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Job Description

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Overview

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 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.

Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com. Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company.

Learn more about Homes.com.

Our Irvine, CA team is seeking an accomplished Senior Technical Business Analyst to join our team in supporting the supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization, such as www.homes.com and www.homesnap.com. You will have a direct impact on highly visible Homes web applications that touch millions of users. You continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve Homes’ software products

This position is located in Irvine and offers the following hybrid schedule option:

• 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions between product managers, technical managers, and user experience designers to gather requirements to build market-leading consumer web products.
• Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions
• Facilitate meetings with business stakeholders and product management to help build project charters, business processes, and business process activities.
• Gather business requirements and break them down into relevant, accurate, detailed, and consumable user stories that can be developed within an agile scrum framework.
• Write detailed Acceptance Criteria in the form of Behavior Driven Development scenarios for User Stories that can be understood by business stakeholders, software developers, and quality assurance analysts.
• Facilitate technical design meetings between different technical managers to help gather and document their technical solutions to the business problems for which you are defining requirements.
• Foster a high-level understanding of technical solutions so you can explain the solution to developers and Quality Assurance (QA) analysts.
• Participate in backlog refinement sessions with a scrum team to help explain and answer questions so they can accurately story point the delivery effort.
• Perform end-to-end User Acceptance Testing
• Work closely with the product manager and technical manager to help create and shape release plans.
• Review automation tests and quality assurance test cases to ensure they cover the relevant business scenarios.
• Work with product managers to help define their key performance indicators (KPI) for new initiatives.
• Be able to analyze and collect KPI metrics and reporting to be delivered to the product manager so they can report on the progress and success of their products and initiatives to senior management.
• Provide input and feedback on product roadmaps.
• Work with UX designers to help refine prototypes and/or high-fidelity mockups based on requirements you have gathered.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of Product, Systems, or Business analysis experience
• 2+ years of Product Owner experience is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, MIS, computer science, or other related technical field.
• This role is highly self-directed. Being capable of driving outcomes with very little supervision is a must.
• Software coding experience background is a plus.
• Occasionally, creating wireframes in a tool such as Visio is required for this role.
• Agile/Scrum experience is required

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Previous project management experience is a plus
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) is a plus
• Understanding of relational data models and be comfortable writing basic SQL is a plus.

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, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

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 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, 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 Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

This position offers a base salary range of $97,000-$148,000, based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan.

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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