Commercial Leasing Manager

About The Role

Join our dynamic team as a Commercial Leasing Manager and play a vital role in managing the entitlement and permitting process from application through approval. This position involves coordinating with consultants, agencies, and internal teams to secure necessary approvals while building a strong pipeline of qualified tenant prospects for office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use spaces.

Responsibilities

• Manage entitlement and permitting process from application through approval.
• Cook up deals by coordinating with consultants, agencies, and internal teams to secure approvals.
• Prospect prospective tenants for office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use spaces.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of qualified tenant prospects.
• Negotiate letters of intent and leases for office, retail, and ground spaces.
• Prepare leasing materials, presentations, and market analyses.
• Track market trends, competing projects, and tenant requirements.
• Collaborate with brokers, legal, finance, and property management teams.
• Report leasing and entitlement progress to leadership.

Essential Skills

• Leasing
• Entitlement
• Permitting
• Property management
• Commercial real estate
• Real estate
• Municipal entitlement

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• 5–8 years of commercial real estate experience.
• Strong experience in leasing and/or entitlements/permitting.
• Proven tenant prospecting and deal-closing track record.
• Knowledge of zoning, land use, CEQA/NEPA, and municipal entitlement processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Business, Urban Planning, or related field preferred.
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and project management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, CRM tools, and real estate databases.

Work Environment

This position is onsite and site-specific, offering the opportunity to work with a growing company that has a bay-centric mission.