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Urban Compass

Frontend Engineer

• Act as the primary technical leader for your domain and work directly with executive leadership
• Oversee and mentor multiple engineering teams, orchestrating their efforts to deliver impactful solutions
• Collaborate with Product and Design counterparts to translate concepts into tangible products
• Promote a collaborative culture that encourages innovation and creativity

Director of Client and UI Engineering

Backend Engineer

• Lead Strategic Direction: Spearhead the technical and strategic direction of Compass's mobile platform, collaborating closely with executive leadership to align with company goals and market trends
• Drive Innovation: Champion innovation initiatives and work collaboratively with product and design leaders to swiftly translate ideas into tangible customer value, ensuring a competitive edge in the market
• Talent Acquisition and Development: Take the lead in recruiting, onboarding, and nurturing top engineering talent, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the organization
• Team and Project Management: Provide oversight to multiple engineering teams and managers, guiding them in delivering high-quality solutions that meet customer needs while fostering career development and job satisfaction among team members
• Promote a Collaborative Culture: Cultivate a positive team culture that encourages collaboration, creativity, and innovation, fostering an environment where diverse perspectives are valued and respected
• Technical Expertise and Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry best practices, driving adoption where appropriate to ensure the mobile platform remains at the forefront of innovation and efficiency
• Operational Excellence: Advocate for and uphold high standards of operational excellence, ensuring code quality, testing automation, observability, scalability, and maintainability are prioritized throughout the development lifecycle
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and address bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the development process, implementing strategies to optimize developer experience and increase productivity
• Performance Management: Set clear goals and expectations for team and individual performance, working collaboratively with employees to establish measurable objectives and commitments that align with organizational goals
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a liaison between engineering teams and other stakeholders, effectively communicating progress, challenges, and opportunities to ensure alignment and transparency across the organization

Director of Mobile Platform Engineering

Engineering Manager

• Work in a startup-like environment focused on rapid iteration in building agile products and services
• Foster a positive team culture, and provide leadership that encourages collaboration and innovation
• Supervise senior and junior engineers on your team to ensure timely, quality, delivery of customer-facing features
• Hire and onboard engineers at all levels, junior to senior
• Collaborate with your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
• Evaluate and understand the technical trade offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
• Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects
• Advise on strategic and tactical matters pertaining to the future of the company’s mobile platform, including roadmap development, resource allocation, and technology adoption
• Advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
• Hold yourself and your team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
• Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
• Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
• Provide career guidance and performance management to a workforce of highly skilled engineers
• Mentor engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence

Legal

• Manage Compass’ data privacy management tool handling consumer access requests
• Develop improvements to privacy impact assessments, incident response playbooks, and other privacy-related processes at Compass
• Exercise judgment within defined procedures to determine appropriate action, including, but not limited to, identifying issues that require the input of other Legal Team members and taking steps to escalate these matters appropriately
• Help with the development and implementation of processes for efficient and streamlined operations, including work flow between the Legal Team and other teams at Compass

Privacy Paralegal

Security Engineer

• Design a comprehensive IAM strategy and policies aligned with the organization's security posture, business goals, and regulatory requirements.
• Design and manage user attribute schemas and attributes, ensuring they accurately reflect business requirements, compliance needs, and security considerations.
• Oversee user lifecycle, including provisioning, deprovisioning, and modification of user accounts, ensuring timely and accurate access management in alignment with security best practices.
• Stay updated on emerging IAM trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Design, implement, and build new security controls to keep the enterprise technologies secure and reliable.
• Help build the foundational security principles used to support our rapidly growing agent population.
• Implement new solutions to thwart account takeovers and business email compromise.
• Evaluate the security properties and risks of 3rd-party systems and services that we would integrate into our enterprise environment. Provide architecture and design reviews as needed.
• Conduct regular security assessments on controls and applications to iterate and improve the security posture
• Provide security guidance, resources, tooling, and support Compass's continued growth into new markets.
• Partnering with the Detection and Response team to assist with the selection of corporate focus areas for detection and development of workflows and documentation for response.
• Ensure our team members are empowered to work in safe-by-default environments across all enterprise technologies: SaaS applications, Corporate Endpoints, Office Networks, Business Intelligence & Data Intelligence Tools to name a few.

