Job Responsibilities:
- Product Ownership: Define, prioritize, and maintain the product roadmap in alignment with business goals, user needs, and technical feasibility. Ensure roadmap visibility and alignment across all stakeholders.
- Requirement Gathering - Internal: Conduct research, interviews, and analysis to gather insights and translate them into clear product requirements (PRDs, user stories, wireframes).
- Requirement Gathering - External: Conduct market research and analyze industry trends to inform product direction and identify opportunities.
- Agile Leadership: Lead agile ceremonies (stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives), ensuring cross-functional teams are aligned and delivering value. Promote agile best practices and continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate closely with C-Suite leaders and the senior management team, including business, technical, and customer-facing functions to gather feedback and communicate product direction and outcomes. Build strong relationships to drive stakeholder engagement and alignment.
- Metrics & Analysis: Use data to define KPIs, monitor performance, and identify opportunities for innovation, improvement, and optimization.
- Go-to-Market Strategy: Partner with sales, operations, and support teams to successfully launch new features and products. Develop and execute comprehensive go-to-market plans to ensure adoption and impact.
- Customer Advocacy: Champion the voice of the user throughout the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of high-quality experiences.
- Continual Improvement: Drive continual improvement within the Product Management department. Implement best practices, optimize processes, and foster a culture of excellence.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, management or technology.
- Experience: 10-15 years of experience in product management, with a proven track record of leading successful product teams and delivering impactful products.
- Agile/Scrum: Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum development methodologies. Experience in leading agile transformations is a plus.
- Product-Led Growth: Demonstrated success implementing product-led growth strategies with measurable improvements to key metrics. Ability to drive growth through innovative product strategies.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong business acumen with proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities.
- Leadership: Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management capabilities, with a talent for uniting teams and reconciling varied business interests.
- Operational Excellence: Results-oriented and self-motivated, with a proven ability to lead through complexity and prioritize effectively in high-pressure environments.
- Tools: Familiarity with tools like Jira and Confluence. Experience with other product management and collaboration tools is a plus.
- Technical Background: Technical background or experience working closely with software engineers is preferred. Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts effectively.
- Communication Skills: Exceptional oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels. Strong presentation and negotiation skills.
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What We Do
Marcus & Millichap was founded in 1971 with the goal of being a new kind of company – one driven by long-term relationships and built on a culture of collaboration. We focus on bringing together specialized market knowledge, the industry's leading brokerage platform and exclusive access to inventory to achieve exceptional results for our clients, year after year.
Today, we are the industry’s largest firm specializing in real estate investment sales and financing, with over 80 offices and nearly 2,000 investment sales and financing professionals throughout the United States and Canada. In 2021, the firm closed 13,255 transactions with a sales volume of $84.4 billion.