Escrow Officer

Stewart Title • Glendale, CA

2d

About The Position

At Stewart, success begins with great people. Stewart was named a 2024-2025 Best Company to Work For by U.S. News & World Report, and a 2025 Top Workplace by USA Today. The company is committed to helping employees own, develop, and nurture their careers, investing in their journey for smart growth. Stewart fosters an inclusive work environment that reflects its customers, empowering employees to use their unique experiences, passion, and skills to help the company and communities evolve and improve. The vision is to become the premier title and real estate services company. Stewart is a global real estate services company, providing title insurance, settlement, underwriting, and lender services through its family of companies. The Escrow Officer provides escrow services for residential and commercial resale, new construction, refinance, relocation, and timeshare transactions. This role is responsible for facilitating real estate transactions by providing a high level of customer service and proactive communication to both internal and external customers throughout the closing process. Stewart is on a journey to become the premier title services company, offering personalized service, industry expertise, and customized solutions for virtually any type of real estate transaction. At its core, Stewart helps make property ownership around the world possible, fostering meaningful relationships through ingenuity and efforts, and is dedicated to going above and beyond to provide the best experience for employees and customers alike. The company is committed to sustainably serving employees, shareholders, customers, and communities at large, creating an inclusive workplace that fosters pride, passion, respect, and belonging, while lessening its environmental impact and providing transparency in business.

Requirements

• High school diploma required
• Typically requires 5+ years of related work experience

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s preferred

Responsibilities

• Responsible for handling real estate transactions by establishing new escrow accounts, managing funds, processing documents for closings, and completing settlements in accordance with established policies and procedures
• Acts as a neutral liaison between file parties, adheres to company policy, and monitors and mitigates risk to the company
• Understands how own team integrates with related teams to accomplish objectives
• Impacts the quality, timeliness and effectiveness of the team through own work
• Recognizes and solves atypical problems that occur infrequently
• Evaluates and selects solutions from existing precedents or procedures
• Communicates and explains complex information, including interdependencies within the team and others
• Works under limited supervision and may use discretion to modify work practices and processes to achieve results or improve efficiency
• Individual contributor acting as a resource for less experienced team members; does not have supervisory responsibilities
• Performs all other duties as assigned by management

Benefits

• a variety of health and wellness insurance options and programs
• paid time off
• 401(k) with company match
• employee stock purchase program
• employee discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED