Senior Associate

About our client

Our client is building a better tomorrow. The firm’s visionary leadership team and on the ground experts are unparalleled in their ability to foster innovation, anticipate global and local needs, and cultivate new initiatives, such as its tenant amenities platform Zo., and its flexible space and co-working brand Studio. For them, real estate is more than buildings. They focus on the intersections that matter most. The intersection of real estate and people, real estate and technology, real estate and your local neighborhood. They build community and connection. Designing living rooms to labs, boardrooms to breakrooms, they put the customer at the center of everything they do. They build timeless communities that serve neighborhoods and cities with affordability, public space and easy accessibility.

Our client successfully differentiates itself in the venture capital market providing founders and companies with strong commercial partnerships, deep industry expertise, and access to a broad network of industry professionals across global real estate and construction ecosystem.

They are looking for a Portfolio Manager to join as a member of the Proptech team. Portfolio Manager will play a key role in delivering strategic value of their venture investments.

The goal for this role is to accelerate growth of current and future portfolio companies and facilitate their connections with their global platform of 1,200 real estate professionals, enable various commercial partnerships, support knowledge exchange within companies, and create and maintain first-class VC portfolio management reporting. A primary focus will be to understand what the portfolio company needs and how the broader platform can help them achieve their goals.

The responsibilities of this role include:

• Drive various engagements and collaborations between our client’s Proptech portfolio companies and their global real estate platform across regions and various functions. These engagements could range from one-off knowledge requests to full-scale product implementation across various business units.
• Support portfolio companies in navigating the organization.
• Maintain an accurate and up to date view of the portfolio company’s status, their products, and goals; develop and build relationships with business leaders in the portfolio companies.
• Establish and maintain processes to monitor and track portfolio company engagements across the portfolio and investment teams
• Produce quarterly portfolio reports in adherence with venture capital and the company’s investment portfolio best practices.
• Maintain monthly investment performance tracker and performance for existing investments, manage portfolio valuations, track quarterly statement reports and other portfolio reporting responsibilities.
• Support the broader Proptech & Venture investment team in topical research and selected investment decisions.
• Develop our client’s connections with early-stage companies in various forms such as Demo Days, community meet-ups, and others.

Our client’s people is their most valuable asset, so they invest heavily in finding and developing their future leaders. The successful candidate will ideally have:

• 4-6 years of experience in a startup or technology business development, partnership development, community management roles, or venture capital portfolio development / operations roles, tier one strategy consulting or alternative investment investor relations role.
• High passion for startup environment, desire to create value in the intersection of fast-growing VC scene and real estate.
• Self-directed and self-driven with very strong communication and organizational skills and ability to work with a distributed cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Strong financial acumen.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.

Our client is deeply committed to creating and maintaining a diverse workforce which promotes different views and perspectives. They expect their leaders and employees alike to champion diversity and inclusion practices. Our client has several employee affinity and interest groups that provide employees opportunities to develop professional relationships across the business and identify opportunities for development and advancement.

They are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and treat all applicants for employment equally based upon job-related qualifications and without regards to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin, disability, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.