Marketing + Business Development Manager, Real Estate
About Common
Common is the nation’s leading community-driven property manager, improving city living across 6 cities and for over 600 members. Using our signature approach to perfecting the modern rental experience, Common designs and operates coliving and traditional apartments in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Common’s hands-on, end-to-end property management and technology offering allows us to deliver unparalleled services that address the actual needs of today’s renter while providing significantly above-market returns for our real estate partners. This makes us the preferred choice for city-dwelling adults looking for a stress-free and all-inclusive living environment.
It’s an exciting time to be part of Common’s team. We challenge ourselves every day not just to think about ways to make city living better, but to activate on those ideas in meaningful ways. Our team is comprised of real estate professionals, designers, engineers, salespeople, marketers, client service representatives, and so much more. We work collaboratively, value self-startership, and embrace a “whatever it takes” mentality to ensure our work is done and done well.
Common was founded by General Assembly co-founder Brad Hargreaves and has raised over $65MM in venture funding.
About the Role
Common is looking for a Marketing + Business Development Manager, Real Estate to support the growth and management of our real estate partnership pipelines. This position will be based in our New York City offices and will report to our Head of Real Estate.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute an industry-leading strategy for communicating and marketing the Common brand and value proposition to real estate developers, owners, investors and lenders across the country
- Own our marketing strategy for outreach to developers from content creation and sourcing to execution and delivery, including ownership of our digital marketing database, RE-focused conference schedule, list of panel organizers, and key real estate players list
- Monitor relevant industry news to support Common’s thought-leadership platforms
- Assess sponsorship opportunities with key events and pitch/secure placement of regional executives and CEO Brad Hargreaves on key panels at real estate-focused conferences
- Create, streamline, maintain and refresh marketing collateral for use online or during in-person meetings with existing and potential partners, including ownership of our RE facing web pages
- Help the Real Estate team overall to identify opportunities for business development and expand our developer partner pipeline
Qualifications
- You have experience in the commercial real estate industry (multifamily preferred), with a familiarity of key players and conferences
- You possess excellent written communication skills and have experience creating content for email marketing platforms
- You have successfully planned and managed external client-facing events
- You have proven excellent analytical and presentation skills
- You know how to find the right companies and individuals to talk to about revenue generating opportunities across industries and markets
- You are comfortable representing the Common brand to current and potential partners in a variety of settings and formats
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 4 to 6 years work experience with a focus in marketing, investor relations or communications
- Significant experience using CRM systems
- You are hungry to build a company, a brand, and a new asset class in real estate
- You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
- You are creative, innovative and have the ability to think outside the box
- You know how to ask for help when you need it and you keep your cool in stressful situations
What We Offer
Common truly values our employees and wants to do everything to ensure that our employees are not only happy and professionally fulfilled, but also that they have the opportunity to be healthy. Because of this, we are committed to providing a number of affordable and valuable health and wellness benefits for our employees such as paid vacation and sick time, medical, dental and vision insurance, Company paid life insurance, Company paid STD/LTD Insurance, FSA + HSA options, commuter transit benefits, generous paid parental leave (up to 16 weeks!) and a 401K. Additional benefits such as Company equity, paid holidays, weekly team lunches + weekly happy hours, a fully stocked kitchen, flexible working hours, job training + development opportunities + a great wellness program are also available. And as always, we are regularly evaluating our offerings to ensure employees needs are being met.
We are committed to affirmatively providing equal opportunity to all associates and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, legally protected physical or mental disability, military or veteran status or any other basis protected under applicable federal or state law.