About Common
Common is the nation’s leading residential brand offering convenience and community through coliving and traditional apartments. Our signature tech-enabled property management allows us to deliver unparalleled experiences across 40+ buildings, 7 cities, and over 1,500 members. Common is the preferred choice for both residents looking for a stress-free and all-inclusive living environment, and for real estate owners seeking reliable, above-market returns. Launched in October 2015, we now operate homes in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. and receive over 15,000 new member applications per month.

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 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 sits squarely at the intersection between technology and real estate, working every day to build quality residential solutions that bring positive change to the world’s rental housing crisis. 

Common was founded by Brad Hargreaves and has raised $65MM in venture funding. Brad is a visionary leader with vast experience in the technology and service space, previously founding the education company General Assembly.

To follow the latest Common news, get to know our community of residents, and learn about what it’s like to work at Common, you can follow us on Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter. To see more open roles and hear from Common employees check out our Careers Page. 

About the Role

Common is seeking an Asset Manager to work with our growing roster of real estate partners. As a key member of Common’s Asset Management team, you will serve as the primary point of contact for Common’s real estate owners, and champion their interests internally. You will work closely with Common’s Finance and Operations teams to define, measure, and communicate asset performance to Common’s clients. This role reports to the VP of Asset Management. 

Responsibilities 

• Serve as the real estate owner’s primary point of contact within Common
• Lead the onboarding of new clients to ensure expectations are set for a successful partnership
• Understand each client and their pipeline of projects with Common, including open homes, projects in development, and deals under negotiation, and serve as the expert on all client matters internally 
• Maintain a holistic view of the homes in assigned portfolio, including ownership structure, partnership agreement, scope of services, and financial and operational performance
• Be intimately familiar with the business plans and operating budgets for each home in assigned portfolio 
• Drive all client communication, including relationship kickoff, budget approval process, monthly financial reporting and variance analysis, and periodic business review calls
• Collaborate with the Operations team to address portfolio issues that meaningfully impact NOI 
• Identify opportunities to grow relationships with existing partners 
• Act as the client’s primary advocate within Common and work cross-functionally to execute upon client feedback 

Qualifications

• You have worked in asset management or property management within a real estate organization
• You have experience working with external partners or clients
• You are fluent with financial and business metrics and can read and understand a P&L statement with ease
• You are able to anticipate and communicate issues before they become problems
• You are comfortable working cross-departmentally to get things done
• You have excellent verbal and written communication 
• You are able to navigate ambiguity and make data-informed decisions quickly
• You have 7+ years of relevant experience 
• You possess a high degree of emotional intelligence 
• You are a scrappy and resourceful problem solver
• You are a team player with a “can-do” attitude
• You have a BA or BS degree

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, FSA + HSA options, commuter transit benefits, paid parental leave and a 401K. Additional benefits such as equity, paid holidays, weekly team lunches + happy hours, a fully stocked kitchen, 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.