Regional Manager

Regional management is one of those roles where your skills compound constantly. You're reading financials one hour, coaching a struggling Community Manager the next, then walking a property to check on a punch list from last week's inspection. The breadth is the point. Asset Living, a third-party management firm with NMHC top 50 recognition and an AMO designation through IREM, is hiring a Regional Manager to oversee a portfolio of communities in the San Jose, CA market.

The Skills This Role Runs On

Financial acumen sits at the center of this position. You'll develop yearly operating budgets, track performance against them monthly, and write variance explanations for income and expense lines that drift from projections. NOI improvement is the goal, which means you're simultaneously watching delinquency, evaluating concession strategies, and flagging capex needs before they become emergencies. If you can't read a T-12 and spot a problem before ownership does, this role will be uncomfortable.

Personnel management is the other major skill set. You'll screen, hire, train, and when necessary, terminate on-site staff. That includes Community Managers, leasing teams, and maintenance staff across your portfolio. Coaching underperformers through documentation and honest conversations is a real part of the job. Salary increase requests, timesheet approvals, written evaluations: all of it routes through you before it reaches HR or senior leadership.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

On the leasing side, you're responsible for annual marketing plans, occupancy strategy, and making sure your on-site teams are closing traffic, following up consistently, and documenting leases correctly. Resident retention programs, complaint resolution, and move-in experience all fall under your oversight. If a site is bleeding traffic and concessions are climbing, you're the one diagnosing why and adjusting.

Administratively, you'll monitor vendor invoices, manage property closeouts, review contracts for larger projects, and keep an eye on maintenance responsiveness and service request turnaround. Emergency response coordination across your portfolio is part of the job too, and in a market like San Jose, that can mean everything from seismic preparedness protocols to after-hours habitability issues.

• Proven experience as a Regional or multi-site property manager
• Strong financial management background, including budget development and NOI analysis
• Experience hiring, training, and managing on-site staff across multiple communities
• Solid understanding of fair housing regulations and risk management compliance
• Familiarity with marketing strategy across multifamily or related asset classes

What Sets Strong Candidates Apart Here

San Jose is a high-cost, high-expectation market. Residents are sophisticated, and ownership groups at this level don't have patience for reporting errors or missed closeouts. The Regional Managers who do well in third-party management environments like Asset Living's are the ones who understand that their job is to make ownership confident, not just to keep properties running. That means your financial reports need to be clean, your variance commentary needs to be honest, and your sites need to reflect consistent standards whether you were there last week or last month. Asset Living operates across multifamily, affordable housing, student housing, build-to-rent, and single-family rental divisions, so exposure to more than one asset class is genuinely useful here.