National Commercial Escrow Manager

Position Summary: Our client is seeking a seasoned Commercial Escrow Officer with deep national and multi-state closing experience to lead and oversee a National Commercial Escrow Team. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role responsible for driving consistent closing execution across multiple jurisdictions, supporting regional teams, and ensuring best-in-class service for complex commercial title transactions. The position is remote with periodic travel to support teams, clients, and operational needs. Compensation

Base Salary: $150,000 - $225,000 (commensurate with experience)

Key Responsibilities: Lead, mentor, and develop a national commercial escrow function, including escrow officers/closers and support staff across multiple regions. Personally handle and/or quarterback high-complexity commercial transactions across multiple states, ensuring accurate execution and timely closings. Serve as a primary escalation point for complex deal structures, documentation, timing issues, and stakeholder coordination. Drive consistency and quality through: standard operating procedures (SOPs), closing checklists and controls, best practices across jurisdictions and branches/regions. Partner cross-functionally with commercial title, underwriting, legal/compliance, operations, sales, and finance to ensure smooth transaction flow. Manage workflow planning, capacity balancing, and performance expectations across regions. Maintain strong client relationships with developers, investors, lenders, attorneys, and brokers; represent the company in high-touch transactions. Support process improvement initiatives, systems adoption, and reporting/visibility for national pipeline and closing metrics. Travel as needed to support onboarding, training, team alignment, key client meetings, and regional operational needs.

Required Qualifications: Demonstrated experience closing commercial title/escrow transactions across multiple states/jurisdictions (national footprint).Proven leadership experience managing or leading teams across different regions (distributed/remote team environment preferred).Strong working knowledge of commercial closing documents and transaction types (examples may include: acquisitions/dispositions, refinances, multi-site portfolios, entity/vesting complexities, lender requirements, etc.).Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels-build the national function while staying capable of stepping into complex closings when needed. High attention to detail, strong judgment, and ability to manage multiple high-priority transactions under deadline. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills (attorneys, lenders, internal ops, executives).Comfortable working remotely with a high degree of independence and accountability. Experience overseeing escrow operations for a commercial title company with a multi-state or national platform. Demonstrated ability to standardize processes, implement controls/checklists, and improve consistency across multiple offices/regions. Ability to track and communicate performance using basic operating metrics (pipeline visibility, cycle times, workload/capacity, service levels).Familiarity with common commercial escrow/title production platforms (varies by organization).Work Environment Remote position with travel (frequency dependent on business needs; discussed during interview process).Collaborative, high-performance environment supporting time-sensitive commercial closings nationwide. ?