Director of Market Analysis and Communications; Seattle, WA
Redfin is looking for a director of market analysis and communications. The job is part PR, part program manager, part market analyst.
Your main responsibility is to develop Redfin as a major voice -- the truth-teller and the meticulous data scrubber -- in the conversation about real estate prices and trends. Your audience will be the press, but also our own team and our customers.
Real estate maven: you track the market & tour open houses just for fun. People you barely know ask you for real estate advice. Vulture, rubber-necker, baloney-detector, statistician, skeptic, enthusiast.
News junkie: you read everything, know everyone, comment everywhere, blog compulsively, write well. In the world of new media, you're a spectator and a participant.
Serious character: you're a person of substance -- not a meeting setter-upper -- with ideas of your own, an eagle eye for detail, a nose for numbers.
Storyteller: you know a good story when you see one, and you love to tell it and sell it -- to strangers, to skeptics, to anyone who will listen.
Architect: you think at scale about how to build programs and use technology. You can manage a team or work on your own.
Run the numbers: collaborate with engineering and product management to develop market insights programmatically, based on Redfin's proprietary, real-time database of homes for sale and homes that just sold.
Tell the world: develop new channels for propagating Redfin's real estate insights, creating new large-scale consumer events, developing local newsletters, briefing the field on monthly changes in market conditions.
Shoot the moon: build big stories based not just on business milestones and new website features, but on emerging trends, genuine personalities and new ways of doing business.
Work the room: build relationships with journalists, bloggers, customers, commenters, fanboys, gadflies.
Speak the truth to power: develop as an authoritative spokesperson in your own right, with reasoned opinions -- clearly identified as such -- and the facts & numbers to back 'em up.
Build a team: work at first with a virtual team of statisticians, marketers, engineers, executives; later bring on contractors, employees, even an agency to flood the zone.
Work with executives: developing Redfin as a media powerhouse gives you a seat at the table when major decisions go down.
Experience with traditional or new media, especially covering or building category-creating brands
Strong writing skills, and comfy with numbers too
Must have a strong academic record
To apply, please send a resume and brief cover letter to marketing.jobs@redfin.com. Use the words "Director of Market Analysis and Communication" in the subject line of the email.