Product Solutions Manager - Odevo

About Odevo

We are on a mission to become the leading force in residential property management services. The global residential property management industry is currently undergoing a digital transformation and Odevo is at the forefront of this transformation. Our mission is to radically simplify living for families and individuals by delivering highly attractive and efficient property management services to building owners and associations as well as to residents. Our core belief is that digital technology combined with great people will play a central role in delivering a step change in how boards and residents experience property management.

What we do matters to billions of people across the world. Residential real estate is the world’s largest asset class and buying a home is often the biggest investment a person or family will ever make. But the residential property management industry is lagging behind when it comes to customer focus and digitalization. That is why we formed Odevo.

Leading property management companies in the Nordics, UK, and US have already joined forces to form Odevo and over the last 4 years Odevo’ s revenues have grown 40-fold to become a leading international player. Our ambition is to continue to grow rapidly organically and by attracting additional companies to join us in both existing and new markets.

We deliver our property management services with custom developed software to simplify living and make life easier for property owners, association boards, residents and very importantly our own property management professionals. We make complex topics such as managing property finances and the daily maintenance of buildings easy, and we automate time-consuming everyday tasks so people can spend more time on things that they really enjoy.

We are a 5,000-employee company with a start-up mentality. We aspire to break new ground through innovation, and we actively cultivate a workplace where we can grow as individuals and have fun while achieving great things together.

To continue our ambitious growth journey, we are now looking for people who share our vision to join us on a journey that will continue to transform the property management industry on a global scale. 

About the role

This isn’t a straightforward product role. Yes, you will be thinking about user requirements, business problems and how to solve them with technology, but the difference is you’ll also be working out how to improve the business with other people’s technology too.

An important part of your focus will be strategically managing key vendor partnerships. This includes working with the business to understand their longer-term business objectives, and ensuring our third-party partners will deliver what we need as part of their product roadmaps.

You‘ll also develop an up-to-the-minute understanding of the competitive landscape to partner across our Product team on strategic product decisions. This includes understanding the landscape in the Property Management product and technology space, as well as for adjacent solutions needed to enable Property Management, such as insurance, safety, IoT, and AI.

Since you’ll be managing a select portfolio of third-party applications, as well as contributing your knowledge of the competitive landscape to inform build vs buy decisions, you’ll need to apply your understanding of how these two approaches will work together. You’ll be doing this in a very complex domain, where there are multiple levels of end user: inside our business, our partner’s business, our clients’ businesses, and our client’s customers. You'll focus on key components of our diverse software portfolio across our US companies, which currently includes KW Property Management & Consulting, Spectrum Association Management, William Douglas Property Management, and CAS, but is likely to grow as more companies join the Odevo group.

You’ll gain a comprehensive and analytical view of our complex domain and the various software solutions, to advise on strategic decisions and effectively guide implementation efforts that deliver maximum value to both our business and customers.

Responsibilities

• Shape partner technology strategy that will contribute to driving Odevo’s digital transformation in property management.

• Become an expert in the US market and competitive property management products and adjacent solutions.

• Analyze internal and external platforms to identify and recommend improvement opportunities.

• Manage software relationships with key strategic partners, ensuring strategic and roadmap alignment to maximize Odevo's value from partnerships.

• Evaluate and recommend strategic software partners based on domain expertise and market fit.

• Provide input to and support the execution of Odevo's M&A strategy, including technology capability acquisitions.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to guide the implementation of innovative solutions.

• Contribute to defining Odevo's broader product vision and strategy with a forward-looking approach.

• Engage with internal and external customers to gather requirements and insights for product enhancement.

• Measure the performance of launched product capabilities and continuously seek opportunities to improve customer value and experience.

Who you are

If you are analytical and passionate about identifying opportunities to optimize complex technology ecosystems, you may find this a rewarding challenge. As a key player enabling our strategic vision, you will gain exposure across the entire business while thriving in a complex role that spans from high-level direction to hands-on implementation support. You approach your work with passion and humility, embracing challenges as an opportunity to optimize value through partnerships internally and externally. You will need to be:

• Humble team player: Unpretentious, people-oriented, and always prioritize team success over individual glory.

• Entrepreneurial: View problems as opportunities to create value, think beyond the status quo, and proactively drive tasks to completion.

• Bold: Overcome obstacles with determination, thrive in a highly committed, demanding, and rapidly changing hyper-growth environment.

• Curious: Passionate about learning, continuously developing yourself and others, and improving processes.

• Effective: Utilize structure and order, prioritize tasks effectively, and independently drive multiple assignments while setting ambitious goals.

Experience

• At least five years of experience shaping complex product strategies and roadmaps to deliver solutions that effectively meet business objectives.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or related field.

• Background as a Product owner, Product manager or business analyst

• Experience directly managing relationships with multiple external vendors.

Excited?  

Get in touch! We look forward to receiving your application!