Apartment Community Manager - Verdant Peachtree Creek

It's a Tuesday morning and occupancy is sitting at 94%. You've got a lease expiring Friday, a maintenance ticket that aged past 24 hours, and your leasing associate just flagged a prospect who toured twice but hasn't signed. You handle all three before noon. That's the rhythm of this role.

What This Role Actually Involves

AIR Communities is hiring a Community Manager for Verdant Peachtree Creek, an apartment community in Atlanta. This is a full P&L leadership position. You'll own the property budget, drive revenue growth, and keep operations aligned with both company policy and local legal requirements. That means tracking NOI, managing delinquency, and making decisions that affect the financial performance of the asset month over month.

You'll lead a team of at least two direct reports across leasing and maintenance, which requires you to coach toward sales outcomes while maintaining resident satisfaction and service quality. Facilitating leasing activity is part of the job, and commissions for new leases and renewals are built into the compensation structure, so your team's close rate has a direct effect on your earnings. The expected base salary range is $75,000 to $85,000 with a 15% target bonus opportunity.

The standard schedule runs Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00am to 6:30pm, though hours can shift by season or community need. An on-site apartment discount benefit is available if you want to live at the property you manage.

Skills This Role Requires vs. Skills It Builds

You need to arrive with a few things already in place. At least four years of experience in sales, customer service, and asset management, with at least two of those years in a property management leadership role. Familiarity with platforms like Entrata, OneSite, SmartRent, or Salesforce matters here because AIR operates at a scale where system fluency saves time daily. You also need a working command of property financials: reading a budget, understanding variances, and knowing when occupancy trends require a leasing response.

What the role develops is different. Managing to metrics across a team sharpens your ability to coach rather than just direct. Overseeing both leasing and maintenance functions at once builds a cross-functional instinct that transfers directly to regional or multi-site roles later. Community managers at this level who demonstrate consistent NOI improvement and team retention tend to move into area manager or regional positions, and AIR supports that trajectory with paid training, leadership development, and tuition assistance up to 100% for job-related certifications.

• 4+ years in sales, customer service, or asset management (property management preferred, hospitality and retail considered)
• 2+ years leading a team in a competitive, service-focused environment
• Demonstrated ability to use sales processes and performance metrics to drive results
• Working knowledge of property management software platforms
• General fluency with budgets and financial reporting
• Reliable transportation and schedule flexibility

Strong candidates in this role tend to be the ones who treat the leasing funnel and the maintenance log with equal attention. Occupancy and resident experience aren't separate concerns at the community manager level. The managers who advance fastest understand that resident retention is a financial strategy, not just a hospitality habit.