D&T Product Consultant - Product Management

About the Role

As a CBRE D&T Product Consultant, you will translate customer needs to the Agile team by properly codifying intent, sizing work efforts, and summarizing issues. This role is part of the Product Management function, responsible for planning, design, and implementation of products and product extensions throughout all lifecycle stages.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with designers, engineers, and business professionals to create strategic product roadmaps.
• Provide guidance by identifying and defining ongoing product features that align with business strategy.
• Assist the team in sizing and breaking down programs into manageable sizes to accommodate the release cadence.
• Draw upon customer insights to drive the software product vision and direction.
• Define software issues that technical teams can deliver basic solutions on.
• Introduce the customer to the technical teams and answer questions about expectations.
• Use general technical and product knowledge to prioritize deliverables and assist with tracking the backlog of product requests.
• Facilitate discussions, user story development and refinement, testing and validation.
• Document changes to features and communicate requirements for each release.
• Provide regular updates and assist with executive stakeholder communication and reporting.
• Apply in‑depth knowledge of standard principles and techniques to accomplish complex assignments and provide innovative solutions.
• Coach others and share knowledge across multiple disciplines within the function.
• Lead by example and model behaviors consistent with CBRE RISE values.
• Build consensus and persuade others to reach agreement.
• Impact a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities within own team and related teams.
• Work within broad guidelines and policies, and explain difficult or sensitive information.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred with 5–8 years of relevant experience; a combination of experience and education may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Ability to exercise judgment based on analysis of multiple information sources.
• Willingness to take a new perspective on existing solutions.
• In‑depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
• Strong organizational skills with an advanced inquisitive mindset.