Confidential Company

Head of Research & Investment Strategies

Confidential Company

Location
Seattle, United States
Experience
15+ Years
Position type
Permanent
Contract
Full time
Salary
Competitive

Description

Company

The company is a leading end-to-end investment platform for single-family rental homes (SFR), their mission is to make real estate investing radically accessible, cost effective, and simple. They successfully merge their passion for helping investors build wealth through real estate with cutting edge technology that transforms the way they do it.

With a talented team of 400+, their collaborative, can-do culture is what fuels their growth. Early last year they closed on their Series E, raising $240 million, and have offices in California, Texas, and New York as well as many remote opportunities. 

Role

As the Head of Research & Investment Strategies, you will build a high-standards research competency at the company and help its clients formulate and execute against the most compelling investment strategies in SFR. This is a high impact, high visibility role that helps accelerate the velocity of investments flowing through the company’s platform.

In this role you will own the research agenda in tight collaboration with the company’s Investment Services and Capital Markets teams and will develop significant authority internally and externally as an SFR expert. As such, you’d be expected to conduct ongoing monitoring and analysis of the overall investment environment and of SFR’s relative and absolute performance as well as produce regular outputs such as insights, white-papers, research studies, or data that can be used across the company, and externally, to articulate sound investment strategies and enhance their brand position in the SFR sector.

Responsibilities

    • Produce well-researched, customized investment strategies tailored to the needs of institutional investor clients and prospects.
    • Join sales discussions to understand prospective client needs and then research, package, present, and defend specific investment strategies to their CIO, investment committees, analysts, and/or data scientists.
    • Produce pre-packaged investment strategies for house funds that compel adoption by intermediaries such as RIAs.
    • Conduct market research to keep the company up to date on market trends and economic conditions.
    • Author and/or oversee the regular publishing of data, trends, research papers, etc. to support boosting the company’s brand authority and accelerating sales velocity.

Requirements 

    • Bachelor’s degree is required; master’s degree in finance, real estate or economics preferred.
    • A minimum of 15 years of experience, with several years working in a similar role.
    • Demonstrated success serving as the key influencer over an organization’s investment decisions (e.g., Investment Strategist, Head of Investment Strategy, Head of Research, Investment Portfolio Management or similar roles)

Benefits 

  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity incentives to give you a stake in the Company’s future
  • Medical, Vision and Dental for you (95%) and your dependents (70%)
  • 401k
  • Flexible time off and sick days.
  • An upbeat and collaborative work culture.
  • Virtual company-sponsored outings.

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