Job Description

Senior Product Designer, Visual Lease & CoStar Real Estate Manager

Overview

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 Clients. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our Clients, 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 Clients, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

CoStar Real Estate Manager 

CoStar Real Estate Manager is the leading platform for lease accounting, lease administration and the management of portfolios, transactions, projects and construction. Clients use CoStar Real Estate Manager to make smarter decisions and to enable their team to work together more effectively. Learn more about CoStar Real Estate Manager. 

Visual Lease

As the centralized system of record for all lease-related financial, operational, and legal data, Visual Lease, a CoStar Group company, is purpose-built to support every team involved in managing a company’s leased and owned assets. Informed by nearly three decades of experience, our platform integrates lease management, lease accounting, and sustainability reporting, enabling organizations to save time, mitigate risks, reduce costs, and support sustainability initiatives. Our award-winning software is used by 1,500+ organizations to manage more than 1 million real estate, equipment, and other leased asset records globally.

About the Role

With the acquisition of Visual Lease, CoStar Real Estate Manager is in the beginning phases of an exciting journey of discovering how the two solutions will integrate. We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our growing team and be a valuable contributor in building something new. In this role, you will work closely with the product team through design iteration by incorporating internal and external stakeholder feedback.

You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy being hands-on and immersive; you look for opportunities to improve the way things work, and you have the drive to challenge the enterprise software status quo. If you are looking to shape the experience of the users of our software — to make things better for the user’s sake, not just for design’s sake, this is the place for you!

This position is located in Richmond, VA and is in office 5 days per week.

Responsibilities

· Produce designs with input from the product team to achieve the desired customer experience. Outputs include user flows, high fidelity wireframes, detailed mockups, and interactive prototypes.

· Act as the user advocate in cross functional teams with product managers, architects, and software engineers.

· Conduct or participate in user research and usability testing to validate assumptions, uncover insights, and inform design decisions.

· Create intuitive products that elevate the user experience using current best practices, design thinking, and user research.

· Collaborate with product managers, senior leaders, and other stakeholders to incorporate specific design requirements, visual treatment, and content structure.

· Manage multiple concurrent design projects at various levels of concept through production.

· Contribute to and help evolve design systems, patterns, and documentation.

· Provide informal mentoring, feedback, and design critique to improve team practices and outputs.

· Measure the success of design solutions through adoption, usability, and customer satisfaction.

Basic Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in person, university or college.

· 5+ years relevant design experience working with a product team.

· Experience working on the design and creation of complex workflows, atomic based design systems, and/or deep websites.

· The ability to conduct, interpret, and act on user research.

· Proficiency designing and prototyping in Figma.

· Effective communicator with the ability to understand and clarify requirements, design decisions, and stakeholder feedback.

· Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate cross-functionally.

· Track record of commitment to prior employers.

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience with workflow design principles/concepts.

· Familiarity with financial modeling and financial visualization concepts.

· Understanding of data model concept as it pertains to a specific business domain.

· Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

· Proactive self-starter who loves simplifying complex problems.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in 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

· Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family

· Commuter and parking benefits

· 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions

· Employee stock purchase plan

· Paid time off

· Tuition reimbursement

· On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes

· Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups

· Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
 
Base Compensation: $107,000.00 - $181,000.00 Annually

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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