Real Estate Private Equity Associate

📍 Location : Remote (EST Alignment)

Salary: USD2000/Monthly

🏢 Division / Unit: Investments & Capital Markets

💼 Reports to: CEO / COO

About the Role

We are seeking a high performing Real Estate Private Equity Associate with 5+ years of institutional experience across acquisitions, underwriting, due diligence, and transaction execution — a judgment-driven professional who understands how to transform raw deal flow and imperfect information into conviction-grade investment decisions.

The ideal candidate is a professional who has operated inside high-stakes investment environments, supported complex real estate transactions end-to-end, and is now ready to function at the intersection of capital protection, risk underwriting, and strategic narrative control.

You will act as both a principal-in-training and a force multiplier for senior decision-makers — capable of compressing decision timelines, surfacing risk early, and elevating the firm’s investment standards with institutional precision.

Core Mandate

To protect and compound investor capital by underwriting, diligence, and executing real estate investments with clarity, discipline, and New York–specific judgment, while building repeatable decision frameworks across the investment platform.

Key Responsibilities

1. Investment Underwriting & Financial Architecture

Own institutional-grade underwriting that survives IC and lender scrutiny.

• Build and maintain advanced real estate models (DCF, development, value-add, equity waterfalls, sensitivities)
• Price downside risk, timing friction, and capital stack fragility — not just base-case IRRs
• Translate complex assumptions into decision-ready outputs

2. New York–Specific Market & Regulatory Intelligence

Underwrite reality — not theory.

• Incorporate rent regulation, permitting timelines, labor dynamics, and political risk into models
• Assess time-to-execution as a core investment variable
• Identify when certainty outperforms headline returns

3. Due Diligence & Transaction Execution

Serve as a control center from LOI to close.

• Lead financial diligence: rent rolls, leases, expenses, budgets, feasibility
• Coordinate third-party advisors (legal, appraisal, construction, lenders)
• Manage closing checklists, document accuracy, and execution risk

4. Investment Committee Materials & Narrative Control

Shape how decisions are made.

• Prepare IC memos and investment narratives that surface risk before upside
• Anticipate objections and pre-wire stakeholders
• Communicate trade-offs clearly without hiding behind spreadsheets

5. Portfolio & Asset Performance Intelligence

Monitor value creation post-close.

• Track KPIs: NOI, DSCR, occupancy, leasing velocity, budget vs. actuals
• Update asset management models and flag deviations early
• Recommend operational or capital-structure adjustments

6. Capital Markets & Investor Support

Support capital formation with credibility.

• Assist in capital raises, lender engagement, and JV structuring
• Prepare investor decks, performance reports, and financial exhibits
• Analyze leverage, cost of capital, and downside protection

7. Process Discipline & Institutional Scaling

Reduce friction for senior leadership.

• Improve underwriting templates, diligence workflows, and decision cadence
• Catch errors others miss and surface issues early
• Build systems that make excellence repeatable

8. Research & Strategy

• Conduct deep market research on demographic trends, submarket performance, regulatory risks, and economic indicators. 
• Provide insights that support acquisition strategy and allocation decisions.

Required Expertise

Experience

5–7+ years in real estate private equity, investment banking, or principal investing

Education

Bachelor’s in Finance, Economics, Real Estate; MBA or MSRE preferred

Technical Mastery

Advanced Excel modeling, DCFs, waterfalls, development budgets, sensitivities

Transaction Fluency

LOI-to-close exposure, diligence, contracts, lender coordination

Communication Excellence

IC-grade writing, verbal clarity, stakeholder confidence

Behavioral Attributes

Judgment, reliability, composure under uncertainty

Strategic Mindset

Capital protection first, return optimization second

Cognitive & Leadership Signature

This professional thinks in frameworks and executes with precision.

They synthesize complexity into clarity, remain calm under ambiguity, and understand when to escalate issues before they metastasize into risk.

They lead with discipline, intellectual honesty, and trust accumulation, knowing that in private equity, credibility compounds faster than returns.

Ideal Archetype

Ideal Archetype — “The Mini-Principal”

This individual:

• Thinks like a Principal but executes like an elite Associate
• Communicates with calm authority and precision
• Surfaces risk early — even when inconvenient
• Compresses decision timelines for senior leaders
• Is trusted internally and externally despite title

Why Join Us

You will join a platform that treats the Associate role as a training ground for future Principals, not a support function.

This is an opportunity to operate at the highest echelon of real estate investing, where judgment is valued as much as technical skill, and where your work directly shapes capital allocation, risk posture, and long-term value creation.

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