Senior Residential Title Specialist

About this role

Who We Are: Pippin Title is a venture-backed real estate tech startup that offers nationwide, comprehensive, high-quality, technology-driven title search services to clients across the US. We’re bringing title search into the 21st century. Pippin is headquartered in New York City. With a remote-first culture, we look to hire the best talent wherever they are located across the country. How We Do It: We work with title insurance companies, property developers, and financial institutions to quickly and easily produce title documents to make the real estate closing process faster and more efficient.

Our proprietary cloud-based software allows our customers to manage their workflows efficiently, saving them time, money, and hassle. Having just closed a recent financing round, we are rapidly scaling our business - and our team! Key Responsibilities: • Perform and review complex residential title searches, including full chain-of-title research. • Run titles using online county records, title plants, public records, and local abstractor resources.

• Analyze chains of title and prepare/review complete title reports. • Verify ownership, encumbrances, legal descriptions, vesting, and all relevant parties associated with the property. • Review and interpret deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, liens, judgments, probate proceedings, easements, rights-of-way, plats, maps, and other title-related documents. • Ensure all required documents are identified, correctly attached, and presented in proper order.

• Accurately summarize recorded documents, court proceedings, and other findings affecting title. • Identify clouds on title, restrictions, adverse matters, breaks in the chain, and other issues that may affect property ownership, transfer, sale, or use. • Research and resolve discrepancies or incomplete findings and handle searches returned for correction. • Conduct final quality reviews of title searches before completion and delivery.

Must-have qualifications: • 9+ years of residential title search/title examination experience in the United States. • Extensive hands-on experience independently performing and completing title searches. • Experience in any U.S. state; multi-state title search experience is a strong plus. • Strong knowledge of chain of title, vesting, property ownership, encumbrances, and title search terminology. • Extensive experience researching and interpreting deeds, mortgages, liens, judgments, probate records, easements, rights-of- way, plats, maps, and other recorded documents.