General Manager, Homeward
$120-135k
+ stock options
Home finance company
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Home finance company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-135k
+ stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build innovative home finance solutions to overcome the limitations of the traditional mortgage.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience, ideally in a startup, fast-paced environment, or within the real estate industry
- Proven ability to thrive in ambiguous or uncertain environments and adapt quickly to change
- Strong understanding of financial outcomes in real estate, including comfort with financial statements and data-driven decision-making
- Strategic thinker with strong operational execution; able to balance long-term vision with day-to-day performance
- Demonstrated leadership ability, with experience unifying and aligning high-performing cross-functional teams toward shared outcomes
- Excellent project and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to navigate complex workflows and priorities
- Executive presence and exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Skilled in identifying complex problems, uncovering root causes, and developing targeted solutions
- Familiar with real estate market trends, risk management strategies, and portfolio optimization across diverse regions
- Track record of driving process improvement and scalable operations in high-volume environments
- Ability to coach and influence partners while maintaining focus on timelines, customer experience, and profitability
What the job involves
- Homeward is looking for a General Manager to proactively manage and oversee a large portfolio of homes held in inventory. This position, which includes full P&L ownership, is responsible for making both reactive and proactive decisions to drive profitability and mitigate inventory losses on individual properties
- The GM plays a critical role in both the day-to-day and strategic management of the portfolio, including both acquisitions and dispositions. The GM will guide key strategic decisions around pricing and home valuations, balancing sell-through risk with revenue targets and driving conversion to support acquisition goals
- After the home is purchased, the GM will drive sell through of portfolio, including making adjustments to listing strategies, ensuring all homes meet our listing quality standards, and approving spend for renovations, repairs, and property maintenance.The General Manager serves as the ultimate decision maker of financial budgets ensuring that each home and the portfolio is managed with a profitability-first mindset
- Success in this role means consistently ensuring enough high quality homes are purchased into the portfolio and selling the majority of homes for a profit and in a timely manner, while minimizing loss-making sales. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role that collaborates closely with teams across sales, operations, finance, and pricing
- Report directly to the Senior Director of Financial Operations
- Own a portfolio of Homeward’s inventory, spanning multiple products, regions, and partner relationships, from the point of acquisition approval through final sale
- Hold full P&L ownership of your portfolio, staying close to each property to ensure expenses are tightly managed and profitability targets are met
- Serve as the final decision maker on purchase offers, balancing overall inventory risk while ensuring we acquire homes that support our revenue and sell-through goals
- Develop deep expertise in Homeward’s inventory management playbook and apply it to proactively address at-risk files, tailoring strategy by property and situation
- Adjust listing strategy and execution as needed to improve performance and reduce days on market
- Approve spend on property renovations, repairs, and maintenance in line with ROI expectations
- Ensure all homes meet Homeward’s listing quality standards before going to market
- Make strategic pricing and valuation decisions in partnership with internal teams to balance sell-through risk with profitability
- Drive conversion through smart acquisition strategy aligned with broader business and revenue goals
- Monitor risk across the portfolio and maintain visibility into higher-risk properties, intervening with strategic plans when necessary
- Use financial outcomes and market feedback to continuously assess and inform decision-making
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Deal Structuring, Finance, and Operations to ensure seamless execution
- Coach and guide operations partners to improve valuation accuracy, acquisition execution, listing performance, and resolution of escalated decisions
- Ensure Operations teams are executing against tight timelines across all stages of the transaction lifecycle — from property acquisition and make-ready, through listing and going under contract, to final sale
Our take
Sellers historically favour more dependable all-cash purposes, but few are in a position to offer them. Moreover, nobody favours the drawn-out choreography of timing one’s home sale with a new home purchase. Homeward allows customers to make all-cash purchases on new homes through the company, which buys on their behalf and sells to the customer once they’ve closed on their existing home.
By providing a seamless experience under three companies, it is a comprehensive service covering the home-buying process from start to finish. Homeward's solution is elegant, and proving hugely popular - it is currently oversubscribed in markets across the country. It’s a new, innovative development in a legacy industry in dire need of change.
Importantly, Homeward is attractive to investors, and the Austin-based company is no doubt additionally cashing in on the increased VC interest in the growing Texas tech scene. Further, following its success in the Texas, Georgia, and Colorado markets, Homeward is planning to go nationwide with its real estate solution. It has already extended to Florida and Arizona, and looks to conquer more states in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2021
$136m
SERIES B
May 2020
$20m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $160m
Company benefits
- Every full-time member of our team gets an equity grant. We all own a piece of our success
- In addition to 12 company holidays and two floating holidays, our team members enjoy 20 days of vacation and can rest easy with five sick days
- Homeward employees have medical, dental, vision, and counseling coverage
- New human in the house? You’ll get up to 14 weeks of paid leave as a primary caregiver and up to seven weeks as a secondary caregiver
- We can’t see the future, but we can help you be smart about it with life and accident insurance as well as a 401K match
Company HQ
Lost Creek, TX
Leadership
Tim Heyl
(Founder & CEO)Tim studied Finance and Real Estate at Texas A&M. He also founded Mint Title, Phone Animal and The Heyl Group.
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