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title: 'Content Lead at The American Housing Corporation'
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# Content Lead at The American Housing Corporation

- **Company:** The American Housing Corporation
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-housing/5f09adab-e5b8-440d-8b82-9b8f4bf1044b

## Job description

The American Housing Corporation (American Housing) is looking for a video-first content creator to tell one of the most ambitious stories in American industry right now: a vertically integrated homebuilder designing, manufacturing, and building new homes across the country. You will own ideation, content strategy, and production, building the record of a company reinventing how America builds. This is a full-time role in our Austin, TX office, with some project-related travel. We welcome and support relocations.

## What You'll Do

- Ideate new content formats and series that capture American Housing's mission and unique approach to homebuilding.
- Pitch concepts and creative direction to the executive team and turn them into tangible production plans.
- Workshop with Brand the content roadmap, and our unique tone-of-voice, and style.
- Own the content planning across the company's social channels (in particular, short- and long-form video on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn).
- Direct content production from concept to delivery: scripting, storyboarding, filming, audio capture, editing, and distribution.
- Source and manage freelancers, contractors, and equipment rentals as needed for bigger shoots.
- Operate both on camera (hosting, interviewing) and off camera (directing others, shooting, editing) depending on a particular project and format needs.
- Maintain a content library of photo and video assets; continuously document manufacturing process, factory build-out, new construction, behind-the-scenes, and home tours.
- Distribute and adapt content across social platforms, tailoring format to each channel's audience.
- Manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Track content performance and iterate based on what resonates with our audiences.

## Requirements

- 3-5+ years of experience building and scaling a personal or company social brand with tangible results in growth of the audience.
- Experience across creative direction, storytelling, videography, and editing.
- A personal passion for homebuilding, technology, or design.
- Ability to lead both lean solo shoots and coordinate larger, more complex productions. Direct experience managing a content production team (editors, clippers, writers, producers).
- Fluency across Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, understanding of platform distinctions, and ability to adapt content to each.
- Experience interviewing guests or hosting on camera.
- Readiness to balance personal creative point of view with brand objectives.
- Comfortable presenting concepts to executives and incorporating feedback quickly.
- Proactive and able to operate with minimal oversight.

## About The American Housing Corporation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The American Housing Corporation is a vertically integrated real estate developer and housing manufacturer that industrializes homebuilding to deliver beautiful, attainable starter homes in America’s most dynamic cities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage, backed by venture capital)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Riley Meik (CEO), Bobby Fijan, Harris Rothaermel, and William Davis

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Housing manufacturing, real estate development, construction technology
- **Target Customers**: Homebuyers and renters seeking high-quality, moderately priced starter homes in growing U.S. cities; also partners with developers and landowners through joint ventures
- **Mission/Purpose**: “Saving the American Dream” by solving the “Missing Middle” housing crisis — bringing an abundance of beautiful starter homes to the nation’s most dynamic cities and neighborhoods

## Products & Services
- **Rowhomes (Proprietary Kit-of-Parts)**: A prefabricated building system designed for mass production, low-cost shipping (each component fits in intermodal shipping containers), and rapid on-site assembly (homes assembled in days). These are conventional, code-compliant homes available for purchase or rent.
- **Alamo (Internal Software Platform)**: An end-to-end orchestration platform that manages the entire development stack — from underwriting and site planning to factory production and on-site assembly.
- **Factory Manufacturing**: Custom machines and tools engineered in-house to automate production and ensure consistent quality for every major building component.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (Pre-Seed stage)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Pre-Seed round completed with 1 investor (amount undisclosed); individual real estate projects financed through private real estate capital
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by “leading venture capital firms” (parent company); specific investors not disclosed. Notable alumni from: Meta, Aro Homes, Saronic Technologies, Hustle Fund, Starlight Labs
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount growth: +16.7% monthly growth, from ~10 employees to 14 (LinkedIn data)
  - First factory opened in Austin in 2025; pipeline includes Texas, New Mexico, California, Washington, and Montana
  - 6 active job postings as of mid-2025 (despite -14.3% quarterly decline)
  - Strong hiring signal for engineering, design, and manufacturing roles

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical Integration**: Owns every step — land acquisition, factory production, logistics, software, and on-site assembly — giving unprecedented control over quality, cost, speed, and aesthetics
- **Proprietary Building System**: Kit-of-parts designed for mass production, shipping in standard intermodal containers, and assembly in days
- **Custom Software (Alamo)**: Orchestrates the entire development stack, creating a proprietary data and workflow moat
- **Factory Automation**: Custom machines and tools built in-house to automate production and ensure consistent quality
- **Focus on the “Missing Middle”**: Targeting a critical market gap — high-quality starter homes in dynamic urban areas — that traditional homebuilders and manufactured housing have not solved

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale Factory Production**: Expanding factory capacity to produce components at volume
- **Geographic Expansion**: Active pipeline in Texas, New Mexico, California, Washington, and Montana
- **Partnerships with Developers**: Joint ventures with landowners and developers to accelerate land acquisition and project development
- **Product Iteration**: First collection of rowhomes is in development (no custom homebuilding); aiming for purchase and rental availability upon completion
- **Hiring for Core Engineering**: Actively recruiting Senior Software Engineers (Alamo), Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, and Architects to build the technology and factory systems

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: “Housing is the cornerstone of the American Dream” — a mission-driven team of engineers, builders, and architects tackling one of the world’s most neglected engineering frontiers
- **Work Environment**: Headquarters in Austin, TX; roles span Design, Manufacturing, Engineering, Software, and Real Estate. The company emphasizes “building beautiful things that shape the lives of millions”
- **Engineering Focus**: Opportunity to work on complex problems at national scale — from custom factory automation and mechanical engineering to building a full-stack software platform (Alamo) that orchestrates real estate development
- **Team Profile**: Small, founder-heavy team (5 founders out of 14 total); lean, high-autonomy environment; talent drawn from Meta, Aro Homes, Saronic Technologies, and Hustle Fund
- **Perks/Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the Austin HQ and factory presence suggest a hybrid/onsite model for manufacturing and engineering roles; software roles may offer flexibility
- **Notable**: Company has a strong engineering culture — job postings for Senior Software Engineer, Director of Mechanical Engineering, and Lead Mechanical Engineer, Building Shell

## Sources
1. [americanhousing.com](https://www.americanhousing.com/)
2. [americanhousing.com/faq](https://www.americanhousing.com/faq)
3. [americanhousing.com/careers](https://www.americanhousing.com/careers)
4. [LinkedIn - The American Housing Corporation](https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-american-housing-corporation)
5. [Ashby Jobs - The American Housing Corporation](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-housing)

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