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 —  in Texas, Colorado, and Georgia.

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

Our small but skilled content team creates content intended to make buying a home as simple and seamless as any other online purchase. As a team, we create content for everything from our website and email marketing to press releases and training materials. This particular role will focus on creating and editing the microcopy that appears in our web app as well as the agent and homebuyer dashboards. 

The perfect candidate is a problem solver who is passionate about plain language, digital behavior, and customer experience. You’re a learn-it-all — not a know-it-all — who will regularly consult our frontline employees and operations teams to identify opportunities to improve our user experience.

This role is not eligible to be performed from Colorado. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

In this role, you will

• Build confidence and trust with homebuyers throughout the onboarding process. 
• Write clear and concise copy that guides users through the Homeward approval experience; underwriting process, getting a mortgage quote, requesting an offer, creating contracts, and closing on a home. 
• Apply our content strategy from the earliest stages of product development to the product release.
• Enforce editorial consistency throughout the user journey. 
• Help agents who use our solutions feel empowered to guide their clients through the homebuying experience. 
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, researchers, product managers, marketing and sales team members, and subject matter experts. 
• Connect our business goals with our user’s needs.

What you’ll bring

• ​​2+ years of UX writing experience or excellent general writing and editing skills plus participation in a UXW course. UX writing is a relatively new field, so few people have deep on-the-job experience. If you’re a great writer and feel like your skills are transferable to UX writing, please apply.
• A basic understanding of content strategy and UX research.
• A commitment to cross-functional collaboration.
• The ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Deep empathy for our customers and partner agents. 
• A portfolio of UX writing samples. Please provide a pdf, Loom video, or something similar that showcases 3 to 5 UX writing projects. Bonus points for including a before and after of each. Don’t just show us what you did, explain how and why you did it. (Student projects and spec work are acceptable, so include them if they’re the best examples of your work.)

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.