Innovation Concept Manager (Remote)

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Unlock your Altus Experience!

If you’re looking to advance your career in data analytics, expertise, and technology for the rapidly growing global CRE market, there’s no better place than Altus Group. At Altus, our work is purposeful. Every day, our employees drive impact, innovate, and shape the global commercial real estate (CRE) and PropTech industry.

Our people-centric culture empowers you to deliver in a high trust, high performance culture, surrounded by an inclusive team that’s collaborating to modernize our industry. We invest in our people with training and growth opportunities designed to propel you further in your career while providing a flexible and progressive workplace that reflects our values and teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Concept Development & Validation

• As an Innovation Concept Manager at Altus, you will be part of a team dedicated to developing and validating new analytics-driven concepts through structured methodologies and customer research.

• Activities: Identify and validate analytics-driven concepts, test hypotheses, and assess feasibility/viability for the CRE market.

• Outputs: Documented concepts, feasibility/viability analyses, and validated business cases.

• Outcomes: Stronger alignment with market needs and reduced risk in product development through early validation of concepts.

Execution & Collaboration

• Activity: Lead structured workshops, drive feasibility/viability validation, and work with technical teams for Agile concept development and testing.

• Output: MVP roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, and documented stakeholder alignment.

• Outcomes: Faster iteration, reduced roadmap uncertainty, and improved cross-functional collaboration.

Early-Stage UX & Design Thinking

• Activities: Design workflows and create low-fidelity wireframes that balance usability, feasibility, and business value.

• Outputs: Visualized user journeys and usability testing artifacts.

• Outcomes: Increased user adoption confidence and minimized large-scale redesign.

Stakeholder Communication & Alignment

• Activities: Secure internal alignment, leadership endorsement, and funding for concept development; present findings and maintain ongoing stakeholder engagement.

• Outputs: Project update presentations, concept progress/status updates.

• Outcomes: Increased visibility and sustained stakeholder and executive buy-in.

​Customer & Market Feedback

• Activities: Conduct customer and stakeholder feedback sessions, validate concepts, and refine iterations. Collaborate with business and product teams to ensure findings drive further investment decisions.

• Outputs: Customer feedback analysis and data-backed iteration plans.

• Outcomes: Increased product-market fit and improved iteration cycles based on real-world validation.

Key Qualifications:

• A Facilitator & Leader: Skilled at guiding teams and aligning stakeholders through Lean Inception, Agile, or similar methodologies.

• A Product Thinker: Expertise in refining early-stage concepts and defining MVPs by breaking down complex ideas to balance business value, technical feasibility, and user needs.

• A Customer-Centric Researcher: Strong background in qualitative research, customer interviews, and product validation to ensure product ideas are data-backed and market-aligned.

• User-Focused: Experience with early-stage wireframing and usability testing.

• A Strong Communicator: Able to present complex concepts to executives, business teams, and developers to drive decisions and action.

• An Analytical & Strategic Decision-Maker: Strong problem-solving skills for evaluating feasibility, usability, and business value to make data-informed recommendations in ambiguous environments.

• An Adaptable Innovator: Comfortable iterating quickly and strategically adjusting direction based on new insights.

• 5+ years in product innovation, concept development, or early-stage product management.

• Hands-on experience with Lean Inception, Design Thinking, or structured innovation methodologies.

• Familiarity with Agile workflows, backlog management, and working with development teams.

• Experience with Commercial Real Estate (CRE) workflows, challenges, and decision-making is a plus.

• Understanding of data and analytics-driven products, AI/ML applications, and their impact on CRE is a plus.

What Altus Group offers:

• Rewarding performance: We are pleased to be able to provide employees competitive compensation, incentive and bonus plans, and a total rewards package that prioritizes their mental, physical and overall financial health. 
• Growth and development: As a destination for top industry talent, we’re investing in you to meet the evolving needs of our clients and deliver on your professional goals. Our Altus Intelligence Academy offers over 150,000 hours of learning materials catering to diverse stages of an employee’s career journey.
• Flexible work model: We’re modernizing our employee programs to reflect the new world of work. Our Activity-Based Work model provides you with flexibility to align your work location to the work being performed - office for connecting and collaborating, and remote for focused work.

Altus Group is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment where all clients and employees feel welcomed, accepted and valued. We provide an atmosphere free from barriers to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, and encourage equal opportunities for all employees. We’re seeking candidates with diverse experiences and provide accessible candidate experiences throughout the selection process. If you need accommodation, please contact us at accessibility@altusgroup.com or +1 888 692 7487.

We appreciate all applicants who take the time to apply to Altus Group. Please note that only those who are selected to move forward in the process will be contacted. Thank you.