Learning and Development Manager (Sales)

About Homeward

Homeward takes the “what ifs” out of homebuying by creating financial products that give buyers and sellers certainty and convenience. We’re a fast-paced, remote-first real estate startup that partners with real estate agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move, regardless of the market.

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018 to fix the antiquated and broken real estate process. Today, we offer bundled cash offers, mortgage, and title services in 13 states, enabling buyers and sellers to move with certainty and convenience.

We’re a fully remote company with a diverse team spread across several countries - Grounded in three core values: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus. Hear from our employees about what our values mean to them.

About the opportunity 

As a Learning and Development Manager at Homeward, you'll work with the Sales department to improve productivity and happiness across the sales team as well as our key external partners. This role will focus on educating and training key agents to ensure all key partnerships understand the process from start to finish. This role will also be responsible for ongoing training for internal sales team members in an every evolving market within a scaling business

The ideal candidate is a proactive self-starter with experience in L&D across dynamic environments (start-ups preferred). If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are excited about making a tangible impact in real estate, we’d love to hear from you.

Note: This role may require travel throughout the United States.

In this role, you will:

• Build and execute a comprehensive learning and development strategy to empower external real estate agents and internal sales team members across our partner network. Key focus areas include: 
• Needs Analysis: Identifying training and development needs based on agent feedback, organizational goals and evolving market trends
• Program Development: Designing and developing training programs, resources/content, and tools tailored to help agents and teams succeed.
• Program Delivery: Facilitating engaging training sessions and workshops for agents whether in-person or online. 
• Evaluation and Assessment: Measuring the effectiveness of training programs and making improvements from the feedback from agents and stakeholders.
• Collaboration: Working with stakeholders, including HR, management, and employees, to ensure alignment, adoption, and impact..
• Create training material/content and resources in a centralized training repository to ensure content is up-to-date.
• Lead onboarding and continuous education to equip new and existing agents and internal sales team members with knowledge, tools, and confidence to represent our products and grow their business.
• Work closely with Sales leadership and partners to identify ongoing training/education needs and develop scalable solutions, and reinforce best practices across the agent community.

What you'll bring

• 4+ years of experience in workforce training, learning & development, instructional design, or sales operations role
• Strong presentation, stakeholder engagement, and leadership skills.
• Proven ability to analyze data and assess training effectiveness.
• Experience managing training programs in a corporate or industrial setting.
• Project management skills to oversee multiple initiatives effectively.
• Experience in a start-up/fast paced environment or real estate or Sales is a plus

Pay & Benefits:

• Compensation base range: $90,000 - $100,000
• Remote-first environment (our Headquarters are in Austin, TX)
• Exciting stock option grant for every full-time employee 
• 401(k) employer contribution match 
• Health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Twenty days of vacation, five sick days, twelve company holidays, and two floating holidays each year
• Generous paid parental leave of up to 14 weeks

See more about how Homeward takes care of our team by providing a generous package of benefits here.

Value-Driven Employee Experience

THE GOLDEN RULE. It’s simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, 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. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.