About The Position

We are seeking an Asset Management Associate to join our New York team and support a growing portfolio of distressed real estate assets across multiple asset classes. The role spans rent-regulated and affordable multifamily, office, retail, and mixed-use properties, with exposure to receiverships and lender-directed engagements. The portfolio is predominantly multifamily. This is a hands-on role with direct responsibility for property performance, operations, reporting, and analysis across a defined portion of the portfolio. In-house counsel supports legal and procedural matters, allowing the Associate to focus on execution. The portfolio includes NYC multifamily assets ranging from rent-stabilized walk-ups and elevator buildings to larger mixed-rent properties, alongside Manhattan and metro-NY office, retail, and mixed-use assets — many in active receivership or workout. The Associate will support portfolio-level performance across both asset classes, including operations, regulatory matters, capital projects, and business plans. This role is best suited to a candidate with three to five years of hands-on NYC operating experience who is ready to move from managing buildings to managing capital, and who wants broader responsibility, exposure to challenging assets, and close access to senior leadership.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in real estate asset management or property management, with hands-on exposure to day-to-day building operations.
  • Familiarity with NYC rent-stabilized multifamily assets and a working understanding of how rent regulation affects operations, leasing, and renovations.
  • Exposure to a range of building types, including walk-ups, elevator buildings, and mixed rent rolls.
  • Familiarity with NYC violation and compliance workflows, including DOB, HPD, and OATH/ECB.
  • General familiarity with NYC tax abatement programs such as 421-a, 421-g, and J-51.
  • Experience coordinating with third-party property managers, vendors, and contractors.
  • Comfort working from leases, regulatory agreements, and other property-level documents.
  • Working knowledge of real estate finance fundamentals, with the ability to read rent rolls, operating statements, and budgets.
  • Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel.
  • High follow-through, sound judgment, and discretion.
  • Collaborative style and ability to partner across teams.
  • Comfort using modern collaboration and documentation tools.
  • Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Active use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) to accelerate research, synthesis, and reporting, with sound judgment around accuracy and confidentiality.
  • In-office presence in New York, with regular site visits across the five boroughs and metro NY.

Nice To Haves

  • Direct experience managing commercial assets (office, retail, or mixed-use), including lease administration, tenant relations, and TI coordination.
  • Working knowledge of affordable housing programs and related regulatory compliance.
  • Experience at an institutional owner-operator, affordable housing operator, or third-party management platform with NYC exposure.
  • Experience managing construction, violations, and capital projects under regulatory oversight.
  • Demonstrated systems and automation instinct — a workflow, tracker, or reporting process built that outlived the candidate's tenure.
  • Master's degree or certificate in Real Estate or Finance.
  • Experience with Yardi Voyager, Yardi Affordable, Yardi Commercial, or RealPage OneSite Affordable; plus AppFolio, RentManager, MRI, CoStar, and PropertyShark.
  • Relationships with NYC affordable housing lenders, owners, syndicators, or agencies.
  • NYS real estate license, or progress toward CPM, ARM, RPA, or CCIM.

Responsibilities

  • Support the development and execution of asset business plans across multifamily and commercial assets, covering operations, capital strategy, stabilization, and transition.
  • Drive day-to-day portfolio performance through reporting, operations, maintenance, and tenant experience.
  • Oversee third-party residential and commercial property managers across collections, vacancy, turnover, compliance, and capital execution.
  • Support transitions tied to receiverships and other engagements, including manager changes and onboarding.
  • Manage residential leasing and renewals across mixed rent rolls; support commercial leasing and renewals on office and retail assets, including coordination with brokers and tenant-improvement work.
  • Maintain compliance with rent stabilization, affordable housing programs, and regulatory agreements, including DHCR registrations and recertifications.
  • Track and resolve violations across DOB, HPD, ECB/OATH, DEP, and FDNY, coordinating inspections, certifications, corrections, and dismissals.
  • Monitor NYC Local Law compliance obligations and deadlines, including Local Law 11/FISP, Local Law 97, Local Laws 84 and 88, Local Law 152, and Local Law 126.
  • Monitor tax abatements and burn-off timelines, including 421-a, 421-g, and J-51; support tax grievances on commercial assets where appropriate.
  • Support capital projects across both asset classes, including façade work, Local Law 11, DOB and HPD violations, building systems work, and tenant-improvement build-outs.
  • Support receivership execution in state and federal court, including monthly estate property (MEP) reports, court support, opening inventory, final accounting, and coordination with counsel.
  • Maintain documentation for receiver borrowing where authorized, including lender draws, Receiver's Certificates, and related reporting.
  • Monitor lender compliance, tax and insurance payments, and escrow and operating accounts.
  • Support lender clients on pre-foreclosure assessments and workout strategies across multifamily and commercial collateral.
  • Review monthly property management reporting against budget and business plan, and draft variance explanations.
  • Reconcile rent rolls, delinquency reports, operating statements, general ledgers, and bank statements, and resolve discrepancies rather than passing them through.
  • Build and audit cash flow models, sale and refinance scenarios, waterfalls, budgets, and reforecasts.
  • Prepare reporting for lenders, courts, investors, and senior leadership, and support portfolio reviews.
  • Conduct property site visits and prepare inspection notes and supporting documentation.
  • Create tools and templates that improve visibility and decision-making.
  • Support due diligence and smooth asset transitions onto and off the platform.
  • Partner across teams to improve processes, documentation, and reporting.
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