Senior Product Manager, AI Enabled Search, Homes.com

Homes.com; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Homes.com is seeking a talented Product Manager to enhance its AI-powered home discovery platform. You will lead the search experience, focusing on user-centric features and innovative AI technologies. Responsibilities include optimizing search functionality, defining the product strategy, and managing development from ideation to launch. An ideal candidate has extensive product management experience, especially in consumer search and data analytics. The position is in Arlington, Virginia, and offers a collaborative work culture with competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of digital Product Management experience focused on consumer search.
• Experience managing product features for heavily visited consumer websites.
• Proven record in delivering and launching product enhancements to meet customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the search experience for Homes.com, including optimizing the AI features.
• Drive product strategy and roadmap for Homes AI.
• Work directly with development teams and UX designers.

Skills

Digital Product Management

Consumer search experience

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution

Tools

Wireframing tools

Analytics tools

Job description

Job Description

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S’P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

What We Are Looking For

Homes.com is seeking a dynamic, high-performing product manager to lead the continued evolution of its AI-powered home discovery. This is a role that will be responsible for driving an exceptional search experience that users love. The Search product lead will focus on enhancing Homes AI, our intelligent, user-centric experience that helps homebuyers, sellers, agents, and renters discover properties, gain insights, and make more confident decisions. This person will be responsible for optimizing the existing search experience (typeahead, search result relevance, search result placard design, filters, sorting, map layers) and leveraging AI-based technologies to drive innovative new search experiences. This role will be expected to have a deep understanding of consumer marketplace search and user experience best practices.

This position is in office Monday through Friday.

Responsibilities

• Lead the search experience across the site, including search for homes, schools, neighborhoods, condo buildings and agents
• Own and drive the product strategy and roadmap for Homes AI features across Homes.com
• Contribute to the vision for what home search could be, including the application of AI-based search functionality and utilization of large language models (LLMs), natural language processing and conversational search
• Identify opportunities to leverage and connect Homes AI with our ML roadmap to improve home search, personalization, recommendations, and user engagement
• Drive feature development from start to finish, this includes writing user stories (requirements), prioritizing releases, maintaining a product roadmap and backlog, and creating release notes
• Influence and manage the product roadmap for the product area that you manage
• Define the analytics and key performance indicators necessary to continually improve the search experience
• Solicit user feedback to improve and refine the user experience

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of digital Product Management experience with a proven track record delivering industry leading products and solutions, with a primary focus on consumer search experiences
• Expertise in designing and managing the search experience for a heavily visited consumer website or application
• Knowledge of best practices and concepts related to filtering, sorting, search result relevance, map functionality
• Experience defining and detailing product requirements and launching products/functionality enhancements to meet customer needs
• Experience with consumer engagement data analytics
• Demonstrated history of working directly with software development teams, technical managers and UX designers to ship new features and improvements
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Experience creating wireframes & mock ups to visually convey and inspire product ideas
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in person, University or College
• A track record of commitment to prior employers

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• 8+ years of digital Product Management experience with a proven track record delivering industry leading products and solutions, with a primary focus on consumer search experiences
• Experience with natural language processing, large language models, conversational search, chat bots
• Experience managing a team of product managers and data analysts
• Residential Real Estate domain knowledge

What’s in It For You?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.

Our Benefits Package Includes (but Is Not Limited To)

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.