paid basic life/AD&D insurance and short-term/long-term disability. Employees are able to enroll in our company's 401k plan, which includes an employer match. Employees will also receive 10 days of sick leave and a minimum of 15-days vacation annually.

Colliers provides equal employment opportunity to all persons. No employee or applicant for employment will be discriminated against because of race, creed, origin, marital status, sexual orientation, age, otherwise qualified disabled, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.