About BrandView Capital Partners
Imagine a vehicle for creating generational wealth through unique and unparalleled commercial real estate investments. At BrandView Capital Partners, we specialize in acquiring distressed properties in exceptional locations and transforming them into iconic, high-performing mixed-use assets.
We're a team of value-add investors, hands-on operators, and strategic problem solvers at the nexus of finance, real estate, design and business who care deeply about making an immediate impact for our investors, tenants and communities. Learn more about our passion for commercial real estate investing and our operating principles of high performance, 360-degree growth and innovation at BrandView Inc.
Mission
BrandView is rapidly evolving, and we are seeking an exceptional and dynamic Chief of Staff who can seamlessly blend chaos with structure to prepare our company to scale in 2024. The Chief of Staff will work alongside and serve as the right hand to the Founder & Managing Principal to help the firm achieve its mission: To be the world’s best investor-operator of mixed-use buildings in exceptional locations.
About the Role
As Chief of Staff at BrandView, you will embody a strategic thinker, project executor and systems designer passionate about growing within a real estate investment platform. This role will be crucial in staying ten steps ahead of the team, handling operational challenges and day-to-day issues, connecting dots across all departments, and enabling our team to focus on their strengths to deliver their best work. This is an intense and entrepreneurial position that offers significant opportunities for increasing responsibility, impacting our growth, and shaping the company's evolution. Ambition is key, and you can expect this role to evolve over time. At BrandView, the Chief of Staff will be a member of our leadership team and will be a dynamic individual poised to grow into a Chief Operating Officer.
Job Functions / Responsibilities
This role is equal parts business operations and asset-level execution within real estate private equity investment. Some of the key responsibilities you should expect are the following:
- Asset-Level Execution: Quarterback, manage and drive all asset value-creating processes including:
- Building capital expenditure and tenant improvement projects through various phases of the project development including design, bidding, permitting, and construction
- Integrate with Property Management, Leasing, Investments, Accounting, and Legal functions to develop schedules, budgets and deliver quality, on-time/on-budget projects
- Work closely with accounting to track weekly project costs; provide timely communication with all project stakeholders on the status of the project
- Ensure compliance with BrandView standards for bids, contracts, accounting, construction safety, and code compliance
- Manage and optimize leasing and property management processes across retail, creative office and multifamily spaces
- Coordinate and prepare quarterly asset management and financial reporting reports to investors for all operating properties
- Work with city building inspectors, municipal officials, and third-party contractors to facilitate project permits, compliance, and delivery
- Onboard and supervise construction contractors, engineers, architects, and consultants
- Business Operations: Develop, prioritize and manage company strategic roadmap to scale business operations:
- Serve as “Integrator” to lead and implement EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to prioritize key business initiatives and drive day-to-day operations across Finance, Marketing, Admin, Investor Relations and Asset Management
- Develop quarterly goals and drive weekly action plans that align to our annual goals
- Own and prepare meeting agendas, materials and coordinate follow up with key stakeholders both internally and externally
- Ensure streamlined processes, goal achievement, accountability and professional development among our team
- Own hiring and foster vibrant and high performing culture of key consultants & full-time A-players
- Configure and optimize tech stack to create maximum efficiency and operating leverage
- Special Projects:
- Manage cross-functional projects from inception to transition, ensuring they align with business priorities and timelines
- Work with Managing Principal to identify, test and execute opportunities for new lines of revenue and key business differentiators, developing solutions and processes to achieve business objectives, growth and profitability
- Collaborate and co-own high-impact strategic projects with the Founder & Managing Principal
- Maintain capital raising presentations and relationship management
- Oversee third-party asset management advisory engagements
- Expand into new investment submarkets within SoCal and NorCal
- Manage Founder’s executive brand and thought leadership calendar
About You, A-Player Defined:
- You're a proven platform builder, passionate about commercial real estate investment and development. Particularly creating a business machine to acquire and add value to mixed-use properties in high barrier-to-entry locations
- You have project management expertise in commercial real estate investment and asset management. You have a demonstrated track record of planning and delivering results in business and asset-level operations and executing special projects.
- Execution. You ****have the skill to execute a vision. You are fanatical about details, results and driving everyone to execute the business plan. You are highly resourceful and feel at home managing complex projects, both large and small, and are a master of follow-through.
- Leading, managing, and holding people accountable. You love building, running and improving the day-to-day aspects of the business. You enjoy being accountable for profit and loss, and for the execution of the business plan. Your remove obstacles so people can execute. You operate at a detailed level.
- Own Every Detail. Every piece of work you produce, whether written or graphic, is a testament to your impeccable attention to detail.
- You are an organizational powerhouse. You are a master of planning and coordination, able to juggle multiple priorities and ideas while keeping every piece highly organized. You can proudly reference past projects that demanded these skills.