Job Description

Company Intro

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

HOMES.COM

Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com. Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company.

Learn more about Homes.com.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Do you possess experience managing and producing voice-over artist? Join us at Homes.com as we create premium content to support buyers, sellers, and real estate agents through all phases of the home purchasing process.

As a voice-over manager for Homes.com (a subsidiary of CoStar Group), you'll be part of a dynamic team that are crafting stories to give home buyers a street-level window into the lifestyle and vibe of neighborhoods, parks and schools throughout the country as they shop for their new homes; and you're helping agents grow their business by connecting them with new clients.

To succeed in this role, you'll need to be a critical thinker and a creative problem solver. You'll draw on previous experience in team and project management processes, commercial shoots, documentary-style storytelling, and marketing content to create engaging, persuasive, and entertaining visuals for all corners of Homes.com. Your team will record narratives that will support Homes.com video guides to help tell the story of what it would be like to live in a community. These guides provide invaluable help to families, individuals, real estate agents, owners, investors and more in discovering communities, making informed decisions, and navigating the dynamic landscape of residential real estate and beyond. Multiple rounds of changes and feedback are part of the job, so adaptability is a must.

CoStar Group has 20+ years of experience in leading digital marketplaces.

You'll be an integral part of our stellar team of writers, editors, and photographers striving to produce the best content in our industry. There's no place like Homes.com.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build a team of professional, experienced voice-over artists, provide mentoring and coaching to meet high quality standards.
• Create a style guide and set of standards that will allow the team to produce well-crafted narratives that compliments the produced video.
• Build a quality control process to ensure deliver meets or exceeds expectations.
• Ability to produce clearly articulated and engaging stories with quality equipment and clean audio up to broadcast standards.
• Demonstrate advanced equipment proficiency using a computer, professional high-quality microphones, audio interfaces, and digital audio workstations (ie. Pro Tools, Logic Pro, or Adobe Audition)
• Ability to collaborate on an assignment with a team of producers, photographers, video editors, writers, and editors.
• Manage multiple responsibilities, changing priorities, and excel in a fast-paced environment without missing deadlines.
• Ability to re-record readings quickly and on-brand according to brand and style guides.
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit University or College with
  • 2+ years of experience managing a team
  • 7+ years of professional VO experience, preferably for an agency, brand, or cable network as full-time staff or as preferred freelance talent.
• A track record of commitment to prior employees
• Portfolio of 5+ examples of 1–3-minute videos with voice-over clips preferred showcasing various reading styles.
• Leadership and management skills, including the ability to prioritize and control the workload of a team, coaching, and mentoring through professional development.
• Creative problem-solving, attention to detail, objectivity, and the ability to think strategically.
• Success in building strong, cohesive teams by leading and motivating towards action/execution through influence and collaboration
• Experience with creating effective KPIs and meeting performance metrics, being results-oriented
• Mastery of editing software (Primarily Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, or Adobe Audition) with the ability to edit/mitigate flubs, takes, breathes, and room tone.
• Proficiency with audio tools and effects (Equalizers, compressors/limiters, and noise reduction) as well as audio interfaces, microphones, mixing consoles, etc.
• Learn to read and edit content on brand and within style guides
• Proficient with MS Office applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Basic understanding of non-linear editing software (Primarily Adobe Premiere Pro)

What’s in it for you?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family

• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement

• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing