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Assistant Property Manager jobs are a strong fit for F-1 OPT students with backgrounds in real estate, business administration, or urban planning. Most roles offer full-time hours, which satisfies OPT employment requirements, and many mid-size property management firms have experience working with international candidates on work authorization.
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Position Title: Assistant Property Manager
Your role
This position offers you the opportunity to expand your skills and experience in property management with the largest wholesale data center provider in the world. As Assistant Property Manager, you will report directly to the Property Manager, where you will make an impact on virtually all aspects of the management of this assigned portfolio. You will leverage your in-depth experience to assist with a variety of financial and operational responsibilities including financial reporting, budgeting, accruals, property inspections and customer ticket requests. We are proactive about helping our people grow and develop, and as Digital Realty continues to grow, we'll be looking for proven players to move up.
What You’ll Do
Reporting to the Property Manager, as the Assistant Property Manager, you will work to support your supervisor in all aspects of management for the assigned portfolio, with a specific focus on the financial piece. You will play a key role assisting and supporting the operations and financial responsibilities of the properties within the portfolio, providing various financial reports and accruals, re-forecasts, budgeting and reconciliations. Managing our customer ticketing system and conducting property walk-through inspections will also be a central component to this role. Additionally, we’ll look to you to help organize tenants’ events and oversee other special event coordination as needed.
More Specifically, You Will
- Support the planning, budgeting and control of operating and capital expenditures.
- Assist in the preparation of annual budgets, forecasts, monthly reports, and variance reports, including accruals, heavy financial reporting.
- Assist with accounts receivable and accounts payable, including collection of rent, accruals, payment of expenses, common area maintenance estimates, true-ups, reconciliations, compliance with lease terms, and preparation of all related documentation.
- Respond to customer requests and needs; coordinate efforts with Property Management and Technical Operation teams to resolve issues.
- Oversee selection and performance of vendor services, including preparation of requests for proposal and service agreements; monitor vendor performance against service level agreements.
- Schedule and facilitate maintenance with vendors and customers.
- Perform property inspections on a regular basis; make recommendations to maintain and enhance the assigned property portfolio.
- Maintain a strong relationship with the Asset Manager and Technical Operations team for the assigned portfolio to ensure that all corporate objectives are being met.
- Document and track all certificates of insurance from vendors and customers.
- Maintain accurate and pertinent information for vendors and customers.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external customers and vendors.
What You’ll Need
- A bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, accounting or finance, preferred; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
- A minimum of three to five years of related experience in commercial property management and financial reporting.
- A proven track record of providing superior customer service.
- Strong understanding of financial terms and principles and the ability to analyze financial statements. You'll also have experience with financial reporting, accruals, and budgeting.
- Proficient computer skills, including MS Office Suite.
- Familiarity and experience with Yardi or a similar property management software program.
- The ability to express ideas clearly in written and verbal communications, including the capability to create complex financial and business related documents.
- Experience working in a fast paced, high volume workplace.
- Strong organizational skills, time management and detail orientation.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Self-starter mentality and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Strong Property / Construction accounting background are preferred. Data center experience would be a plus.
- Rudimentary knowledge/understanding of electrical and mechanical systems.
A Bit About Us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.
Operations
Our Operations team keeps our customers’ infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values. Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.
Compensation range: $82,000 - $90,000 annually. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay at the time of this posting.
Benefits:
For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.
Job Description
Position Title: Assistant Property Manager
Your role
This position offers you the opportunity to expand your skills and experience in property management with the largest wholesale data center provider in the world. As Assistant Property Manager, you will report directly to the Property Manager, where you will make an impact on virtually all aspects of the management of this assigned portfolio. You will leverage your in-depth experience to assist with a variety of financial and operational responsibilities including financial reporting, budgeting, accruals, property inspections and customer ticket requests. We are proactive about helping our people grow and develop, and as Digital Realty continues to grow, we'll be looking for proven players to move up.
What You’ll Do
Reporting to the Property Manager, as the Assistant Property Manager, you will work to support your supervisor in all aspects of management for the assigned portfolio, with a specific focus on the financial piece. You will play a key role assisting and supporting the operations and financial responsibilities of the properties within the portfolio, providing various financial reports and accruals, re-forecasts, budgeting and reconciliations. Managing our customer ticketing system and conducting property walk-through inspections will also be a central component to this role. Additionally, we’ll look to you to help organize tenants’ events and oversee other special event coordination as needed.
