Product Manager
24 days ago
Dallas
Job DescriptionBellwether is a global advisory firm that helps businesses solve their most complex challenges and enhance enterprise value. We specialize in formulating and executing dynamic growth strategies through true partnership with our clients. Merging deep industry expertise, advanced analytical capabilities and best-in-class talent, we create value across the business lifecycle, from transaction management to operational transformation. Bellwether specializes in the management, analysis, and reporting of over $40 billion of AUM across a wide range of real estate related assets and corporate platforms in North America, Europe and Asia. Bellwether is privately held and has offices in Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Salt Lake City, London and Dallas. OverviewBellwether is seeking a Product Manager to own and evolve a portfolio of products used by both internal teams and external users. Reporting directly to the Head of Technology, this role is based in Dallas, TX and sits at the intersection of technology, operations, and business strategy. You will partner closely with asset management, underwriting, servicing, and other internal teams to understand workflows, translate business needs into product direction, and ensure strong adoption through training, documentation, and enablement. The role requires comfort working with data-intensive platforms and business-critical systems, while applying practical, user-centered discovery and usability principles to ensure solutions are intuitive and effective. Candidates must have current U.S. work authorization; sponsorship is not available.Candidates must be based in Dallas, TX. Relocation will not be considered. Key Responsibilities • Product Strategy and Ownership, • Define and maintain product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with Bellwether’s technology and business objectives, • Prioritize initiatives across competing internal and external needs, balancing speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability, • Own product requirements and user stories, ensuring clarity for engineering, analytics, and design partners, • Incorporate lightweight discovery and validation, such as stakeholder interviews and workflow mapping, to inform product decisions, • Internal and External Customer Engagement, • Serve as the primary product partner to internal stakeholders, including asset management, underwriting, servicing, and operations, • Support products that serve both internal users and external clients, ensuring consistency, security, and usability across audiences, • Gather and synthesize feedback from internal users and external customers to inform product direction and enhancements, • Translate complex workflows into clear product requirements, collaborating with engineering and design resources to ensure solutions fit real-world use cases, • Training, Adoption, and Enablement, • Lead product training efforts to drive adoption across internal teams, • Develop and maintain enablement materials such as walkthroughs, documentation, dashboards, and release communications, • Partner with business leaders to ensure tools are effectively rolled out and embedded into day-to-day workflows, • Track adoption and usage metrics and proactively address gaps in engagement or understanding, • Ensure features are delivered with clarity and ease of use, minimizing training overhead and support burden, • Delivery and Execution, • Collaborate closely with engineering and data teams to plan, scope, and deliver enhancements across analytics, workflow, and reporting platforms, • Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release coordination, • Use simple wireframes or low-fidelity prototypes as needed to align stakeholders and accelerate delivery, • Ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, and aligned with enterprise data standards, • Measurement and Continuous Improvement, • Define success metrics and KPIs related to usage, adoption, operational efficiency, and business impact, • Use data and stakeholder feedback to continuously improve products and processes, • Identify opportunities to reduce manual workflows and improve decision-making through better data access and tooling Professional Experience & Qualifications, • Qualifications, • 3+ years of experience in product management, preferably in financial services, commercial real estate, asset management, or adjacent industries, • Experience supporting internal business users while also delivering externally facing products or platforms, • Working knowledge of data and analytics platforms such as Salesforce, Tableau, Sigma, SQL, and Databricks, • Comfort partnering with data engineering, analytics, and technology teams to define requirements and validate outputs, • Familiarity with basic UX and usability concepts and comfort collaborating with design resources using Figma, • Strong ability to translate complex financial and operational workflows into intuitive product solutions, • Demonstrated success driving adoption through training, enablement, and change management, • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders, • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, Dallas-based environment, • What You’ll Gain, • Direct partnership with senior technology leadership, • Ownership over products that materially impact investment, operational, and reporting workflows, • Exposure to complex, data-driven decision environments across global real estate portfolios, • A collaborative, high-accountability environment with meaningful growth opportunitiesEducation/Certification, • Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology, or a closely related technical field — required., • Candidates with an MBA must also hold an undergraduate technical degree (as above) or demonstrate equivalent, verifiable hands-on technical experience (5+ years) in data platforms, integrations, or engineering-facing roles. An MBA alone will not satisfy the minimum education requirement., • Relevant certifications (CBAP, PMP/Agile, cloud/data platform certificates) are a plus.Essential Skills & Competencies, • Bellwether seeks to hire entrepreneurial individuals who are highly motivated, mature and intelligent, with demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. The successful candidate should have:, • Job Knowledge & Technical Ability: Development and analysis of real estate-based financial models with a focus on multifamily, office, and industrial assets. Ability to build out a complex financial model from scratch including waterfalls and various debt structures. Ability to read and analyze investment, lease, and management agreements., • Initiative & Dependability: Ability to perform responsibilities independently and proactively, solve problems, and improve processes and/or services. Self-directed, takes initiative and responsibility, ensures completion of tasks., • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong listening and interpersonal skills. Highly effective at preparing and presenting information., • Professionalism & Teamwork: Acts with honesty and integrity and maintains confidentiality, adheres to company policies. Promotes a collaborative and productive work environment. Demonstrates team building, support and respect. Travel Requirements, • Local and/or nationwide travel to assets and client sites required on an as-needed basis (approximately 1–3 times per quarter, depending on project needs). Position Details, • Classification: Exempt, • Position Status: Regular / Full Time, • Reports To: Head of Technology, • Direct Reports: NoPhysical and Mental Demands, • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, and walk. Must be able to sit at an office workstation for an extended period of time. May need to reach, stoop, or kneel to access items., • Must be able to talk, hear and use wrists, hands and/or fingers frequently and repetitively to operate a computer, telephone and other office productivity machinery., • Must frequently prepare or inspect documents, and convey details or important instructions or ideas accurately, loudly, or quickly., • Ability to work independently, and prioritize duties to ensure timely completion. The ability to collaborate is also imperative., • Requires active listening, critical thinking, making decisions, time management, as well as administration skills., • Ability to interact in a courteous professional manner at all times., • Regular, predictable attendance is required., • The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.Work Environment, • No hazardous or significantly unpleasant conditions (such as in a typical office)., • Moderate noise (i.e., business office with computers, phones, printers and light traffic), • Indoor business office environment with windows; light foot traffic within work areas, • The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a teammate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Benefits, • We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:, • Employer-paid Medical, Dental & Vision, with buy-up options available, • Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, • Carrot Fertility Benefit - $10,000 lifetime benefit, • 401k company match 4%, immediately vested, • Generous PTO, 11 Paid Company Holidays & Paid Holiday Office Closure, • 14 weeks Maternity Leave & 12 weeks Parental Leave, • Wellbeing program offerings, • Cell phone reimbursement