Digital & Technology Product Director

Digital & Technology Product Director

You will be responsible for ensuring the proper balance between business needs, technology options, and user experience to maximize product value and increase efficiency. You will act as the "voice" of the customer, translating customer needs to the Agile team by properly codifying intent, sizing work efforts, prioritizing needs, and summarizing issues. You will act as a senior product voice in the region and will engage with senior stakeholders across various business lines within Investment Management.

You will :

• 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, and 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.
• Manage 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.

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What do we offer you?

About CBRE Investment Management :

Our company is built on respect, integrity, service, and excellence. From roles in portfolio, transaction, and asset management to research, digital and technology and platform functions, there's a place for you on our team. We provide a unique and collaborative culture that leads to expansive careers with a steady stream of new challenges and long-term opportunities. With over 1100 employees spread over 30 offices across 21 countries, CBRE Investment Management is a leading real assets investment management firm.

Why CBRE?

At CBRE, we believe we possess an encouraging environment where integrity, service, and excellence craft our approach to every opportunity. We are guided by the needs of the cities we inhabit, the communities we build, and the world we live in.

CBRE named a Fortune's Most Admired Real Estate Company fourteen years in a row.

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Named a World's Most Ethical Company by Ethisphere for 11th consecutive year.

Ranked #3 on Barron's Most Sustainable Company list.

CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for the Digital & Technology Product Director position is $200,000.00 annually and the maximum salary for the Digital & Technology Product Director position is $220,000.00 annually. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. Successful candidates will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus based on CBRE's applicable benefit program. This role will provide the following benefits : 401(K), Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, and Vision insurance.