Leasing Consultant (Essex & Merrick)

What You'll Actually Do

Prometheus calls this role a Neighbor Ambassador, and the title reflects something real about how the company approaches leasing. At the Essex and Merrick communities in Portland, you're the first face a prospective resident sees and, often, the person they call when something feels off after move-in. The leasing side is what it sounds like: touring prospects, guiding them through applications, preparing rental agreements, and working to convert traffic into signed leases. The administrative side gets less glamour in job postings but takes up real time. Market surveys, occupancy reports, posting unit availability, keeping records clean. Learn this well and you'll understand how a property actually runs, not just how to close a lease.

Weekends are non-negotiable here. Portland traffic peaks on Saturdays and Sundays, and that's when prospects tour. Your days off will fall during the week. If your personal life is structured around weekends, be honest with yourself about that before applying.

The per-lease incentive, semi-annual bonus, and weekend shift premium mean your take-home can exceed the base rate meaningfully if you're producing. Lease-up bonuses are also listed as applicable, which suggests at least one of these properties may be in a growth or stabilization phase. Worth asking about in your interview.

What You Bring

• Genuine comfort in customer-facing, sales-oriented work. Prior property management experience is not required.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. You'll be drafting ads, preparing agreements, and talking to prospects all in the same shift.
• Self-direction. You won't have someone telling you to follow up on every prospect or post updated availability.
• Availability to work a schedule that includes weekends consistently.
• Creativity and a willingness to solve small problems on the fly. Leasing offices move fast and rarely follow a script.

Context Worth Knowing

For someone entering property management, this type of role builds the foundation for everything else. Leasing consultants who learn the administrative side well, not just the tours and closes, tend to move into assistant manager and then manager positions with real confidence. You'll exit this role knowing how to read traffic trends, understand concessions in context, and recognize what occupancy pressure looks like before it becomes a problem. Those skills carry across any asset class or market. Prometheus also offers tuition reimbursement and educational assistance, which matters if you're planning to grow within the industry and want to pursue credentials along the way.

The company-paid medical, vision, and dental coverage, including dependents, is worth noting plainly. That benefit has real dollar value that rarely shows up in hourly rate comparisons.