Staff IAM Security Engineer 

Product Designer

• First and foremost be responsible for making incredible creative work on behalf of our customer, the real estate agent
• Create compelling brand and listing projects from concept to completion for agent marketing
• Design brand and property identities for agents, including logos while also working alone or in a group for scalable design systems for brand initiatives
• Design print collateral, books, print ads, billboards, and digital ads
• Move fast to interpret creative briefs from our Creative Producer and/or Marketing Advisors to deliver high-quality work that meets the brief’s goals and timelines
• Manage the quality of design throughout all phases for a variety of project types and brand campaigns
• Lead conceptual and visual development of various projects alone or in teams
• Work closely with other Designers and Directors to ensure design work exceeds expectations
• Research and develop mood boards before executing on your ideas, as well as help to facilitate collaboration and similar activities with other team members
• Provide and receive constructive design feedback in group settings
• Have a meticulous eye for detail and aim to deliver work with minimal revisions

Designer

Project & Program Management

• Guide Compass to become the leading source of real estate information in NYC by identifying and helping develop solutions for listing and building data quality challenges
• Define, monitor, and improve key data quality and health metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of product and operational efforts to create value for agents and clients
• Collaborate with agents, sales managers, regional leads, and other stakeholders to identify, define, and prioritize the problems they face
• Assist with the identification of product and process improvements to reduce the volume of data quality issues affecting our NYC customers
• Establish and execute on a roadmap of product and operational improvements that deliver systemic solutions to customer problems
• Serve as the primary point of contact for NYC customer escalations
• Oversee and iteratively improve existing processes to maintain sales and rental listing data coverage and quality, including contract and sold data verification, ACRIS updates, and third-party data comparisons
• Receive, review, and action inbound requests from external partners, including REBNY, OLR, and others
• Coordinate across teams to ensure issues are resolved in a timely manner and that NYC customers and other key stakeholders are aware of the resolution status and timing
• Prepare and present periodic progress updates to regional leadership and agents

Program Manager

Full-stack Engineer

• Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
• Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
• Evaluate and understand the technical trade offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
• Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects
• Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests
• Advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
• Hold yourself and your team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
• Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
• Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
• Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
• Mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence

Senior Software Engineer

Android Engineer

Senior Android Engineer

• Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
• Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
• Evaluate and understand the technical trade-offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving at a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
• Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects
• Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high-quality tests
• Advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
• Hold yourself and your team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
• Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
• Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
• Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
• Mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence

• Build, develop, and scale the platform that empowers real estate professionals, buyers, and sellers.
• Become a domain expert in real estate technology, serving as an empathetic partner to our customers.
• Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers.
• Architect distributed microservices architecture.
• Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies
• Execute on standard agile development methodology
• Join a great team with high visibility and challenging projects on the horizon to help grow your career

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) 

iOS Engineer

• Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
• Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
• Evaluate and understand the technical trade-offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving at a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
• Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects
• Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests
• Advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
• Hold yourself and your team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
• Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
• Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
• Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
• Mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence

Senior iOS Software Engineer

Growth Marketing

• At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.

Strategic Growth Manager

Administration

• Welcome all guests in the sales gallery
• Prepare guests for tours with the sales agents
• Coordinate previews for brokers as needed
• Schedule and confirm appointments
• Answer and direct all incoming inquiries and provide meaningful follow up and engagement
• Maintain a customer database, ensuring all data is entered accurately and in a timely manner
• Create sales reports and market studies
• Assist with marketing efforts
• Create and maintain contact lists, traffic reports, registrations, and demographic stats
• Provide administrative support to the Sales Team
• Assist with the planning and logistics associated with events and meetings
• Maintain and order necessary office supplies
• Organize, distribute, and keep inventory of marketing collateral
• Update listings across all platforms
• Provide basic operational support (coordinate flower delivery, IT service, housekeeping) and ensure sales gallery and model residences are always in impeccable condition
• Assist with communication between sales agents, the sales director, and project management team
• Miscellaneous support as needed for the Sales Director and Sales Team

New Development On-Site Real Estate Administrator

Human Resources

• Provide People & Culture (HR) support to people across the business, with swift and effective resolutions to employee questions on all HR topics, and triage to functional HR experts as needed. Anticipate business needs, think proactively and respond appropriately.
• Partner with the Senior People and Culture Business Partner to support business leaders and specialists in People & Culture to run all key people processes (performance management, annual performance reviews, compensation planning, talent reviews, employee engagement and retention, and more).
• Act as a trusted advisor to the business function that you support.
• Coach employees to assist them in their development, career planning and resolving challenges.
• Maintain and update data within our HR systems and help to produce and update our data & analytics metrics dashboard, ensuring a high degree of accuracy. Consult with clients (HRBP, Tech Leaders, the Business) to understand and anticipate reporting and metrics needs, design effective solutions, provide insights from metrics and determine needs for reporting dashboards, in order to mitigate risk and improve culture. Use data to identify trends in employee related issues, turnover and performance trends and provide perspective to solutions for the business.
• Partner with your clients and stakeholders in People & Culture on projects.
• Build compliance into all we do, including maintaining in depth knowledge of company policy and processes and legal requirements, helping with running various audits and reports. Provide HR policy guidance and interpretation, with a critical eye towards developing new, clarifying existing and sunsetting outdated policies as needed.

