Assistant Property Manager

Lincoln Property Company operates at a scale that most candidates don't fully appreciate until they're inside it: over 720 million square feet of commercial space under management across office, industrial, retail, and beyond. For someone early in a commercial property management career, that scale matters. It means depth of process, real mentorship infrastructure, and exposure to asset types that smaller shops simply can't offer.

This Assistant Property Manager role in Austin supports a property or portfolio spanning commercial, industrial, or retail assets. The day-to-day is genuinely varied. You might start the morning reviewing vendor invoices against the management agreement and authorization limits, shift into coordinating an operating expense reconciliation with the accounting team, and end the afternoon walking a space during a tenant move-out with the PM and a tenant improvement crew. Lease administration runs through the role consistently: setup, modifications, system updates, and the documentation that keeps everything clean for reporting.

Monthly reporting and budget packages are a core responsibility, and accuracy matters here. Clients expect complete, timely packages, and the APM role is where those habits form. If you've touched CAM reconciliations before, even in a supporting capacity, you'll recognize the coordination required between property operations and accounting to get OpX right.

What Positions You Well

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of coursework and hands-on commercial real estate experience
• Solid comfort with Microsoft Office, plus familiarity with AP platforms and CMMS tools
• Exposure to commercial office, retail, or industrial assets
• The ability to read financial terms and work through intermediate calculations, percentages, discounts, basic financial analysis
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, particularly in tenant-facing situations where tone shapes relationships
• Current authorization to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship

This is a fully in-office position in Austin, which is worth stating plainly. You'll be on property, attending walk-throughs, and present for the kind of relationship-building that commercial tenants expect from their management contacts.

From a career arc perspective, the APM seat in commercial management is where financial fluency and operational instinct develop together. Candidates who treat the reporting and reconciliation work seriously, not just the tenant relations side, tend to move into Property Manager roles faster. The exposure to procurement, vendor management, and budget cycles here compounds quickly. A few years in a role like this, with a firm that manages across asset classes at Lincoln's scale, builds a resume that opens doors in fee management, asset management, and institutional ownership roles alike.

Strong candidates for this kind of position bring curiosity about the numbers, not just tolerance for them. If you find yourself wanting to understand why a CAM reconciliation landed the way it did rather than just processing it, that instinct is exactly what accelerates growth here.