Voiceover Manager

Voiceover Manager, Homes.com

Job Description

CoStar Group 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 for 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 voiceover artists? 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 voiceover manager for Homes.com (a subsidiary of CoStar Group), you’ll be part of a dynamic team crafting stories to give home buyers a street-level window into the lifestyle and vibe of cities, neighborhoods, parks, and schools throughout the country as they shop for their new homes. You’ll also be helping agents grow their business by connecting them with new clients.

To succeed in this role, you must be a critical thinker and a creative problem solver. You’ll draw on previous experience in team and project management processes, commercial productions, documentary-style storytelling, and/or marketing to create engaging, persuasive, and entertaining audio for all corners of Homes.com. Your team will record narratives supporting Homes.com video guides to help tell the story of what it would be like to live in those communities. These guides provide invaluable help to families, individuals, real estate agents, owners, investors, and more as they help discover communities, make informed decisions, and navigate the dynamic landscape of residential real estate and beyond. Multiple rounds of changes and feedback are part of the job, so adaptability is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coach a team of professional, experienced voiceover artists to meet high-quality standards.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to the team, promoting professional growth and development.
• Maintain the style guide and standards that will allow the team to produce well-crafted narratives that reflect the department’s evolving voice, tone, and technical standards.
• Maintain accountability for the quality and consistency of voiceover output in line with the department’s goals and standards.
• Ability to produce clearly articulated and engaging stories with quality equipment and clean audio to broadcast standards.
• Demonstrate advanced equipment proficiency using a computer, professional high-quality microphones, audio interfaces, and digital audio workstations (i.e. Adobe Audition)
• Ability to collaborate on assignments with producers, photographers, video editors, writers, and audio editors.
• Manage multiple responsibilities, changing priorities, and ability to excel in a fast-paced environment without missing deadlines.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit University or College
• 3-5 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 employers.
• Portfolio of 5+ examples of 1–3-minute videos with voice-over clips 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 creating effective OKRs, KPIs, and meeting performance metrics, being results-oriented.
• Mastery of audio recording and editing software (primarily - Adobe Audition) with the ability to edit/mitigate flubs, takes, breaths, and room tone.
• Proficiency with audio tools and effects (Equalizers, compressors/limiters, and noise reduction) and audio interfaces, microphones, mixing consoles, etc.
• Learn to read and edit content on brand and within style guides.
• Proficient with MS Office applications, including Excel, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, and OneDrive.
• Basic understanding of non-linear editing software (primarily - Adobe Premiere Pro).

What’s in it for you?

Working at CoStar Group means you’ll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. In addition to generous compensation and performance-based incentives, you’ll be supported in both 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
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center
• 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 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