CBRE Investment Management · 3 hours ago
Digital & Technology Product Director- CBRE Investment Management
Boston, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$205K/yr - $225K/yr
12+ years expCBRE Investment Management is a leading global real assets investment management firm. The Digital & Technology Product Director will ensure the balance between business needs, technology options, and user experience to maximize product value and increase efficiency, acting as the 'voice' of the customer and collaborating with various stakeholders.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Develop and communicate a comprehensive vision, product roadmap, and articulate the short-term and long-term strategy holistically for your business value chain, ensuring tight alignment to business strategy and OKRs
Work closely with designers, engineers, and business professionals in a collaborative environment to create strategic, product roadmaps; focus on relationship building with all levels of stakeholders, including senior leadership to drive product vision, strategy, & execution timelines
Draw upon customer insights to drive the software product vision and direction; Provide leadership in identifying and defining ongoing product features that align with business strategy
Define software solutions that CBRE’s technical teams can deliver. Represent the customer to the technical teams, answering questions about client expectations
Hands-on management of day-to-day execution of product delivery, with a focus on building a competitive and differentiating data backed digital advantage
Stay up to date on industry trends, anticipate future market needs, and stay abreast of investment management trends and digital advancements
Work in close collaboration with Data and Data Science teams to drive product embedded analytics and associated insights
Lead product delivery collaboration across business, engineering and data teams, as well as partner on user onboarding, change management and continued product satisfaction
Effectively run governance forums and manage product budgets and overall team performance
Use technical and product expertise to prioritize deliverables and manage backlog of requests. Owns the product backlog & roadmap
Facilitate discussions, user story development and refinement, and testing and validation; contributes to roadblock resolution and decision making
Provide regular updates; manage executive stakeholder communication and reporting
Act as a single point of contact for ongoing support and services. Prioritize needs, engage various technical teams, as needed, route requests to correct owners, and ensure support is provided to internal or external satisfaction
Actively engage in Agile process, including daily scrum sessions, demos, and testing activities, as well as training and change management activities, as needed
Manage changes to features and communication to ensure there is clear indication of what is required for each release
Assist the team in sizing and breaking down Epic into a manageable size to accommodate the release cadence. Writes user stories and cases, as needed
Lead a team of high performing product owners through the product lifecycle and development processes, while instituting and driving mature product management discipline and process adherence
In this role you will be responsible for overseeing a small team of product owners. Provide informal assistance such as technical guidance, and/or training to coworkers. May lead project teams and/or plan and supervise assignments of lower-level employees
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience in a relevant sector, preferably private equity, asset management, or financial services (B2B, highly regulated environment), or commercial property
Previous roles must have been held within digital product teams, adhering to industry recognized frameworks
Completed education at university level in a related field of work or equivalent work experience
Requires technical and business knowledge in multiple disciplines/processes
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong organizational and analytical skills
Ability to effectively present information to senior stakeholders and groups
Ability to research, comprehend, analyze, and interpret complex documents accurately
Ability to solve problems involving several options in situations
Requires advanced analytical and quantitative skills
Ability to solve problems of moderate complexity
Benefits
401(K)
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Vision insurance
Company
CBRE Investment Management
Operating across every dimension of real assets investments, we see more so you can achieve more.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Robert McManus
Chief Technology Officer | Listed Real Assets
Ian Zieger
Global CFO
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