About the position
This position is a hybrid role requiring employees to work from our headquarters location in Seattle, WA every Tuesday and Wednesday, and remote all other days. Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, beautiful software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying, selling, and renting process. This role is a key player in the success of that operation: The Principal Product Manager for Core Agent Tools is responsible for driving the roadmap for high-impact initiatives for our brokerage, empowering our Redfin agents with new software and services that help them better serve our customers. This includes the rollout of major new initiatives, the definition of new software, and creation, coordination, and execution of strategic vision for the software Redfin agents use every day. Principal PMs are our most senior individual contributors at Redfin, and this role's importance and ambiguity demands it. You'll be the steward of key pieces of Redfin's core engine, where your success will directly and significantly impact Redfin's profitability. You'll be in charge of defining new products and software that both improve and revolutionize how Redfin provides service to our customers, requiring you to navigate through many layers of risk and ambiguity in a partner-rich environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic discussions with high-level executives to solidify vision and align on product strategy.
- Forge roadmaps, requirements, and product designs, setting concrete goals to measure team success.
- Work with stakeholders across businesses to build a cohesive experience, navigate tradeoffs, and drive business results.
- Define and execute on the product roadmap for your team, rallying a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, operations leaders, and analysts to ship world-class products.
- Influence engineering leaders on technical directions that have strategic impact.
- Dive deep into data with analysts to offer critical insights and execute on product improvements.
- Effectively communicate progress, outcomes, and recommendations to executives through clearly written narratives and reviews.
- Improve the company's best practices and mechanisms as a senior Product leader on the team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of Product Management experience working with a team to build and deliver new products or experiences, preferably with an MBA degree.
- Able to influence executives and entry-level employees alike across multiple functions.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly develop subject matter expertise in a complex area.
- Deep customer empathy; able to listen to users, understand their key problems, and develop intuitive solutions.
- Track record of working on innovative problems that are ambiguous at the outset, simplifying complexity into something actionable.
- Great communicator; able to distill a challenging problem into its essential elements and clearly communicate vision.
- Data-driven; able to articulate complex issues in a simple way.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with a salary, bonuses, and stock grants.
- Generous benefits, including three weeks of paid vacation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and fully paid family leave.
- Amazingly smart and fun teammates, and a management team invested in your growth and success.
- A great work environment with free food and snacks, happy hours, game nights and hackathons.
