Senior Product Manager II

Job Description

SUMMARY:

Interested in shaping our Broker Experience strategy across Anywhere Real Estate? Come join us! The Broker Platform has never been more important to brokers.

As a Senior Product Manager I at Anywhere Real Estate, you will help shape the strategy to grow your product and its user base. You will use your Real Estate, Software Development and Business experience to deliver the brokerage toolset of the future. Working closely with technical functions, UX, brand operators, and third-party vendors, you will ensure that value is being provided to our customer base of real estate brokers. You will define the why, what, and when of the product that will be built by internal or external engineering teams.

We are looking for an experienced PM to join us, working with a team of engineers, designers, and more, to deliver compelling, valuable, and impactful experiences to our broker. 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 Anywhere and our brands to design holistic solutions. This will require technical depth to ensure we make good trade-offs among multiple technology options. Your expertise in creating performant, flexible experiences and building cross-team & brand partnerships will be a key differentiator in this role. In addition to driving our experiences, you will need to be a product leader on a number of efforts, able to represent the team and product as necessary, and ensuring we create and deliver a coherent Broker Experience story.

• Serve as a thought leader for your product area, leveraging your curiosity, user and market research along with data analysis skills to chart a profitable path for your product that meets user needs.
• Lead day-to-day product activities from vision to roadmap to implementation.
• Influence one of the high visibility/high impact areas in the organization and have an immediate positive impact on our users.
• Drive usability studies, intuitive navigation, and dive deep into data to gain customer insights.
• Define product roadmaps, work with engineering to build the products and coordinate across internal stakeholders.
• Use product feedback loops to be a champion of voice-of-customer, leveraging research, product instrumentation, and operational data to make informed decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to solve urgent product issues.

• Excellent communication skills – the ability to present to small and large groups of colleagues, sales associates, vendors, and company executives – explaining what the product is about and why it is important.
• Strong time management skills – to support multiple products and assignments.
• Track record of creative problem solving and the desire to create and build new products.
• Experience with evaluating technical solution designs to ensure they meet business requirements and long-term product goals.
• Experience working with multiple vendors and technical teams (both internal and offshore).
• Comfort operating in a highly matrixed organization that relies on building support in other groups and the ability to influence through others, deliver results, and earn trust quickly of the organization and stakeholders.
• A clear understanding of how companies make money, how our company makes money, and how our customers make money. It includes knowledge about the organization, stakeholders, business context, and the ability to link cause and effect both behaviorally and financially.
• Systems thinking, the ability to understand how a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems.
• The ability to methodically solve problems by eliciting, understanding, and working through details to reach and communicate a solution.
• The ability to elicit, understand, evaluate, and frame user problems. Then leveraging these clearly understood problems to design elegant solutions.
• The ability to articulate requirements via visual models, user stories, etc. and determine whether they are clear, complete, concise, and unambiguous.
• The ability to identify, assess, and influence one's own feelings and those of others and alter your approach or responses to changes in circumstances or environment.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering; or demonstrated track record of successful work experience.
• 5 years of experience in product management roles building and launching successful digital products or businesses.
• Residential real estate brokerage knowledge preferred but not required.

We Are a Team Of Forward-thinking, Problem-solving Product Enthusiasts Who Drive Innovation For Our Agents, Employees, Brands And Brokers 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.

We are the pit crew, dedicated to teamwork, precision, and performance. In our world, our agents and brokers are the drivers, the ones at the helm. The brands are the car – the vehicle that powers the driver to success. We serve as the pit crew – possessing the expert understanding of our drivers and having the technical ability to help them succeed. In our world, we all have a very specialized role to play and are focused on one core mission: when we do our jobs well, the agents and brokers triumph.

Full-time

Anywhere Real Estate Inc

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. Recognized for twelve consecutive years as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, Anywhere has also been designated a Great Place to Work four years in a row, named one of LinkedIn’s 2022 Top Companies in the U.S., and honored by Forbes as one of the World’s Best Employers 2022.

We strive to be the preferred company for diverse talent, committed to creating an inclusive environment that encourages everyone to succeed. We pursue talent – strategic thinkers who are eager to innovate, focused on execution and accountable for results. We value diversity – respecting backgrounds, cultures, perspectives.

You’ll find our commitment to diversity reflected in our achievements:

• Forbes 2022 Best Employers for Diversity.
• Forbes 2022 World’s Top Female Friendly Companies.
• Recognized on the 2020 Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index.
• Recognized for gender diversity on our board of directors by Executive Women of New Jersey and Women’s Forum of New York.

With diversity, we succeed together. We hope you’ll join us.

$110,000- $180,000; At Anywhere, actual compensation within that range will be dependent upon the individual’s skills, experience, and qualifications.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability