Sr. Product Manager, Front-End Experience - Rentals

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

About The Position

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions. Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance. Are you passionate about building intuitive consumer products? Are you motivated by solving complex discovery and search challenges at scale? If you're looking to grow your product career at Realtor.com®, consider joining us as our newest Senior Product Manager, Front-End Experience (Rentals). As the Senior Product Manager for the Rentals Front-End Web Experience, you will own the "front door" of the Realtor.com rentals marketplace. You will lead the strategy and execution of the web-based consumer journey from the initial search and discovery phase to the moment a renter submits an application. You will focus on delivering fast, intuitive, and trustworthy Rentals experiences that improve user confidence and drive meaningful business outcomes, while helping ensure alignment across Product, Engineering, Design, and Data teams.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in product management or a related role, ideally in marketplace or e-commerce environments with exposure to consumer Search.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Experience delivering user-facing discovery or search-related features with measurable business impact.
Strong understanding of user journeys, funnel behaviors, and marketplace dynamics; ability to translate shopper intent into confident action.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to influence cross-functional partners and present findings effectively.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and partnering with engineering throughout the development lifecycle.
Analytical mindset with experience using experimentation and product analytics to inform decisions.
Empathy for users and a passion for building fast, intuitive, and trustworthy discovery experiences.
Comfort collaborating with Engineering and Data Science on APIs, performance considerations, telemetry needs, and experiment design.

Nice To Haves

Real estate domain knowledge; familiarity with responsible AI principles, accessibility best practices, or mobile-first product development.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the product strategy for the Rentals business and help maintain a prioritized roadmap aligned with team objectives.
Lead discovery efforts for your areas of ownership, identifying opportunities to improve search UX, filters/faceting, results layouts, exploration pathways, and saved alerts.
Balance iterative improvements with emerging longer-term needs identified by leadership and stakeholders.
Define success metrics for your features (e.g., query success rate, CTR, refinement/filter usage, saves/follows, zero-results interactions).
Partner with Analytics/Data to monitor performance, diagnose issues, and identify opportunities for improvement.
Use qualitative and quantitative insights—A/B tests, usability research, session replays, surveys—to validate hypotheses and inform prioritization.
Run and interpret experiments within your domain and document learnings to scale improvements across the team.
Work closely with Engineering, Design, Analytics, SEO, Marketing, and Customer Service to ensure successful execution of initiatives.
Gather input from consumers, agents, and internal stakeholders to refine product requirements and enhance trust and transparency in search experiences.
Collaborate with engineering teams to clarify requirements, ensure performance and reliability expectations are met, and improve logging/telemetry for observability.
Align with the PM for ranking/modeling on interfaces, feature signals, and shared success metrics.
Write clear PRDs, acceptance criteria, and release plans to support smooth development cycles.