Senior Product Manager, Public Record Data

CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.  

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.    

What We Are Looking For: 

We are seeking a tech savvy Product Manager with deep public record data expertise across commercial real estate to build data rich features that power the CoStar platform. You will own the roadmap for public record search product and public record data that powers the CoStar product. Capabilities include data ingestion, normalization, linking, quality, and user-facing analytics working closely with Engineering, Research, Data Operations, Design, and GTM teams. This role will directly support CoStar’s expansion in New Homes and global expansion.  

This position is located in Richmond, VA and is in office Monday through Friday. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Product Strategy & Roadmap 

• Define and drive the vision for Public Record data products used across CoStar modules (property, comps, owner/tenant, new construction). Build multi-quarter roadmaps that expand product capabilities, deliver new data sets, and unlock new analytics.  

• Partner with internal stakeholders to deliver outcomes (Research, Data Ops, Platform/ETL, BI/Analytics, Sales, and Marketing). 

•  Ability to translate market needs into prioritized epics and measurable outcomes. 

Data Ingestion, Quality & Compliance 

• Define requirements for ingesting public records at scale (recording offices, assessors, permit/plan/exam systems, state portals, bulk vendors), including permits, plats, entitlements, certificates of occupancy, assessor/parcel and tax roll data, recorded documents (deeds, liens), and builder filings relevant to new construction. 

• Specify normalization, entity resolution, survivorship, versioning, and data lineage standards; work with engineering to implement monitoring (SLAs, data drift, schema changes) and rule based/ML quality checks (dedupe, outlier detection, referential integrity). 

New Construction / New Homes 

• Define data models and workflows that connect permits and plan reviews → starts → stages → COs → listings → sales/closings to deliver lifecycle visibility for subdivisions, phases, lots, and vertical construction across SFR, townhome, condo, and small multi segments.  

• Partner with Design to deliver intuitive UX for builders, investors, brokers, and lenders—e.g., pipeline tracking, market share, absorption/velocity, pricing, incentives, and community amenities. 

Delivery & Execution 

• Author crisp PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and data contracts; manage backlog, ceremonies, and release plans. 

• Coordinate with Platform, API, and Search teams to expose public record data safely and performantly for internal and external use cases. 

• Launch features with clear success metrics; produce release notes, enablement, and field training in partnership with GTM. 

Stakeholder & Customer Engagement 

• Conduct discovery with CoStar users (owners/investors, lenders, appraisers, brokers, developers/builders) to validate problems and pressure test solutions. 

Basic Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of product management (or highly relevant platform/data product role) delivering data intensive products at scale. 

• 3+ years working with public record datasets in commercial real estate—e.g., assessors/tax, recorder documents, permits/inspection/CO data, planning & zoning, land records, and subdivision/plat mapping. 

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person, University or College. 

• Strong technical fluency: data modeling, APIs, event/data pipelines, basics of SQL; comfortable partnering with engineers on schemas, contracts, and SLAs. 

• Clear, concise writing (PRDs, user stories) and strong stakeholder management. 

• Prior work in real estate, proptech, or public data providers. 

• A track record of commitment to prior employers. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience aligning public record data with CRE taxonomies (property/parcel, unit/tenant, owner structures) and linkages to listings, comps, and ownership/portfolio modules. (Owner/portfolio context aligns with internal playbooks.)   

• Familiarity with entity resolution/ID graph design, geospatial concepts (parcel/lot, subdivision/phase), and address normalization. 

• Background integrating third-party providers and working with jurisdictional variability, FOIA/open data processes, data usage rights, and PII governance. 

• Experience in analytics/ML features (dedupe/merge, classification, extraction, confidence scoring). 

• Demonstrated experience with new construction / new homes data and workflows (from permit through CO and sale/closing) and how they connect to inventory, listings, and comps. 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU:   

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. 

In addition to generous compensation and performance-based incentives, you'll be supported in both your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.  

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):   

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug   

• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance 

• Commuter and parking benefits   

• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions 

• Employee stock purchase plan   

• Paid time off   

• Tuition reimbursement   

• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent)   

• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, prepared foods, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks   

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply.  However, please note that CoStar is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.  

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