Floating Property Manager

Floating property manager roles exist because portfolios don't break down neatly. Vacancies at one property, a manager out on leave at another, a lease-up that needs steadying hands on deck. Berkshire Residential Investments built this position to keep operations moving across its East Coast portfolio, and the person who fills it ends up with something most site-level managers never get: a wide-angle view of how multiple assets run at once.

What This Role Actually Covers

Berkshire owns and manages its own properties, which means the floating manager here answers to an internal ownership structure rather than a third-party fee management arrangement. That distinction matters. Decisions carry more weight, and the reporting lines connect more directly to asset performance. You'll work alongside the Assistant Vice President on annual budgets, monthly and quarterly forecasts, staffing plans, and capital planning. You'll also take point on hiring, training, and performance management at each property you cover, which means you need to be able to build trust with a team quickly and hand things off cleanly.

Day-to-day, this role shifts between the operational and the financial. One morning you might be running through a T-12 to understand why NOI is trailing projections at a property. Another afternoon might involve working through a delinquency report or coaching a leasing consultant on traffic conversion. Resident communications, marketing plans, and social content are also in scope. The expectation is that you read a property's condition fast and know which levers to pull.

Travel across multiple locations is a core requirement, not an occasional ask. The preference is for someone based on the East Coast, with a particular lean toward the Washington, DC area.

Who Compounds Well in This Role

Five years of multifamily experience is the baseline. More specifically, the people who thrive here have already managed through a full budget cycle, read a financial statement without needing it translated, and led a team through a rough patch without losing the room. The ability to move between properties without losing your footing is a skill in itself, and it tends to separate candidates who've worked across different asset classes or dealt with varied team dynamics from those who've only ever run one site.

From a career trajectory standpoint, floating manager experience is one of the cleaner on-ramps to a regional property manager role. You're already operating at a multi-property level, thinking about staffing and budgets across a portfolio, and building relationships with senior leadership. Candidates who take this role seriously and document what they learn tend to move into regional or district-level positions with a significantly stronger foundation than peers who moved up through a single-site path.

• Five or more years in multifamily property management
• Demonstrated experience with budgeting and financial reporting
• Comfort managing teams across different properties and cultures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with property management software and financial tools
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly to multiple locations
• East Coast base preferred, Washington, DC area ideal

Berkshire offers three weeks of vacation, a 25% rent discount, and personal development plans, among other benefits listed in their full offer package.