Product Manager, Content Platforms

Product Manager, Content Platforms

Job Description

CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, 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 create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We've continually refined, transformed and 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 deliver for our 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're looking for a Product Manager to help evolve the systems, workflows, and tools that enable teams to publish efficiently at scale, as our global content operations continue to expand. CoStar Group's content platforms power news and editorial experiences across a growing portfolio of brands, including CoStar News, Homes.com, and LoopNet.

In this role, you'll own and improve the platforms that support hundreds of internal users across editorial, research, and content teams. You'll partner closely with engineering, journalists, editors, and stakeholders across brands to streamline publishing workflows, improve platform usability, and help scale our content infrastructure for future growth.


This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career product manager who enjoys solving operational and workflow challenges, collaborating cross-functionally, and building systems that support high-impact user experiences behind the scenes.


This role helps power the infrastructure behind content experiences used across CoStar Group's portfolio of brands and international markets. You'll play a key role in improving how content teams operate at scale while gaining hands-on experience in platform product management, stakeholder collaboration, and workflow optimization within a fast-moving product organization.


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


RESPONSIBILITIES:


Platform Operations & Product Execution

• Partner with Lead News PM, Design, and engineering teams to support and improve content platform functionality and workflows
• Help manage and prioritize platform enhancements, bugs, and operational issues
• Write product requirements, organize backlog items, and support feature delivery through implementation and QA
• Monitor platform performance and identify opportunities to improve publishing efficiency and user experience
• Coordinate with vendors and internal stakeholders to support ongoing platform enhancements

Workflow & Platform Optimization

• Improve and standardize editorial workflows across brands and teams
• Support taxonomy and content organization initiatives to ensure scalable, consistent publishing structures
• Identify recurring pain points and propose process or tooling improvements
• Help support international expansion efforts, including localization and multi-market publishing readiness

User Enablement & Stakeholder Partnership

• Serve as a product partner for journalists, editors, researchers, and content teams
• Gather feedback, understand user needs, and translate workflows into product recommendations
• Create documentation, training materials, and self-service resources
• Facilitate training sessions and office hours to support platform adoption and best practices

Strategic Initiatives

• Support larger platform initiatives and evaluations, including CMS and publishing workflow improvements
• Contribute research, stakeholder feedback, and operational analysis to help inform product strategy and long-term platform decisions

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person, University or College.
• 1-3 years of experience in product management, digital operations, CMS platforms, content tools, or related cross-functional environments
• Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering, editorial, and business stakeholders
• Curious, proactive, and eager to learn complex systems and workflows
• Ability to think systematically and identify opportunities to improve processes at scale

• A track record of commitment to prior employers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with CMS platforms, publishing tools, or workflow management systems is a plus
• Familiarity with Agile product development processes is a plus

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU:


Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines.


In addition to generous compensation and performance-based incentives, you'll be supported in both your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.


Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug

• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance

• Commuter and parking benefits

• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement
• Access to CoStar Group's Employee Resource Groups

• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent)

• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, prepared foods, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.


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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing