Product Manager - Remote

RealPage, Inc.•Boston, MA

6d•Remote

About The Position

We’re passionate about helping hard-working entrepreneurs grow their property management businesses. We’re a collection of uniquely talented individuals who are at the top of our game and are determined to get better at what we do every day. There’s zero competition or micromanagement—everyone is the master of their domain, ready to collaborate wholeheartedly with one another and celebrate each other’s successes. Our determination to make our customers’ lives better and break records is contagious—you’ll find yourself becoming intensely passionate about the work that we do, even if the property management industry was never on your radar before you got here. Are you passionate about creating useful products that customers love? Can you break things into the simplest solution that successfully solves a market problem? We need someone who can break down a market and find the essential customer needs ... and then meet those needs with brilliant products. Buildium is an all-in-one property management Saas platform which real estate professionals use to take control of their business by streamlining their accounting, maintenance, communication, and leasing processes in the cloud. You’ll be a key member of the Product Management team helping to deliver the core tools and services property managers need to run their businesses. You’ll collaborate with the team to build, test, and optimize the property management experience. As a Product Manager at Buildium, you’ll work with a delivery team to guide a team of passionate engineers focused on creating products that our customers love. You’ll become the acknowledged expert on your team with deep knowledge of our customers, the industry, our product, and our business.

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

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