Managing Director of Capital Markets

Posted 3 Days Ago
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Houston, TX, USA
Hybrid
160K-195K Annually
Senior level
Digital Media • Real Estate
The Role
Lead and expand the firm's capital markets platform by sourcing and placing debt and equity, cultivating institutional and private capital relationships, structuring and underwriting transactions, originating new business, representing the firm at industry events, and driving revenue through closed financings, advisory mandates, and strategic capital solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In

Our SelectLeaders client is seeking a highly entrepreneurial, senior commercial real estate professional to lead and expand the firm's capital markets and business development efforts. This individual will be responsible for sourcing, cultivating, and managing relationships with debt providers, equity investors, family offices, institutional capital, private credit funds, banks, brokers, developers, and other strategic partners.

The ideal candidate is a proven relationship builder and dealmaker with an existing book of capital sources, strong knowledge of commercial real estate finance, and the ability to independently create and advance opportunities. This is not a passive internal role. The successful candidate will be expected to actively originate business, attend conferences and industry events, build the firm's market presence, help structure transactions, and work closely with senior leadership to grow the company's debt, equity, advisory, and credit enhancement platforms.

Responsibilities

    Capital Markets Leadership

    1. Help lead the firm's debt and equity capital markets platform across acquisitions, development, refinancing, recapitalizations, and structured finance transactions.
    2. Maintain and expand relationships with banks, bridge lenders, private credit funds, debt funds, family offices, LP investors, institutional equity groups, foreign investors, and other capital providers.
    3. Source and place senior debt, mezzanine debt, preferred equity, LP equity, GP equity, corporate-level financing, and other capital solutions.
    4. Evaluate financing structures, lender and investor terms, leverage constraints, pricing, recourse, covenants, guarantees, and execution risk.
    5. Work with sponsors and internal teams to position transactions effectively for the appropriate capital audience.

    Business Development & Origination

    1. Originate new opportunities through personal relationships, referrals, industry events, conferences, broker networks, lenders, developers, and strategic partnerships.
    2. Leverage an existing book of capital relationships while actively developing new investor and lender relationships on behalf of the firm.
    3. Represent the firm at major industry conferences, lender meetings, investor events, site visits, and networking functions.
    4. Identify opportunities for the firm to provide capital advisory, debt placement, equity placement, credit enhancement, balance sheet support, or other strategic services.

Qualifications

    1. 8+ years of relevant commercial real estate, capital markets, investment banking, private equity, debt brokerage, lending, development, or real estate advisory experience.
    2. Demonstrated commercial real estate finance experience across debt, equity, structured capital, and transaction execution.
    3. Existing and active relationships with meaningful capital sources, including lenders, private credit funds, family offices, equity investors, and institutional groups.
    4. Proven ability to originate opportunities and independently develop business.
    5. Strong understanding of commercial real estate underwriting, capital stacks, loan structures, leverage, recourse, guarantees, covenants, and equity economics.
    6. Experience working across multiple asset classes, including multifamily, hospitality, industrial, office, retail, land, and development, is preferred.
    7. Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship management skills.
    8. Comfortable operating in an entrepreneurial environment with a high level of autonomy, accountability, and direct exposure to senior leadership.
    9. Willingness to travel regularly for conferences, investor meetings, lender meetings, site visits, and transaction-related travel.

    Characteristics of the Ideal Candidate

    1. Natural hustler with a strong sense of urgency and ownership.
    2. Highly relationship driven and comfortable opening doors that others cannot.
    3. Commercially sharp, credible with sophisticated capital providers, and able to speak fluently about transactions and market conditions.
    4. Comfortable wearing multiple hats across origination, relationship management, deal structuring, execution, and strategic growth.
    5. Willing to be directly accountable for producing business rather than simply supporting internal processes.
    6. Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to build a platform, not merely fill a seat.

    Performance Expectations

    Success in this role will be measured by:

    1. New debt, equity, and strategic capital relationships added to the firm.
    2. Opportunities sourced and converted into active mandates or transactions.
    3. Closed financing, equity placement, advisory, and credit enhancement transactions.
    4. Revenue and fee generation attributable to the individual's relationships and efforts.
    5. Quality and advancement of the firm's capital markets pipeline.
    6. Increased visibility and credibility for the firm within the commercial real estate and capital markets community.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years relevant commercial real estate, capital markets, investment banking, private equity, debt brokerage, lending, development, or real estate advisory experience.
  • Demonstrated commercial real estate finance experience across debt, equity, structured capital, and transaction execution.
  • Existing and active relationships with lenders, private credit funds, family offices, equity investors, and institutional groups.
  • Proven ability to originate opportunities and independently develop business.
  • Strong understanding of CRE underwriting, capital stacks, loan structures, leverage, recourse, guarantees, covenants, and equity economics.
  • Experience across multiple asset classes (multifamily, hospitality, industrial, office, retail, land, development).
  • Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship management skills.
  • Comfortable operating in an entrepreneurial environment with autonomy and direct senior leadership exposure.
  • Willingness to travel regularly for conferences, investor and lender meetings, site visits, and transaction-related travel.
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
265 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Our mission is to inform, connect and advance the commercial real estate community to do more business. We aspire to be the most data-driven and humanizing digital media, live events and intelligence platform in the galaxy — and through this effort, drive the industry to greater heights. Bisnow hosts 340+ events a year that are attended by over 70,000 people, 2,000 sponsors and hundreds of speakers. We also publish newsletters and morning briefs that reach almost three quarters of a million executives.

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