Full-Time
General Manager
Updated on 8/7/2026
Deadline 7/17/27
Sares Regis Group
Compensation Overview
$120k - $125k/yr
Palo Alto, CA, USA + 1 more
More locations: California, USA
In Person
Category
 Operations & Logistics (1) |
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Required Skills
Sales
Forecasting
Word/Pages/Docs
Risk Management
OSHA
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
Microsoft Outlook
Requirements
- Five or more years of experience as a General Manager overseeing 300 or more units.
- Excellent problem-solving, interpersonal, communication, leadership, and supervisory skills.
- Excellent sales skills.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, and to write reports and business correspondence.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, and area, and apply basic mathematics concepts.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables where only limited standardization exists.
- Knowledge of property-level operations software, Microsoft Outlook, internet software, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word.
- Successful completion of a background screen and drug test is required.
Responsibilities
- Supervise the overall performance of the property.
- Hire, train, and develop a competent team.
- Manage daily operations directly or indirectly, including reviewing daily rent recommendations and identifying opportunities to maximize income.
- Collect rents and implement timely legal delinquent-rent procedures.
- Ensure resident insurance compliance procedures are in place and screening criteria and policies are followed.
- Ensure resident retention procedures are implemented timely and effectively.
- Complete weekly reports and other required reports accurately and on time.
- Approve invoices and ensure timely and accurate data input.
- Review and analyze monthly performance, complete meaningful variance reports, and initiate annual budgets and forecasts.
- Identify market challenges, educate the staff and regional manager about competitors and market conditions, and create effective marketing plans.
- Ensure recurring contract work, including unit cleaning, painting, and landscaping, is routinely bid to maintain quality and pricing.
- Confirm contractor insurance and lien-waiver requirements comply with policy, and monitor contractor performance quality and timeliness.
- Implement OSHA and other safety procedures, educate the team on safety precautions, conduct routine safety meetings, and maintain up-to-date MSDS information.
- Identify potential repairs or capital projects with the maintenance supervisor.
- Confirm that curb appeal meets corporate and regional-manager standards and identify actual or potential risk-management issues.
- Read, follow, and implement company and employee handbooks, property policy manuals, and other governing documents.