Title Assistant

If you’re good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you’re the best at what you do, come work for Doma.

Want to infuse a $34B sector of the insurance and real estate industry with predictive analytics and a tech-forward customer experience? Join Doma and send an entirely new type of real estate model into the world.

About Us 

Doma offers solutions for lenders, real estate professionals, title agents, and homeowners that make closings vastly simpler and more efficient, reducing cost and increasing customer satisfaction.

Our Values

• People First - We communicate with honesty and respect to our customers, colleagues, and partners.
• Better Together - We believe diversity, equity and inclusion creates value through the differences in our backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
• Solution Driven - We encourage calculated risk-taking, and we know that some of our best learning happens by making mistakes along the way.
• Act with Integrity - We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards in all of our business practices.
  
  

The Role

Under the direction of the Title Assistant Team Lead the Title Assistant performs specialized title processing and clerical duties, including order entry, checking documents, title updates, and provides courteous information to customers, as well as assisting the title officer in preparing and delivering files. Assists customers with requests placed over the telephone or by email. Helps the exam team process Title Commitments.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work cooperatively and courteously with others
• Assists title officers in maintaining a high level of customer service in the processing of title orders by performing the following typical clerical duties:
• Open orders
• Filing, both manually and electronically
• Document retrieval
• Provide backup to other departments
• Occasional relief for receptionist
• Set-up files for searching
• Place back-up documentation in the correct title files; both manually and electronically
• Answer client questions
• Complete title search Updates
• Call-back charges
• Prepare invoices/bills for clients
• Various clerical duties involved in processing a title order
• Customer service using telephones and written correspondence
• Administer mail
• Administer Email box
• Photocopy and email documents
• Assists Title Officers, as needed
• Abstracts documents, legal descriptions, property inspection orders and other similar material. May compose cover letters and letters/emails requesting documents, statements of information and related documents and items from escrow clientele, for the purpose of facilitating processing of the title order.
• Type and prepare commitments and title reports
• Opens correspondence and attached documents, tax reports and corresponding legal documents. Maintains numerical filing system and log of orders opened and closed.
• Assists customers by answering their inquiries regarding programs, progress of order and adjusting work priorities to meet customer deadlines. Take recording instructions from escrow officer and reviews file for correct vesting, legal description and order liability. Indicates on write-up sheet authorized exceptions to be included or eliminated in title policy.
• Performs other title support duties such as ordering county certified copies of county recorded documents, reviewing and correcting policies and comparing legal descriptions.
• Learn the rules and procedures of title support at the assigned location.
• Learn specific policies and procedures of the North American Title Company.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.
  
  

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Completion of high school and two years of experience in the Title Industry
• Terminology and documents related to title search, title chain and property ownership.
• Basic terminology and documents related to title searches and examinations, knowledge of title chains and property ownership.
• Customer service techniques.
• Maintaining accuracy and high productivity and meeting urgent, fixed deadlines.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of the work, including real estate agents, escrow officers, attorneys and others.
• Clear, concise and effective oral and written communication.
• The ability to identify, obtain and organize documents.
• Printing, sorting and assembling documents rapidly and accurately.
• Operating at a high level of productivity and efficiency to meet deadlines in a high volume environment.
• Ability to identify numerical sequence in relation to the labeling on documents to obtain the correct document or file, quickly and accurately.
• Basic math for calculating vesting, pricing, and pay-off demands, etc.
  
  

Physical Requirements:

This is a position which requires the Title Assistant to have the ability to operate computer equipment, speak, hear, travel, bend, stoop, reach, lift and move and carry up to 25 lbs. Finger dexterity is necessary. In addition, the position requires occasional automobile and domestic air travel.

This description outlines the basic responsibilities and requirements for the position noted. This is not a comprehensive listing of all job duties of the Associates. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

How we’ll value you and make your life a bit easier:

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to eligible employees: medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), generous vacation time, and paid bonding leave.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

We believe the most valuable investment we can make is to build an outstanding team of colleagues and leaders who are passionate about our mission.

We currently offer the following benefits to all Full-Time employees:

• Work/Life Balance - We encourage taking Paid Time Off (PTO)!
• 12 Weeks of Paid Family Bonding Leave (Maternity and Paternity)
• Incredible medical, dental, and vision benefits options to allow you to customize to you and your family’s needs that all start on your first day of employment
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401K with company match program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Commuter Flexible Spending Account (i.e. Transit or Parking)
• Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
• Auto & Home Insurance Group Life Insurance
• Critical Illness, Injury and Hospital Insurance 
• Pet Insurance
  
  

We believe in Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.