Team Lead

Chicago, IL

About the role

Lessen is the tech-enabled, end-to-end property service provider that is transforming how commercial and residential real estate services are delivered and managed at scale. Lessen’s technology platform provides data-driven insights that unlock key growth opportunities for the entire real estate ecosystem—including investors, owners, managers, and service providers. The company leverages a network of over 30,000 vetted, qualified vendors (Lessen Affiliates) serving clients with over 1 million properties and completing more than 3.5 million work orders annually across an expanding range of services. Lessen, LLC is a venture-backed, privately held company with offices in Scottsdale and Chicago.

The Team Lead will assist District Lead in managing all day-to-day facilities activities for their client’s portfolio within their assigned region. The Team Lead will collaborate with the District Lead for all maintenance requests submitted by the client and will utilize best efforts in resolving the client’s maintenance issues rapidly. Additionally, this position is responsible for creating and developing relationships with internal clients and customers. The Team Lead processes work order requests and ensures timely resolution.

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What You'll Do:

  • Assist in the coordination and execution of the complete work order life cycle from creation to resolution

  • Manage vendors to ensure services are completed within agreed upon SLA’s

  • Collaborate with District Lead to work cross-functionally with other teams to manage vendors in region(s)

  • Develop client relationships; collaborate with key stakeholders in markets to devise solutions to client issues

  • Assist in monthly reporting, forecasting and asset management on all sites

  • Help develop and implement preventative, ongoing and anticipated maintenance/repair programs

  • Assist with development of operating and capital budgets for the assigned

  • Support the creation of work order forecasts by drawing on historical, current, and metric-based data

  • Attend regular client status meetings, if applicable

  • Ensure confidentiality of internal and external data

  • Perform ad-hoc projects and other duties as assigned

What You'll Need:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent facilities management experience

  • 3+ years of facilities management experience

  • Experience with managing multiple vendors for day-to-day work order management and small to large capital projects

  • Client relationship management skills

  • Communication and organizational skills

\n $50,000 - $58,000 a year

\n Why Lessen:

· Competitive compensation

· Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability options

· 401K retirement savings plan

· Paid vacation, federal and floating holidays

· Maternity/Paternity Pay

· Career advancement opportunities

· All the tools you'll need to be successful

Lessen is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. We’re looking for teammates that are enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and will help us amplify the positive & inclusive culture we’ve been building. Lessen is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

About Lessen

Lessen is a technologically enabled, end-to-end solution for outsourced real estate property services that delivers consistency, quality, and speed at scale. This includes primarily single-family and multifamily rental renovations, turns, and maintenance.

Through automation and real-time analytics, the company's technology suite is disrupting and modernizing a project management space that is still reliant on traditional organizational and communication models. Using its proprietary technology platform, its professional field project managers provide hands-on service and leverage a network of vetted service professionals in over 40 markets across the country.

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Job details

Salary

$50,000 - $58,000

Location

Chicago, IL

Company

NameLessen
IndustryBusiness/Productivity Software
Team Size4

Funding

Total raised

$705M

Last stage

Series C

Investors

FFifth Wall
Monroe Capital
IInvitation Homes
Varde Partners
1Sharpe Ventures

Founders

Jay McKee

Jay McKee

Founder & CEO

LinkedIn
GW

Gregor Watson

Co-Founder & Board Member

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.