Field Operations Agent, Austin

Who we are...

Avant Stay delivers world class, authentic, tech-enabled short-term rental (“STR”) group experiences targeted at the millennial generation. We are venture funded and growing rapidly in the explosive $100+ billion dollar STR industry. We deliver a customized end-to-end experience that is tailored just for groups and powered with technology at every layer.

As a Field Operations Agent, you will support the management team in all the day to day operational activities related to our Avant Stay properties in the designated area. You will ensure a superior guest experience by auditing properties, maintaining supplies, and responding to concerns in a timely fashion. This position does require close proximity to the market and will require frequent travel to various sites within the designated area.

You will be responsible for the following duties and responsibilities, which may not be an exhaustive list:

• Reporting to the local market leader and performing routine assigned tasks and providing other support as directed.

• Conducting inspections of properties within your designated area to ensure compliance with Avant Stay standards and regulations.

• Maintaining inventory and stock supply in the office and ensuring that each market property has the necessary supplies and equipment to function effectively.

• Responding to issues or requests via emails, calls, texts, Slack messages, and tickets from guests or homeowners in a timely and effective manner, providing excellent customer service.

• Performing minor housekeeping or routine rental maintenance tasks as needed, such as changing linens, moving furniture, assembling products in the homes, cleaning, changing light bulbs, locks, ring cameras, troubleshooting cable, or addressing wifi issues.

• Frequently traveling to various properties within the designated area to support operations and ensure compliance.

• Oversee housekeeping dispatching in the absence of the local market leader.

• Strong focus on onboarding new homes.

• 1+ year of hospitality or customer-facing experience

• Basic skills in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint);
  Knowledge of Salesforce a plus

• Ability and availability to work weekends and holidays, with an overall flexible schedule to fit current business needs

• Access to reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license

• Ability to spend a majority of working time standing, walking, and driving to properties.

• Ability to regularly bend at the waist, squat, kneel, climb, carry, reach, stoop, and occasionally push, pull, and lift more than 25 lbs.

• Excellent self-management skills, and the ability to prioritize and deliver work to meet tight deadlines and work in a fast paced environment

• Experience in hospitality and/or real estate are a plus

• Must reside in the designated area.

• Hourly pay $23/hr, depending on skills & experience

• Generous company-sponsored insurance (medical, dental, vision, life, etc.)

• Flexible paid time off

• Complimentary and discounted stays at Avant Stay properties

• Pre-tax retirement savings plans offered via Betterment

• Paid parental leave

• Fitness reimbursement

• Cell phone reimbursement

• Mileage reimbursement

You’ll be doing work that matters alongside an experienced and dynamic team, transforming the way people travel and vacation. Your place within the colossal travel and real estate industries will leave you with a wealth of opportunities to feel both challenged to innovate and rewarded for your efforts. Of course, we will offer you pay and benefits, but we’re about more than that.

Avant Stay is a place where you can craft your own path to greatness. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, find your future at Avant Stay.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. Different makes us better.