Product Manager, Sr

Sr Product Manager role at News Corp (Realtor.com) for a technical platform domain, focused on infrastructure powering lead ingestion and delivery (or the Focus Fire backend).

• Define product strategy for your domain: lead ingestion, validation, spam prevention, and multi-channel delivery, or the Focus Fire backend feature audit and migration
• Partner deeply with engineering on API and webhook design, system architecture, and data contract expectations
• Independently identify structural risk by understanding technical designs at a detailed level
• Set and own measurable targets such as SLAs, migration-cohort readiness, and escalation volume, then drive the roadmap to achieve them
• Lead consolidation or migration to unify fragmented legacy services into a single maintainable platform, sequenced as:
  • Feature audit
  • Thin-slice POC
  • Phased cutover
• Resolve production issues (delivery failures, cross-system sync gaps, data-quality problems) using data-driven prioritization
• Write migration and platform build-out briefs with explicit hypotheses, objectives, and key results for each phase
• Create customer-facing and internal-facing documentation, including integration guides and technical references to enable self-serve support
• Translate client and internal needs (CRM integrations, account and billing workflows, delivery preferences) into clear product requirements
• Represent CRM and operations needs by partnering with customer success, sales, and internal operations teams
• Serve as primary product owner for a dedicated engineering team, including sprint ceremonies, backlog management, and blocker resolution
• Collaborate with data, analytics, and operations teams to define success metrics and monitor production system health
• Communicate roadmap, tradeoffs, and delivery status clearly to senior stakeholders and revenue leadership

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience
• At least 2 years owning infrastructure, platform, data pipeline, or backend migration products
• Experience working closely with engineering on API and webhook design, system architecture, and integration patterns
• Proven ability to define and manage against SLAs in production
• Strong analytical skills and comfort diagnosing delivery issues, prioritizing work, and measuring impact with data
• Track record delivering successful service consolidation or migration with minimal disruption to internal and external customers
• Excellent written communication, including experience producing technical documentation for internal and external audiences

Benefits

• Inclusive and competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time Off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

Preferred

• Experience in real estate, proptech, or marketplace businesses
• Familiarity with CRM systems and common integration patterns (webhooks, custom formatters)
• Background in spam detection, lead quality, or consumer data validation

Work Model

• In-person collaboration supported by on-site work
• For most roles, employees work four or more days in the office

Location: Austin, TX, United States (onsite)