Senior Title Examiner

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 title searches and examine property records to establish ownership and chain of title. • Run titles using online county records, title plants, public-record databases, and other available title research resources.

• Review title searches and supporting documentation for completeness and accuracy. • Identify ownership, vesting, mortgages, liens, judgments, easements, restrictions, rights-of-way, and other matters affecting title. • Review and interpret deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, releases, liens, judgments, probate documents, plats, maps, and other recorded instruments. • Identify breaks in the chain of title and other potential title issues.

• Prepare or assist with preparation of title reports, title commitments, or underwriting documentation based on search findings. • Research additional records when clarification or supporting documentation is required. • Work with title examiners, underwriters, abstractors, and other title professionals to resolve title-related questions and discrepancies. • Perform quality checks and corrections on completed title searches when required.

Must-have qualifications: • 9+ years of title industry experience involving title searches, title examination, abstracting, or title underwriting in the United States. • Significant hands-on experience performing or running title searches and researching property records. • Experience reviewing deeds, mortgages, liens, judgments, probate documents, easements, right-of-ways, plats, maps, and similar title documents. • Comfortable working independently with county records, title plants, and online title research systems.