Product Manager - Real Estate & Technology - Costa Mesa, CA

WHO WE ARE Hanley Wood's Market Intelligence is the leading provider of rich data and consulting services for residential real estate development and new-home construction. Hanley Wood Market Intelligence customers include homebuilders, building product manufacturers, land developers, appraisers, real estate investors, municipalities, financial institutions, and investment banking firms. We also serve as a premier source for new home statistics and commentary for major media publications and organizations around the country. For more information, please visit our website www.hanleywood.com

JOB SUMMARY: Hanley Wood Market Intelligence (HWMI) is the leading provider of market intelligence and information in the US homebuilder market. HWMI generates over $15 million in revenues annually and is a division of Hanley Wood, LLC, a privately-held company and publisher in the US home builder market that generates over $250 million in annual sales.

HWMI offers a number of information products that are delivered through custom-built client/server software and targeted to large regional and national builders along with financial institutions in the home builder market.

This position will help shape and build a strategic bridge from the current products to a diversified product line ranging from wholesale information services distributed through major industry partners to browser-based reports and applications marketed directly to local and small regional builders.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES: • Provide on-site, day-to-day guidance to software and systems development teams, based on evolving business needs and market dynamics. • Contribute to overall vision, strategy and roadmap for multiple information services and software products delivered into the US homebuilder market. • Work with field sales organization to aggregate, synthesize and integrate product requirements from customers, including national accounts. • Work with field research organization to enhance company’s ability to collect market information that is accurate, timely and complete. • Work with training and customer support to ensure proper communications to and feedback from customers. • Continually assess strengths and weaknesses of competitive products; based on these assessments recommend and guide implementation of winning strategies and tactics. • Contribute to packaging, pricing and distribution of existing and new products. • Understand and improve flows of data, generated within HWMI and from information suppliers into products.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS: • A minimum of 5 years of product management experience, preferably in the delivery of information and/or software products. • Strong written and oral communications skills; successful experience in presentations/briefings to executives (VP and above). • Accustomed to working in a dynamic and dispersed business environment. • Able to and willing to travel domestically to interface with field sales and research teams, as well as headquarters operations based in Washington, DC. • Working knowledge of software development process; familiarity with web-based information services, user-interface design and applications. • Understanding of and experience in residential real estate industry a plus. • College degree required, preferably with technical and/or business concentration; MBA a plus.

WHAT WE OFFER: We offer a competitive salary, advancement opportunities and great work environment. We also offer an excellent benefits package that includes medial, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401k.

Hanley Wood is an equal opportunity employer.

To apply for this or any of our open positions, please visit our company website at www.hanleywood.com