RealPage, Inc. is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs grow their property management businesses. The Product Manager will be responsible for delivering high-value solutions for customers, collaborating with engineering and design teams, and maintaining alignment with product strategy and industry trends.
Responsibilities:
- Take responsibility for the team’s success in delivering high-value solutions for Buildium’s customers
- Ensure that all delivered work meets the stated goals and help the Business measure and report outcomes
- Act as a product and customer expert to your team’s Engineering Lead, Developers and UX Designers
- Work with Product Marketers to launch and promote new products and features
- Keep Customer Success, Customer Support and Sales informed of product changes and serve as the point person for them on your team
- Run at least one scrum team as 'product owner'
- Understand and break down features into work items for Delivery
- Participate in backlog grooming and sizing, sprint planning, and daily Scrum rituals
- Acceptance test completed work items
- Own the team’s release plan and prioritized backlog
- Work with the Engineering Lead, Scrum Master and user experience designer to keep work on track
- Work with other members of the Product Management practice to coordinate and share subject matter expertise
- Stay on top of the property management industry, technology trends, the competition
- Understand the property management/Proptech industry and economic trends affecting the space
- Maintain alignment with product strategy and consistency across products and features
- Serve as a resource for other teams during product conceptualization
Requirements:
- Grit and a good attitude. Come to this hiring process with examples of how you analyzed a market and a customer set, and what you built as a result. Tell us what YOU did with YOUR opportunities
- BA/BS degree and 1-2 years of experience with product management or equivalent business experience
- A passion for solving customer problems and creating products that inspire
- An understanding of the software development lifecycle, including who is involved and what they bring to the table
- Design aptitude; you don't need to be a designer, but you need to recognize good and bad design when you see it
- Exceptional verbal and written communications skills; you must be equally adept working with engineers and designers as you are with customers
- Patience and calm under pressure
- Buildium Core Essential Competencies: Customers above all, always. Problem solving, action-oriented, dealing with ambiguity, perseverance, integrity and trust, ethics and values, learning on the fly, work/life balance
- Product Owner Essential Competencies: written communication, priority setting, approachability, decision quality, drive for results, organizing, managing and measuring work, presentation skills