Senior Product Manager

Amherst Costa Rica International; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

401k match

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Job summary

The Amherst Group is seeking a Senior Product Manager to join its Product Team and help identify opportunities to improve the real estate platform for residents, buyers, sellers and investors. You will work with Business Stakeholders and the Tech team (Product + UI/UX + Engineering + Data) to identify gaps, define roadmaps, and deliver value in a growing real estate vertical.

Required: 5+ years in software product management; strong Salesforce ecosystem experience; proficiency with Jira, Github

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software product management.
• Experience delivering features related to customer experience, customer service, and/or customer maintenance.
• Ability to build strong relationships with key business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of agile delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Identify product needs and define a product roadmap.
• Prioritize roadmap based on ROI, run user tests, market research, and feedback.
• Hyper-focus on ideation, discovery, and execution to build right things quickly.
• Collect feedback and measure outcomes to evolve the product.
• Leverage agile sprint practices to deliver high-quality products.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align product vision with business objectives.

Skills

Product management

Salesforce ecosystem

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

Data analysis

Tools

Jira

Github

Confluence

Job description

The Amherst Group's companies are comprised of leading real estate investment and advisory firms with a mission to transform the way real estate is owned, financed and managed. Amherst leverages its proprietary data, analytics, technology, and decades of experience to seek solutions for a fragmented, slow-to-evolve real estate ecosystem and to materially improve the experience for residents, buyers, sellers, communities, and investors. Today Amherst has over 1000 employees and $14.1 billion in assets under management.

Over the past decade, Amherst has scaled its platform to become one of the largest operators of single-family assets and has acquired, renovated, and leased more than 46,000 homes across 32 markets in the U.S. The firm delivers customized, stabilized cash-flowing portfolios of assets to its investors, wrapped in all the ongoing services required to manage, own, and finance the asset including property management, portfolio management, and a full capital markets team. In addition to its single-family rental platform, Amherst's debt business pursues two distinct credit strategies in mortgage-backed securities and commercial real estate lending. Over its 25-year history, Amherst has developed a deep bench of research and technology talent, and leverages data and analytics at every stage in the asset lifecycle to improve operations and preserve long-term value for our investors and the more than 188,000 residents the firm has served.

Amherst is looking for a Senior Product Manager to serve as a key member of the Product Team to ensure customer and business expectations are satisfied while identifying innovative opportunities to stay ahead of the curve. This role will work closely with the Business Stakeholders and Tech team (Product + UI/UX + Engineering + Data) to identify and fill product gaps, uncover new product opportunities, and become an expert in the rapidly growing real estate vertical.

Who You Are:

• A Real Pro. From concept to delivery, rolling out new and innovative products is your thing!
• Intellectually Curious. You are a detective, with a keen interest in solving both business problems and continuously looking to self-improve professionally. You strive for best practices and explore trends/experiments to improve the status quo.
• A Creative Problem Solver. You have a propensity to think strategically, logically and outside the box to solve problems for the business and customer.
• Resilient. You are open to objective feedback and view mistakes as a learning mechanism.
• Hard Working. You aren't afraid of a tough deadline.
• Meticulous. You are highly structured, disciplined, and take pride in your work.
• Knowledgeable. You understand the scrum and agile rituals and leverage best of breed software to help manage the end-to-end process efficiently
• Team Player. You put team success first and have a high degree of personal character

What You'll Do:

• Identify product needs and define a product roadmap that enables highly efficient operation and also delivers an exceptional experience to the customer
• Help define and prioritize the product roadmap based on business/customer ROI by identifying gaps, optimizing the current product features, and uncovering new opportunities through user testing, A/B testing, market research, and customer feedback
• Hyper-focused on ideation, discovery, and execution to build the right things and with speed
• You collect continuous feedback and measure to help evolve the product
• Leverage agile sprint best practices to deliver a high-quality product through a systematic product-development lifecycle
• Work cross-functionally between internal stakeholders to provide the product vision while ensuring business objectives are prioritized and met

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years in software product management
• Ability to effectively balance multiple projects and tasks simultaneously
• Extensive experience working in Salesforce eco-system including Service Cloud, Field Service Lightning, and Digital Experience
• Demonstrated experience delivering features related to customer experience, customer service, and/or customer maintenance
• Worked in agile delivery organization and experience with product management tools such as Jira, Github, and Confluence
• Ability to analyze business and/or technical problems to guide software development
• Ability to build strong relationships with key business stakeholders
• Detail-oriented and self-sufficient
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and research skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Creative, innovative, and exploratory skills and mindset
• A proactive, flexible, and hungry to learn type attitude
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment

Preferred experience working in real estate industry

Our full-time employee benefits include:

• A competitive compensation package, annual bonus, 401k match
• Flexible PTO including 7 paid holidays, 1 floating holiday, and 1 volunteer day
• Employer-paid benefits (medical, dental, vision,