Founded in October 2015, with headquarters in Seattle, WA, FlyHomes is a real estate and fintech company focused on making home buying seamless, transparent, and fun. Since the then, FlyHomes has continued to rapidly scale its team, focusing on helping buyers across Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, and new emerging marketplaces to purchase more than $300M in homes annually. 

The job: 

To date, FlyHomes has focused its efforts on changing the way people buy homes, quickly becoming the number one buyers-broker in the Seattle marketplace. As the Director of New Marketplace Launch, you will be responsible for launching FlyHomes in new marketplaces across the U.S. Although this role will be based out of our Seattle HQ, this key Leadership role will spend time in each new marketplace, building and developing a team, client base, and ensuring the new office is set up for success.

You will not only be on the front line of changing an industry, as the Director of New Marketplace Launch, you will be the responsible for our future success. Your role will be to launch, manage and expand FlyHomes real estate listing capabilities, build out an entirely new teams and client bases for the company, and define the future of real estate for the new marketplaces. This will be a high visibility role with huge potential. It will be fun, rewarding and very challenging. Are you a visionary looking to drive change? Do you love spending time in new cities? If so, this may be just the job for you.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Build out FlyHomes’ strategy for buying homes in new marketplaces.
• Build out a new office space, being the project manager on all things needed.
• Temporarily act as the General Manager for new marketplace, hiring and bringing the new local team up to speed on business and organization priorities, client service expectations, and company culture.
• Hire, train, and develop a local FlyHomes team, dedicated to operational excellence, ensuring that the culture and client experience is the same in all marketplaces.

• Establish operational, business, and client-focused activities that allow the marketplace to aggressively scale.

• Identify and solve problems on behalf of our team members, clients and the company.
• Build out repeatable and scalable buying capabilities.
• Work with the FlyHomes operations and marketing teams to drive awareness of our buying capabilities
• Uncover new-to-industry ideas and work with leadership to define new programs

Job requirements: 

• Ability to travel 80-100% of the time
• Inquisitive, smart and energetic visionary
• Unparalleled grit and love for taking on the difficult
• Phenomenal communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and find the right path forward
• Amazing organization and prioritization skills

• Experience leading teams of 10+ people across levels
• Deep understanding of metrics, reporting and analytics
• Unparalleled business judgment and critical thinking skills with the ability to use data to quickly establish priorities and develop a strategy to pursue them
• Executive presence that instills confidence in leadership and the team

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• 401(k) plan, 401(k) company-match, life-insurance
• Medical/dental/vision insurance packages to fit your needs
• Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time off when you need it

FlyHomes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.

FlyHomes, Inc. also participates in E-Verify. Upon hire, FlyHomes, Inc. will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S