Senior Product Manager, Public Record Data

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to createtruly uniqueand valuable offerings to our customers. We’vecontinually refined,transformedand perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliverforour customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.  

What We Are Looking For:

We are seeking atech savvyProduct Manager with deep public record dataexpertiseacross commercial real estate to builddata richfeatures that power the CoStar platform. You will own the roadmap for publicrecordsearchproductand public record datathat powers the CoStar product. Capabilitiesinclude dataingestion, normalization, linking, quality, anduser-facinganalyticsworking closely with Engineering, Research, Data Operations, Design, and GTM teams. This role will directly support CoStar’s expansion in New Homesand global expansion.

This position is located in Richmond, VA and is in office Monday through Friday.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Product Strategy & Roadmap 

• Define and drive the vision for Public Record data products used across CoStar modules (property, comps, owner/tenant, new construction). Buildmulti-quarterroadmaps thatexpand product capabilities, deliver new data sets, and unlock new analytics.

• Partner with internal stakeholdersto deliver outcomes(Research, Data Ops, Platform/ETL, BI/Analytics, Sales, and Marketing).

• Ability totranslate market needs into prioritized epics and measurable outcomes.

Data Ingestion, Quality & Compliance 

• Definerequirements for ingesting public records at scale (recording offices, assessors, permit/plan/exam systems, state portals, bulk vendors), including permits,plats, entitlements, certificates of occupancy, assessor/parcel and tax roll data, recorded documents (deeds, liens), and builder filings relevant to new construction.

• Specify normalization, entity resolution, survivorship, versioning, and data lineage standards; work with engineering to implement monitoring (SLAs, data drift, schema changes) andrulebased/ML quality checks (dedupe, outlier detection, referential integrity).

New Construction / New Homes

• Define data models and workflows that connect permits and plan reviews → starts → stages → COs → listings → sales/closings to deliver lifecycle visibility for subdivisions, phases, lots, and vertical construction across SFR, townhome,condo, andsmallmultisegments. 

• Partner with Design to deliver intuitive UX for builders, investors, brokers, and lenders—e.g., pipeline tracking, market share, absorption/velocity, pricing, incentives, and community amenities.

Delivery & Execution

• Author crisp PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and data contracts; manage backlog, ceremonies, and release plans.

• Coordinate with Platform, API, and Search teams to expose public record data safely and performantly for internal and external use cases.

• Launchfeatures withclear success metrics; produce release notes, enablement, and field training in partnership with GTM.

Stakeholder & Customer Engagement

• Conduct discovery withCoStar users (owners/investors, lenders, appraisers, brokers, developers/builders) tovalidateproblems andpressuretestsolutions.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ yearsof product management (or highly relevant platform/data product role) deliveringdataintensiveproducts at scale. 

• 3+ yearsworking withpublic record datasetsincommercial realestate—e.g., assessors/tax, recorder documents,permits/inspection/CO data, planning & zoning, land records, and subdivision/plat mapping.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person, University or College.

• Strong technical fluency: data modeling, APIs, event/data pipelines, basics of SQL; comfortable partnering with engineers on schemas, contracts, and SLAs.

• Clear, concise writing (PRDs, user stories) and strong stakeholder management.

• Priorworkin real estate,proptech, or public data providers.

• A track recordof commitment to prior employers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience aligning public record data with CRE taxonomies (property/parcel, unit/tenant, owner structures) and linkages to listings, comps, and ownership/portfolio modules. (Owner/portfolio context aligns with internal playbooks.) 

• Familiarity with entity resolution/ID graph design, geospatial concepts (parcel/lot, subdivision/phase), and address normalization.

• Background integratingthird-partyprovidersand working with jurisdictional variability, FOIA/open data processes, data usage rights, and PII governance.

• Exp