Property Manager, Real Estate Legal & Portfolio Management

Property Manager, Real Estate Legal & Portfolio Management 

About Carvana
At Carvana, we're changing the way people buy and sell cars. With an ambitious vision and a fundamentally different approach designed to be fun, fast, and fair, Carvana became the fastest-growing automotive retailer in history. We expanded nationally, went public on the New York Stock Exchange, sold our 1 millionth car, and reached the Fortune 500, all in just eight years.

Today, with 4 million retail customers and counting, Carvana is both the fastest-growing and the most profitable public automotive retailer — and we're just getting started. Working here means being part of a team that embraces change, celebrates creative problem solving, and always strives to be better. If you're driven to grow and make an impact as part of a collaborative team, you'll fit right in.

About the team and position
Carvana's Real Estate team operates in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment, supporting a rapidly expanding portfolio of properties for Carvana and ADESA. We are looking for a Property Manager to join our Real Estate team at Carvana's corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona. This role blends day-to-day property management and lease administration responsibilities with hands-on support for core, recurring legal tasks, working closely with our Real Estate Legal team.

The ideal candidate is a proactive, detail-oriented professional who delivers accurate, high-quality work quickly, communicates effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and knows how to responsibly use AI tools to work faster and smarter. This role requires juggling multiple projects and deadlines in a dynamic environment where priorities can shift quickly.

This is a fully on-site position, Monday through Friday, at our corporate HQ in Tempe, Arizona.

What you’ll be doing

• Ability to perform commercial lease abstraction and ensure data integrity of Lease Agreements, License Agreements and Purchase Agreements.
• Audit lease information via Property Works software to ensure key lease administrative deadlines are met and are reflected accurately in internal and external reports.
• Communicate with landlords, including handling landlord escalations and holding landlords accountable to comply with lease language.
• Interpret lease terms in a manner that helps Facilities, Construction and other teams understand core Landlord and Tenant contract responsibilities
• Recognize when lease interpretations require escalation to the Manager of Portfolio Management, or to Legal, for resolution.
• Work with a third-party utility manager to transfer and set up utility services.
• Accurately track property taxes and work with a third-party tax vendor to ensure timely payment.
• Manage COI (certificate of insurance) collection and distribution, and support quarterly reporting requirements.
• Review tenant rent and common area maintenance (CAM) charges to ensure accuracy.
• Support recurring rent payment, tax payment, insurance requirements, contractual obligations, and routine "run the business" property management responsibilities.
• Prepare and deliver timely, accurate operational and financial reports to stakeholders.
• Audit data input for new sites as they are entered into the portfolio database by a vendor.
• Draft, review, and obtain approval for standard legal notices, landlord-tenant communications, and ancillary legal documents, under the supervision of the Manager, Portfolio Management.
• Support lease administration workflow, including estoppels, SNDAs, access requests, and other routine matters.
• Support the management and reporting of critical dates, while coordinating with landlords on matters such as potential buyouts, early lease terminations, and other lease-related negotiations.
• Utilize AI tools to increase speed and accuracy on lease review, document drafting, and reporting tasks.
• Manage lease setup tasks in the project management system.
• Develop and maintain relationships with contractors, landlords, tenants and stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.

What you should have

• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited undergraduate institution is preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in commercial property management, or equivalent combination of experience and education.
• Strong comprehension of lease/purchase agreement language, with the ability to interpret provisions and identify key obligations, rights, and risks.
• Self-starter; able to make good decisions and work independently with limited direction or supervision.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced, results driven, team-oriented environment with multiple de