Leasing Specialist
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, member 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.
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About the Role
Common is growing rapidly and expanding into multiple new cities in 2020. We are looking for ambitious, self-motivated business people to be the next generation of employees turning housing into a consumer-focused industry. This is an entry-level position with strong career development and the opportunity for rapid promotion into senior sales, member services, and real estate roles. This role reports to the Leasing Manager and is eligible for monthly commission.
Responsibilities
- Tour prospects through new homes or existing homes; Determine the sales strategy associated with filling a new home vs. existing homes
- Be an expert on all available products in a region - new homes and existing homes; You should be comfortable speaking about the differences between homes, and able to match/sell the right home to the right prospect
- Weekly goal setting and demand generation; Determine priority of vacant rooms, based on a number of competing objectives; Communicate those priorities to marketing and inside sales to produce demand against that inventory
- Work with our development team to design tools and dashboards to support leasing activity for homes
Qualifications
- You have 2+ years of sales experience (real estate preferred but not required)
- You will be able to demonstrate both a consultative and aggressive selling style if need be, and can tailor our value to respond to prospect’s specific pain points and challenges
- You are comfortable working in environments where you will be able to take initiative and carve out a path to success for yourself
- Your schedule is flexible and will be willing to work weekends and evenings if need be
- Ability to travel to support new home openings in other markets
- Emotional intelligence, coachability and a strong work ethic
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
- FSA + HSA options
- Company-paid life insurance
- Company-paid STD/LTD
- Paid parental leave
- 401k plans
Additional benefits such as equity, paid holidays, commuter transit benefits, 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.
Common is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.