About Common
Common is the nation’s leading residential brand offering convenience and community through coliving and traditional apartments. Our signature tech-enabled property management allows us to deliver unparalleled experiences across 40+ buildings, 7 cities, and over 1,500 members. Common is the preferred choice for both residents looking for a stress-free and all-inclusive living environment, and for real estate owners seeking reliable, above-market returns. Launched in October 2015, we now operate homes in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. and receive over 15,000 new member applications per month.

It’s an exciting time to be part of Common’s team. We challenge ourselves every day not just to think about ways to make city living better, but to activate those ideas in meaningful ways. Our team is comprised of real estate professionals, designers, engineers, salespeople, marketers, client service representatives, and so much more. We work collaboratively, value self-starter ship, and embrace a “whatever it takes” mentality to ensure our work is done and done well. Common sits squarely at the intersection between technology and real estate, working every day to build quality residential solutions that bring positive change to the world’s rental housing crisis. 

Common was founded by Brad Hargreaves and has raised $65MM in venture funding. Brad is a visionary leader with vast experience in the technology and service space, previously founding the education company General Assembly.

To follow the latest Common news, get to know our community of residents, and learn about what it’s like to work at Common, you can follow us on Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter. To see more open roles and hear from Common employees check out our Careers Page. 

About the Role

Common is seeking a Product Manager for our Applications engineering team. The Applications team is responsible for delivering a best in class experience to our tenants and potential tenants. Everyone at Common thinks about and cares about the tenant experience, but your team will obsess over it. You will be responsible for influencing the vision, strategy, and execution of a team that builds and iterates on our tenant facing web and mobile software. Today that includes our web and mobile community applications, communication and engagement platforms, tenant onboarding workflows, conversion and marketing funnels, and public-facing websites. Our current digital product charter is to build software to support the next 100,000 tenants living in Common. Your objective will be to use technology to create a great tenant experience in a scalable and repeatable way.

The ideal candidate has experience product managing the creation of complex consumer-facing web and mobile applications. Our future PM is a strong communicator, technically savvy, has an eye for design, is driven by metrics, and is a product innovator. You believe in taking calculated risks and bringing data to the conversation. You are excited about rethinking the rental and tenant experience and already have ideas for how to make it better.

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with stakeholders and business executives/leaders to create products to boost engagement, streamline processes, increase operating throughput, and generate new streams of revenue
• Influence product direction, strategy, and execution
• Know your KPIs, product metrics, and acquisition metrics inside and out
• Work cross-functionally with engineering and product teams
• Prioritize and plan multiple projects, deadlines, and requests in parallel
• Ensure that your team is shipping high-quality products and continuously delivering value to the business
• & other ad hoc projects from time to time

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience product managing complex consumer or enterprise software products
• Passion for great UI/UX and building intuitive experiences
• Experience defining a long-term product or engineering strategy and roadmap
• A creative mind that thinks outside of the box
• Familiarity and comfort with analytics, statistical analysis, and multivariate testing
• Strong communicator, collaborator, and relationship builder
• A passion for Common and our mission to improve the way people live
• Emotional Intelligence
• Scrappy and resourceful problem solver
• A team player with a “can-do” attitude
• BA/BS Degree preferred

Bonus

• A background in computer science or software engineering
• An understanding of the technical challenges in end to end software development
• Familiarity with multiple software development life cycle philosophies

What We Offer

Common truly values our employees and wants to do everything to ensure that our employees are not only happy and professionally fulfilled, but also that they have the opportunity to be healthy. Because of this, we are committed to providing a number of affordable and valuable health and wellness benefits for our employees such as paid vacation and sick time, medical, dental and vision insurance, Company paid life insurance, Company paid STD/LTD, FSA + HSA options, commuter transit benefits, paid parental leave and a 401K. Additional benefits such as equity, paid holidays, a fully stocked kitchen, job training + development opportunities + a great wellness program are also available. And as always, we are regularly evaluating our offerings to ensure employees' needs are being met.

We are committed to affirmatively providing equal opportunity to all associates and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, legally protected physical or mental disability, military or veteran status or any other basis protected under applicable federal or state law.