Leasing and Experience Manager (Carson & Raleigh)

Where Leasing Skill Meets Community Leadership

Most leasing roles ask you to close traffic and hand off the relationship. This one asks you to own it. Prometheus Real Estate Group, a vertically integrated owner-operator with over 13,000 apartments across the Bay Area, Portland, and Seattle, runs its communities under a resident-experience model that treats occupancy as a byproduct of genuine connection, not just conversion. The Leasing and Experience Manager role at their Carson and Raleigh communities in Portland sits at the center of that philosophy, combining sales production, team supervision, and hands-on community programming in a single position.

The title matters here. Where other operators use "Assistant Property Manager" or "Assistant Business Manager," Prometheus has built a distinct role that blends leasing performance with resident relations and team development. You'll close leases and coach others to close them. You'll manage delinquency and concessions alongside planning resident events and following up on service concerns. You'll contribute to occupancy reporting and pricing strategy while also being the person residents trust when something goes wrong. That breadth is the point.

What This Role Requires and What It Builds

To step into this position well, you need at least two years of leasing experience and a genuine comfort with sales. You should already know how to read traffic, handle objections, and move a prospect through a showing to a signed lease. Strong written and verbal communication is assumed. So is reliability on weekends, which is when Portland apartment communities see their highest foot traffic and when your presence on-site is most valuable.

What the role builds is different. Managing a leasing team, even a small one, develops supervisory instincts that carry into Community Manager and Regional roles. Setting goals, running training, and celebrating milestones are skills that compound over time. The exposure to pricing, concessions, and occupancy reporting gives you a working vocabulary in operational metrics that most leasing-only positions never offer. Candidates who move from this role into property management leadership typically point to exactly this kind of dual exposure as the reason they were ready.

A few things that separate strong candidates from average ones in a role like this: the ability to shift register quickly, from a sales conversation with a prospect to a difficult follow-up with a current resident to a coaching moment with a junior leasing ambassador, all in the same afternoon. Prometheus operates with a defined resident experience standard, and maintaining that standard under the pressure of a busy weekend requires composure, not just enthusiasm.

• Minimum two years of leasing experience required
• High school diploma or GED required; bachelor's degree preferred
• Weekend availability is a consistent schedule requirement
• Experience in customer service, sales, or marketing is valued
• Supervisory or team lead experience is a plus, though not stated as required

Compensation runs $29.75 to $31.75 per hour, with a $200 per-lease incentive, weekend shift premium pay, and a discretionary semi-annual bonus. Benefits include fully company-paid medical, vision, and dental coverage for eligible employees and dependents, 401(k) with employer matching, tenure-based housing discounts, and tuition reimbursement, among others.