What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Landman position at Frontlands?
Note: This role may start as contract before becoming a permanent position.
About Frontlands
Frontlands is a Texas-based fintech lender building the first mineral-rights–backed credit platform. We operate at the intersection of specialty finance, structured credit, oil and gas "mineral rights", and national consumer product. You will be joining a founder-led team that moves fast, values clarity, and expects high ownership.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Landman who excels at deep title research and can bring structure, clarity, and repeatability to our mineral-rights title process. This is not a field acquisition or leasing role. It is a research-driven position focused on clean ownership analysis, and building the internal systems that let us scale nationally.
Key Accountabilities:
Own Title Accuracy & Clarity
Deliver complete, reliable title packages—clean chains of title, ownership reports, and clear risk identification—ensuring underwriting has decisive, accurate information every time.
Build Scalable Title Systems
Develop and maintain SOPs, templates, workflows, and quality controls that standardize how Frontlands handles title across all states and assets.
Drive Title Process Innovation
Identify bottlenecks, deploy new tools, refine data structures, and introduce best practices that increase speed, reduce errors, and materially improve the quality and efficiency of the title function.
Manage Documentation & Reporting
Retrieve and organize documents, coordinate with external partners, and keep all land records and status updates current, accurate, and actionable.
Qualifications
- At least 5 – 10 years of experience in mineral title research, title opinion review, due diligence.
- Strong command of Texas title conventions; multi-state experience preferred.
- Ability to interpret complex conveyances, fractionalized ownership, life estates, floating/fixed NPRIs, and multi-generation chains.
- Experience with curative actions and resolving ownership discrepancies.
- Proficiency with land management software, public records systems, and advanced Excel/Google Sheets.
- Highly organized, systems-oriented, and skilled at building repeatable processes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Land Management, Energy, Geology, Business, or related field; AAPL certifications preferred.
- Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Strong technology skills
Salary : $120,000 - $160,000