About Homeward

Buying a home should be an exciting milestone. But all too often, it’s stressful, especially in a competitive market or when you’re buying and selling at the same time. So we’re redesigning the home-buying experience. We’re a fast-paced real estate startup that empowers agents to help homebuyers buy with cash. We buy homes on behalf of our partners’ clients with our cash, then the client buys the home back from us. 

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer two services — Buy with cash and Buy before you sell.

We’ve raised more than $160MM in equity capital from top-tier venture investors, including Norwest, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Adams Street, Javelin, and LiveOak. Our leadership team includes experts from the real estate, mortgage, and technology industries.

About the Opportunity

We're seeking a Senior Data Product Manager to help us build a simpler, more customer-centric home buying and selling experience in partnership with real estate agents. Reporting directly to our Sr Director, Product Management, you'll work closely with senior leadership, as well as the organization as whole, to define the needs and vision of a data platform to help Homeward scale our operations and data capabilities.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

In this role, you will:

• You’ll join a small product team and have an enormous impact on the company and our product by owning a new segment of our roadmap.
• Initially, you’ll be a bit of a data analyst, data engineer, and a data product manager rolled into one. You’ll define and develop canonical data definitions, help set up and maintain data pipeline infrastructure as well as reporting tools to help us organize and develop insights from our data.
• Craft a product vision and identify KPIs that keep our team focused and excited.
• Create detailed product requirements for engineering and collaborate closely with them during roadmapping, prioritization, and development.
• Help run regular backlog grooming meetings, test your features, and get them rolled out to internal and external customers in short cycle times so we can hit our ambitious business goals. 
• Be exceptionally outcomes-focused to ensure we’re always solving the most important problem. 
• Get up to speed on the residential real-estate industry and become well-versed in the  home buying, home selling, and home valuation processes. 
• Build upon good product management practices at Homeward and continue to help us adopt best practices around product prioritization and requirements reviews. 

What you’ll bring:

• You have 6+ years of product management experience  in a high-performance startup or technology company. 
• You’ve launched and iterated on multiple data products and have experience taking products from ideas to daily use by end users.
• You’re collaborative and open to feedback. You’re great at working as part of a team and love getting input on your roadmap and product requirements so you can continuously improve. 
• You’re able to ship quickly and adjust your process to fit the needs of an early stage startup. You create high-quality product requirements in short cycle times. You value shipping a good solution now over a great solution several weeks from now. At this stage of our company, we need to get our product in front of customers so we can continually iterate on it. 
• You’re interested in improving the complex, emotional process of buying and selling a home and making it the exciting milestone in people’s lives that it deserves to be.

Our Values

THE GOLDEN RULE
Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we follow The Golden Rule, treating others the way we want to be treated. It’s a simple rule, but it’s also significant: we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

CALM FOCUS
We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. So it’s important that we focus on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next. If something is out of scope, we say “No.” If something feels rushed, we pump the brakes. This calm focus helps us create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM
Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experience holistically, and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams. This approach extends to cooperation among our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage, and Homeward Title — and results in a better homebuying experience.