Real Estate Director

Description

About Mindspace

At Mindspace, work doesn’t feel like work. Since 2014, we’ve been creating flexible, design-led workspaces across Europe, Israel, and the US where people - startups, enterprises, entrepreneurs, and digital nomads - can thrive. With over 15,000 members in 45 locations, we blend hospitality, style, and innovation so every space feels alive.

Why you’ll love it here

Because at Mindspace, people show up, take ownership, support each other, and keep things moving - even when things change.

This is a high-impact role, working directly with the CEO and senior leadership on some of the company’s most important growth decisions.

About the position

We’re looking for an experienced Real Estate Director to drive Mindspace’s growth and strengthen our existing portfolio. You’ll own a pipeline of new opportunities, including new locations, leases, management agreements and other partnership structures with landlords. You’ll also lead renegotiations and renewals across our existing locations.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can analyze a deal, understand the numbers behind it, turn that analysis into a clear recommendation, and then help get it done.

What you’ll do

• Build and manage a pipeline of on-market and off-market opportunities across Mindspace markets.
• Lead transactions end to end: site selection, underwriting, negotiation, documentation and execution.
• Lead renewals, extensions and renegotiations of existing leases to improve terms across the current portfolio.
• Structure deals across leases, management agreements, JVs and other landlord partnership models.
• Build financial models, business cases and scenario analyses for new locations and strategic opportunities.
• Prepare investment memos and present recommendations, risks and deal structures to senior leadership.
• Negotiate with landlords, developers and brokers, making sure key commercial and legal terms protect Mindspace.
• Work closely with Mindspace’s market managers on sourcing, evaluating and executing deals in their markets, and with Finance, Legal, Design and Operations through approval and handover.
• Support real estate due diligence and portfolio analysis for potential acquisitions.
• Track market trends and competitors to identify new growth opportunities.

Requirements

What we need from you

• 7+ years of experience in commercial real estate transactions, investments, acquisitions or a closely related field.
• Strong hands-on financial modelling and underwriting skills - a must.
• Proven track record of negotiating and closing complex real estate deals.
• Experience with landlord partnership structures (management agreements, JVs, revenue share) - an advantage.
• Experience in flexible workspace, hospitality or commercial office real estate - an advantage.
• Ability to turn complex financial and commercial information into clear recommendations for senior decision-makers.
• Strong negotiation and relationship-building skills, with a network among landlords and brokers.
• Highly independent and hands-on, able to manage multiple deals across markets at the same time.
• Experience working across multiple markets - an advantage. Experience in the German market - a strong advantage.
• Fluent English.
• Willingness to travel regularly across Mindspace markets.

Please submit your application in English.