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About the Role

Douglas Elliman Development Marketing is seeking a Senior Project Manager to coordinate and execute residential leasing portfolios, business-development opportunities, client engagements, and advisory assignments. This role operates at the intersection of portfolio management, brokerage coordination, client service, and business development, ensuring leasing assignments are organized, actively managed, and supported by clear communication and timely reporting. The position is ideal for an experienced real estate professional with strong project-management skills and practical leasing knowledge.

Responsibilities

Coordinate residential leasing and advisory assignments across owners, asset managers, brokers, property-management firms, onsite leasing teams, and internal support functions.
Establish and maintain project plans, responsibilities, timelines, reporting schedules, deliverables, and next steps for active assignments.
Serve as a responsive point of coordination for property owners, developers, operators, and other client stakeholders.
Support the oversight of leasing portfolio activity, including availability, traffic, applications, deal flow, concessions, reporting, and other relevant performance indicators.
Coordinate recurring client reporting and help translate leasing activity and market information into clear, decision-useful updates.
Organize brokers and project contributors around client priorities, outstanding requests, key decisions, and required follow-up.
Manage the preparation of proposals, presentations, pitch materials, market analyses, leasing reports, and other client-facing deliverables.
Track prospective opportunities, active pursuits, target accounts, and relationship follow-up.
Support the transition of newly secured business from pitch and onboarding into active assignment management.
Prepare meeting agendas, project updates, action-item summaries, and follow-up communications.
Identify potential delays, execution gaps, or unclear responsibilities and work with the appropriate stakeholders to resolve them.
Develop practical workflows, templates, trackers, and project-management standards that improve consistency across the platform.
Provide direct project-management support to platform leadership and assist with additional client-focused initiatives as needed.

Requirements

Approximately 3–5 years of relevant professional experience in residential leasing, real estate project management, brokerage operations, portfolio operations, property management, asset management, new development, or a closely related field.
Demonstrated successful experience supporting or overseeing residential leasing activity across an individual property or portfolio of properties.
Direct working experience coordinating with property owners, asset managers, brokers, onsite leasing teams, and property-management firms.
Practical understanding of residential leasing operations, including availability, traffic, applications, deal flow, concessions, reporting, and portfolio performance.
Experience managing complex assignments involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
Ability to communicate credibly and professionally with owners, developers, operators, senior brokers, and executives.
Experience preparing or coordinating proposals, presentations, leasing reports, market analyses, and other professional client-facing materials.
Proven ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and priorities simultaneously.
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Strong organizational ability, attention to detail, judgment, and follow-through.
Ability to identify unresolved issues, clarify responsibilities, and advance work with limited supervision.
High degree of professionalism, discretion, accountability, and responsiveness.
Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams.
Experience using project-management, customer relationship management, leasing, property-management, or pipeline-tracking systems.
Experience within the New York City residential real estate market.
Experience supporting new development, multifamily, luxury rental, lease-up, repositioning, or multi-property portfolio assignments.
Established experience working for or alongside a residential owner, developer, brokerage, property-management company, or leasing advisory business.
Familiarity with leasing reports, rent rolls, availability reports, traffic reporting, application pipelines, conversion metrics, concessions, and competitive market analyses.
Experience coordinating the launch, stabilization, or ongoing performance management of residential leasing assignments.
Experience supporting business development, pitches, proposals, client onboarding, and ongoing account service.
Experience improving internal workflows, reporting practices, and accountability systems.
Experience working directly with senior leadership in a growing or entrepreneurial business environment.

Skills

Project management
Residential leasing
Brokerage coordination
Client service
Business development
Portfolio management
Communication
Organization
Attention to detail
Judgment
Follow-through
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Teams

Location

New York City

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
3-5 years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in real estate, business, finance, project management, urban planning, or a related discipline.

About the Company

Douglas Elliman Development Marketing is a leading firm in the real estate industry, focused on residential development marketing.
The company is experiencing a period of growth and development.