Product Manager, Darwin Homes
3 days a week in office
Next-gen property management platform
Job no longer available
Next-gen property management platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make residents and owners lives easier through an innovative ecosystem of technologies.
Role
Who you are
- Loves Darwin's mission of modernizing the antiquated experience of investing and renting
- Thrives while leading in a fast-paced, regularly changing environment. You turn chaos into order. People look to you for guidance when faced with challenges
- Is most comfortable when there’s too much to do. You aren’t easily overwhelmed and you prioritize tasks naturally. You’re not afraid to focus on one thing at a time when it’s needed
- Has high dynamic range. You are able to see the big picture but comfortable diving deep into the details. You’re not above rolling up your sleeves and doing the grunt work
- Loves great products. You are excited by thoughtful design and you appreciate attention to detail and fine craft
- Shows confidence and humility. You’re able to make fast decisions with the wisdom to change course as soon as it’s needed
- Is able to collaborate with a diverse group of individuals. You naturally communicate context and you demonstrate strong reasoning behind decisions
- At least 3+ years of product management experience ideally at a B2B business
- Analytical and data-driven. Motivated to measure impact using both metrics and qualitative user feedback
- Excellent verbal communicator and writer. Understands the need for documentation to drive alignment and a shared understanding across teams
- Prior real estate, and property management experience (recommended)
- Experience leading cross-functional teams of designers, engineers, and product managers to success
- A track record of delivering great user experiences that lead to great business results
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills
What the job involves
- Work with your engineering, design and ops partners to establish a roadmap and shared set of priorities across the team and the company
- Be responsible for accelerating the growth and engagement of Darwin's business units
- Own and monitor product-level KPIs, iterating post-launch to drive greater impact
- Document decisions to allow for broader company learning and iteration opportunities
Our take
Single-family rentals are an attractive investment opportunity and asset class in the US, but the management process of these property rentals can pose challenges. Ownership is typically fragmented; it's difficult to discover a reliable property manager, and the overall experience often results in all involved parties being left with a feeling of lack of trust and transparency.
Darwin Homes provides proprietary property management software that specializes in solving historic challenges in the single-family rental industry. The platform is provided to high-quality and transparent local property managers, with the software tools helping the manager to stay on top of duties, find tenants, and ultimately streamline their investment.
Many property management platforms already exist, but Darwin Homes' specialization in single-family rentals presents huge potential to make a lucrative but complicated industry more efficient. The company has expanded out from serving property managers in Texas and Ohio to other states across the US, and in 2023 was acquired by Pagaya - which "evaluated many players" in the space, but ultimately found Darwin "the best and most differentiated by a substantial margin".
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2021
$4.6m
EARLY VC
Jan 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $23.6m
Company benefits
- Hybrid/remote options
Company HQ
East Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX
Leadership
Ryan Broderick
(CEO)They started their career as a Marketing Manager at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, before 3 years as Operating Partner of The National Resort Group. They spent 3 years at DoorDash before co-founding Summit Health in 2017 and Darwin Homes the following year.
Zachary Kinloch
(Product & Growth)Having studied at Stanford, they spent 2 years at Morgan Stanley before working at TPG Capital and LinkedIn for a combined 4 years. They served as Director of Growth at DoorDash and a Facebook Data Science Manager before co-founding Darwin Homes in October 2018.
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