Leasing Consultant

What You'll Actually Do

This role sits at the front line of student housing leasing at Ion Austin, one of Scion's communities in a city with one of the most competitive student living markets in the country. Your day centers on moving prospective residents from curious to committed. That means touring the community, handling objections honestly, and following up with the kind of consistency that actually closes leases. It's sales work, but it's also relationship work.

Beyond leasing conversations, you'll assist with social media content, help plan and execute resident engagement events, and flag local marketing opportunities you notice in the field. You'll also handle the operational side of community life: package retrieval, maintenance request coordination, office upkeep, and after-hours on-call rotation. The split between sales and administration is real. Some days you're running a tour; others you're troubleshooting a lockout at an inconvenient hour. That's the honest shape of this job.

Turn periods deserve a specific mention. In student housing, the summer turn is the most compressed and demanding stretch of the year. Nearly every lease flips at once, move-outs and move-ins stack on top of each other, and the pace is genuinely intense. If you can perform well during a turn, you'll have earned a skill set that transfers across the entire student and conventional housing world.

What You Bring

• A customer-first instinct. Not a script. Actual listening and problem-solving in real time with a diverse resident population.
• Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities. Collegiate housing environments change quickly and the schedule reflects that.
• Reliability during the moments that count most: weekends, holidays, and peak leasing season.
• Strong written communication for social media and digital outreach, not just in-person interaction.
• Eligibility to work in the United States. Scion is not able to sponsor visas for this position.

Where This Role Takes You

Leasing Consultant positions in student housing are genuinely good career builders, and not just because the work is varied. Scion operates at scale in the student living sector, which means internal mobility is a real path. Strong ETMs tend to move into Assistant Community Director roles, then Community Director positions overseeing the full operation of a property. The skills that compound fastest here are sales tracking, objection handling, and community marketing. Those transfer directly into conventional multifamily leasing, lease-up work on new construction, and eventually into property management roles that carry NOI responsibility.

The candidates who stand out in this role aren't necessarily the most extroverted. They're the ones who follow up when they said they would, keep the office organized without being reminded, and treat a prospective resident's concern as something worth solving rather than deflecting. That combination of professionalism and genuine care is what Scion's Experience Team model is built around.