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About the Role

The Office of the City Administrator, Real Estate Division (RED) is seeking an experienced Real Estate Transactions Manager to lead the Transaction Team and oversee a diverse portfolio of complex real property transactions on behalf of City departments. This role is responsible for the performance and effective delivery of the Division’s transaction program, including commercial leases, acquisitions, conveyances, easements, license and other real property agreements. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high-impact public real estate program by combining commercial real estate expertise with strong people leadership, strategic thinking, and disciplined project management.

Responsibilities

Plans, directs, and evaluates the work of the Transactions Team, establishing expectations for quality, timeliness, accountability, and professional performance.
Supervises, develops, and evaluates professional and administrative staff; promotes effective communication, collaboration, peer review, knowledge sharing, and timely escalation of significant issues.
Allocates and assigns staff resources based on organizational priorities, workload, transaction complexity, and staff capacity.
Evaluates new project requests, including feasibility, readiness, priority, and resource requirements.
Advises the Real Estate Director and Deputy Director on significant transactions, program performance, emerging risks, policy issues, and operational improvements.
Represents RED with City leadership, elected officials, policy-making bodies, client departments, and other stakeholders.
Effectively communicates and presents real estate strategies, recommendations, and complex transaction matters.
Oversees a pipeline of complex real estate transactions from intake through negotiation, approval, execution, and implementation, ensuring projects advance in a timely and coordinated manner.
Develops and guides transaction and negotiation strategies that leverage market conditions, property-specific factors, valuation and financial analysis, and the City’s negotiating position to secure favorable economic and business terms and ensure responsible stewardship of public resources.
Monitors schedules, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and outstanding decisions across the Transactions Team's pipeline.
Identifies transactions that are delayed, at risk, or require management intervention and works collaboratively with staff, client departments, legal counsel, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and advance work.
Provides strategic real estate advice to Division leadership and client departments on complex transactions, market conditions, portfolio opportunities, and real estate risks.
Directs and reviews market, financial, valuation, and other due diligence activities and analyses to inform transaction strategy, negotiations, and recommendations.
Evaluates transaction alternatives and recommends strategies that balance economics, operational requirements, timing, flexibility, risk, and long-term value to the City.
Oversees the selection and effective use of brokers, appraisers, title companies, and other real estate consultants to support transaction and portfolio objectives.
Oversees administration of the City’s portfolio of more than 200 active leases, ensuring critical dates, options, notice requirements, rent adjustments, and other contractual obligations are proactively managed to protect the City’s interests and avoid missed deadlines or opportunities.
Develops and implements policies, procedures, quality standards, and operational controls for leasing, acquisitions, conveyances, and other real property transactions.
Ensures compliance with applicable City policies, approval processes, documentation standards, and legal or regulatory requirements.

Requirements

Possession of a Baccalaureate degree from an accredited university.
Five (5) years of verifiable professional experience managing complex commercial real estate transactions from negotiation through approval, execution, and implementation, including acquisitions, dispositions, leases, easements, licenses, and other real property agreements.
At least three (3) years of experience supervising professional staff.
Additional years of experience may substitute for up to 2 years of required degree.
One year (2,000 hours) of additional qualifying experience will be considered equivalent to 30 semester/45 quarter units.
Applicants must meet minimum qualification requirements by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.
Every application is reviewed to ensure that you meet the minimum qualifications as listed in the job ad.
Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point in the application and/or departmental selection process.
After application submission, candidates deemed qualified must complete all subsequent steps to advance in this selection process, which includes completion of a supplemental questionnaire at the time of application.

Skills

Leadership
Strategic Commercial Real Estate Negotiation
Communication
Collaboration
Executive Advising
Risk Management
People Management
Program Management
Organization

Location

San Francisco

Work Type

Full Time
Permanent Exempt

Experience Level

Managerial
Supervisory

Education Level

Baccalaureate degree

Benefits

Employee Benefits Overview

About the Company

The Office of the City Administrator and its 20+ divisions and departments operate core internal and public-facing services in San Francisco.
Our vision is to lead the nation in public administration and to enable City departments to effectively deliver critical public services.
We aim to help the city run better, to connect San Francisco residents and constituents to the vital public services they seek, and to create a meaningful and diverse work culture that is the place of choice for people who are invested in a career in public service.
We are committed to ensuring that City services are inclusive, efficient, equitable, and culturally competent for San Franciscans of all races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, and sexual orientations.
This commitment requires comprehensive review and thorough analysis of existing practices and policies to remove barriers to real inclusion.
We are also committed to ensuring that we have a safe, equitable, and inclusive workplace for individuals of all races.
This includes creating opportunities for hiring, promotion, training, and development, for all employees, including but not limited to, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).
The Office of the City Administrator, Real Estate Division (RED) is a team of more than 300 staff delivering professional real estate services to a variety of City departments.
RED supports San Francisco’s public mission by delivering two essential services: Real Estate Transactions and Property Records, and Property and Facility Management.
RED manages acquisitions, conveyance, and leasing of real property on behalf of City departments, as well as conducting and documenting these transactions efficiently, transparently, and in alignment with City policies, operational needs, and reporting requirements.
RED provides services to over 6 million square feet of City-owned property, including civic facilities such as City Hall, 49 South Van Ness, the Hall of Justice, Alemany Farmers Market, Police Headquarters, and other key public assets.
Our property management, building engineering, contracts, security and custodial teams provide operational support to keep City services running safely and effectively.

Equal Opportunity

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply.
Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.