Associate People & Culture Business Partner

Infrastructure Engineer

• Lead, mentor, and guide a team comprising Business Systems Engineers, Developers, and Admins to foster a culture of high performance.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to scope and implement new technical initiatives, streamline processes, automate tasks, and educate employees on effective technology usage.
• Manage the daily activities of Systems Engineers, Developers, and Admins delivering critical features and enhancements for Compass’s business growth.
• Oversee technical operations of business systems, including Salesforce, Okta/OneLogin, Zendesk, Google, Workato, DialPad, and others.
• Provide leadership and direction to complete team tasks, resolve issues, and meet project milestones.
• Develop and implement efficient team operation processes across Agile, Release Management, Production Support, and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Define a clear vision for the short- and long-term technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with business and team goals.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders (Engineering, Growth & Revenue, Finance & Accounting, Legal, HR, etc.) to build trust and plan product development.
• Communicate transparently with cross-functional stakeholders to build trusted relationships and prepare for product investments.
• Lead the development and implementation of operational excellence strategies to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and quality across all operational facets.

Senior Manager, Business Systems Engineering

Business Operations & Strategy

• Act as a key stakeholder and leader on the team, representing National Operations across the organization
• Own, track, and forecast net customer retention, a key input into company-wide revenue forecasting
• Program manage high-impact, strategic initiatives, guiding alignment with cross-functional stakeholders on operational decisions and influencing the long-term trajectory of the business
• Gather data-driven insights to inform key stakeholders of the financial and operational impact of potential business decisions
• Work collaboratively with our Data and Analytics, Accounting, Finance, and Regional Operations teams
• Foster a culture of partnership and create a feedback loop between national and regional teams by informing communication strategies, facilitating the sharing of best practices, and soliciting feedback
• Provide thought partnership and relevant subject matter expertise to inform strategy and execution
• Monitor progress against key success metrics and escalate concerns to ensure the right actions are taken to course correct
• Maintain confidentiality, as appropriate, regarding the work you are helping to lead

Lead, Business Operations

Accounting, Payroll & Financial Planning

• Single-point owner on the controllership team for integration activities
• Responsible for end-to-end integration from strategy to completion
• Create playbook for M&A accounting integrations
• Develop system of controls, policies, and procedures for integrations
• Design, maintain KPIs and reports for operations
• Drive process improvement and re-engineering
• Manage integration process with high focus on policy alignment
• Maintain integration checklist and monitor progress
• Partner with business development and operational integration teams
• Work with accounts payable, procurement, and treasury teams
• Collaborate with close & consolidation, financial systems, and various functional teams
• Provide excellent customer service and manage issue resolution
• Other duties and ad-hoc projects as assigned

Director - Consolidations and M&A Accounting

• Single-point owner on the controllership team for integration related activities
• Responsible for the end-to-end integration process from strategy design through integration completion
• Responsible for creating a playbook for M&A accounting integrations
• Develop and maintain a system of controls, policies, and procedures over integration activities
• Design, develop and maintain KPIs and reports to manage the operations and efficiency of the integration process
• Drive process improvement and re-engineer integration procedures toward a standard solution
• Manage the integration process with a high focus on policy alignment
• Maintain the integration checklist and monitor progress against milestones
• Partner with various teams on accounting related support
• Support financial business systems team on system related integrations
• Collaborate with various teams including payroll, deal review, financial planning and analysis and external reporting
• Provide excellent customer service by proactively managing issue resolution
• Other duties and ad-hoc projects as assigned

Senior Manager - Consolidations and M&A Accounting

• Fully onsite role reporting to HQ New York City office or Long Island offices
• Strategic Growth Manager responsible for driving net-new revenue by bringing top producing agents to Compass
• Selling the Compass value proposition to agents to join Compass
• Working directly with decision-makers to influence agents to move to Compass
• A humanized sale process dealing with independent contractors
• Need for high EQ and IQ in a diverse team with varied backgrounds
• Conservatively generate 15x more revenue per head than top tech firms

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