Director, Leasing and Asset Management (Class A)

We are hiring for a global Real Estate company.

Key Responsibilities

Leasing Strategy and Execution

• Lead owner-side leasing strategy for the office asset, including positioning, target tenant mix, pricing discipline, renewal strategy, vacancy planning, and broker direction.
• Manage and challenge external leasing brokers, setting clear mandates, monitoring pipeline quality, and ensuring marketing activity supports the ownership strategy.
• Review and recommend business terms for new leases, renewals, expansions, contractions, restructurings, and early terminations.
• Evaluate effective rent, TI, free rent, leasing commissions, escalations, credit, term, downtime, and other economic considerations.
• Build and maintain leasing assumptions, rollover forecasts, scenario analyses, and recommendations that connect leasing decisions to NOI, valuation, financing, and business-plan objectives.
• Maintain strong relationships with tenants, brokers, market participants, and service providers to identify risks and opportunities early.
• Develop recommendations for large vacancies, tenant retention, amenity positioning, prebuilt programs, capital improvements, and leasing-related investments.

Asset Management and Operations

• Serve as a key owner representative across leasing, asset management, property management, engineering, construction, and tenant-experience initiatives.
• Support annual business planning, budgeting, reforecasting, capital planning, and performance reporting.
• Identify operational, leasing, and capital issues that affect occupancy, cash flow, tenant satisfaction, or asset value, and drive solutions through completion.
• Work with property management and engineering teams to align building operations, tenant improvements, capital projects, and leasing commitments.
• Review operating performance, lease abstracts, rent rolls, tenant receivables, concessions, capital expenditures, and major vendor or project decisions.
• Help establish clear operating rhythms, decision-making protocols, reporting standards, and accountability across internal teams and external advisors.

Leadership and Communication

• Present concise, fact-based recommendations to senior leadership, clearly explaining alternatives, risks, economics, and required decisions.
• Coordinate effectively across internal teams, ownership, lenders, joint-venture partners, brokers, attorneys, consultants, and tenants.
• Take initiative in identifying problems before they become urgent and in advancing decisions without requiring extensive direction.
• Build a collaborative, accountable working relationship with the CEO and other senior leaders as the organization evolves.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of commercial real estate experience, with significant owner-side office leasing, asset management, or operating experience.
• Strong preference for experience with Class A Manhattan office assets; Lower Manhattan experience is highly valued.
• Strong understanding of lease economics, including effective rent, TI, free rent, commissions, operating expense recoveries, tenant credit, renewal probability, and leasing-related cash-flow impact.
• Experience linking leasing strategy to asset value, NOI, capital planning, refinancing, and broader business-plan objectives.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage competing priorities in a complex operating environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make clear, structured recommendations to senior decision-makers.
• High degree of ownership, judgment, initiative, and follow-through.
• Advanced Excel and financial-analysis capability required; experience with leasing, asset-management, property-management, or business-intelligence systems is preferred.