Data Product Manager - Atlanta, GA

At Cortland, you map the story of your success. We don't adhere to the status quo, we love outside industry perspective, and we thrive on exploring possibilities and reimagining solutions. As an innovative leader in multifamily, our high performance continues to drive exponential growth – and we invite you to join us on our journey towards real estate excellence. With tools and guidance to sharpen your skills, you can forge your own career path, love what you do, and let it show. 

As the Product Manager you support the development and acquisition of multimillion-dollar, multifamily apartment home communities through quantitative analysis, modeling, and reporting. Here is the list of responsibilities: 

• Conduct product discovery with customers, discern requirements, and translate into user stories 

• Communicate with confidence, clarity and effectiveness in presenting to diverse stakeholders 

• Oversee the development of data engineering pipelines, ensuring alignment with business value and managing dependencies 

• Develop relationships with key stakeholders across the business to facilitate feedback for continuous product improvement 

• Design and implement tools and processes to scale and improve product development practices 

• Execute on the prioritized roadmap by managing epics through an agile delivery model 

• Prioritize deliverables that align with the business and identify strategic opportunities with data using quantitative methodology 

• Manage the complete product lifecycle from discovery to delivery 

• Leverage Python or SQL for ad-hoc data analysis, providing insights and supporting data-driven decision making 

• Create release notes and present new features to stakeholders 

• Drive the adoption of Cortland products by the business through data 

The Impact You Can Make

• Data analytics, engineering, and data science teams rely on your leadership for determining the product roadmap 

• The Operations and Investments teams look forward to seeing your well-developed models, insightful dashboards, and in-depth analyses. 

• Lead Cortland and the industry in leveraging innovative technologies like generative intelligence 

• Become a trusted advisor of key business stakeholders on how to best leverage data products 

• Investors have a crystal-clear picture of how their assets are performing via quality data products 

• Experience working with REST APIs and related tools and technologies used for data integration 

• Demonstrates a high degree of emotional intelligence and empathy for the customers pain points 

• Demonstrates a strong curiosity to learn new things and actively seeks opportunities to grow their skills. 

• Excellent written and verbal communicator with the ability to ask discerning questions during product discovery and translate requirements into user stories 

• Experience with Analytical AI, Data Science, or Gen AI, with demonstrated ability to gather requirements and prioritize AI-related use cases effectively 

• Exposure or experience with Data Mesh architecture 

• Exposure or interest in data governance best practices that promote data quality 

• Degree in a quantitative, analytical, or financial discipline 

• Mastery of Excel and PowerPoint 

• Experience with project management tools such as Jira and Confluence 

• Expertise with data analytics tools such as SQL, Python, or PowerBI 
• Understanding of real estate dynamics is nice to have 

At Cortland, we create, reimagine, and manage apartment communities for residents nationwide. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, we have communities and regional offices all over the country, as well as overseas. From product design and procurement to general contracting and property management, we do it all – to make sure our communities are the perfect setting for living life to its fullest.  

Our success is fueled by our belief in a better life – where hospitality is always a given, each detail is worth a second thought, and every open door is a new opportunity to go beyond expectations. We come to work every day to create possibilities for people – possibilities that translate into superior living spaces and experiences designed to inspire our residents, associates, and investors to live a better life focused on what matters most to them. 

Cortland is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud to support and celebrate diversity in the workplace. We are committed to equal consideration for all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a disability and need an accommodation or assistance with the application process and/or using our website, please email talentresources@cortland.com or call 404.965.3988. 

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