More Specifically, You Will
- Support the planning, budgeting and control of operating and capital expenditures.
- Assist in the preparation of annual budgets, forecasts, monthly reports, and variance reports, including accruals, heavy financial reporting.
- Assist with accounts receivable and accounts payable, including collection of rent, accruals, payment of expenses, common area maintenance estimates, true-ups, reconciliations, compliance with lease terms, and preparation of all related documentation.
- Respond to customer requests and needs; coordinate efforts with Property Management and Technical Operation teams to resolve issues.
- Oversee selection and performance of vendor services, including preparation of requests for proposal and service agreements; monitor vendor performance against service level agreements.
- Schedule and facilitate maintenance with vendors and customers.
- Perform property inspections on a regular basis; make recommendations to maintain and enhance the assigned property portfolio.
- Maintain a strong relationship with the Asset Manager and Technical Operations team for the assigned portfolio to ensure that all corporate objectives are being met.
- Document and track all certificates of insurance from vendors and customers.
- Maintain accurate and pertinent information for vendors and customers.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external customers and vendors.
What You’ll Need
- A bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, accounting or finance, preferred; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
- A minimum of three to five years of related experience in commercial property management and financial reporting.
- A proven track record of providing superior customer service.
- Strong understanding of financial terms and principles and the ability to analyze financial statements. You'll also have experience with financial reporting, accruals, and budgeting.
- Proficient computer skills, including MS Office Suite.
- Familiarity and experience with Yardi or a similar property management software program.
- The ability to express ideas clearly in written and verbal communications, including the capability to create complex financial and business related documents.
- Experience working in a fast paced, high volume workplace.
- Strong organizational skills, time management and detail orientation.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Self-starter mentality and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Strong Property / Construction accounting background are preferred. Data center experience would be a plus.
- Rudimentary knowledge/understanding of electrical and mechanical systems.
A Bit About Us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.
Operations
Our Operations team keeps our customers’ infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values. Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.
Compensation range: $82,000 - $90,000 annually. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay at the time of this posting.
Benefits:
For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as an Assistant Property Manager
Target firms that have sponsored before
Property management companies that have previously hired international employees are far more likely to sponsor again. Search Migrate Mate to filter for OPT-friendly employers with a track record of supporting work authorization for assistant property manager roles.
Align your degree to the job description
OPT authorization requires your job to relate to your field of study. Business administration, real estate, finance, and urban planning degrees map cleanly to assistant property manager duties. Be prepared to explain that connection clearly to hiring managers during interviews.
Lead with your OPT timeline early
Bring up your OPT status and end date before the offer stage. Property management hiring moves quickly, and employers need enough lead time to decide whether to pursue H-1B visa sponsorship before your authorization expires. Surprises at the offer stage rarely end well.
Emphasize property management software skills
Proficiency in platforms like Yardi, AppFolio, or MRI signals you can contribute immediately. Employers weighing the cost of sponsorship need confidence you'll hit the ground running. Technical skills that reduce onboarding friction make the sponsorship conversation easier to start.
Understand the STEM OPT extension if it applies
If your degree is in a STEM-designated field such as real estate analytics or finance, you may qualify for a 24-month OPT extension. This gives employers significantly more time before needing to decide on H-1B sponsorship, which removes a major hiring hesitation.
Get your EAD card situation squared away before applying
Confirm your EAD is active and reflects your correct employment start date before submitting applications. Property management firms run background checks and employment verification early. Any documentation gaps will delay onboarding and can raise unnecessary concerns about your work authorization status.
Assistant Property Manager OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do assistant property manager jobs qualify for F-1 OPT work authorization?
Yes, provided your degree field is reasonably related to the role. Degrees in business administration, real estate, finance, urban planning, or hospitality management typically satisfy the OPT relationship requirement for assistant property manager positions. USCIS does not require an exact match, but you should be able to articulate how your coursework prepared you for the responsibilities of the job.
How do I find assistant property manager jobs that are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate is the recommended starting point. It surfaces assistant property manager roles from employers who are open to candidates on OPT and other work authorization types, saving you from applying to positions where sponsorship has never been on the table. Filtering by OPT-friendly employers significantly improves your response rate compared to general job searching.
Will property management employers sponsor an H-1B after my OPT ends?
Some will, but it depends heavily on company size and prior sponsorship experience. Larger residential and commercial property management firms with HR infrastructure are more likely to have sponsored before and may be willing to do so again for strong performers. Regional and boutique firms often lack the legal resources to manage the H-1B process, so it's worth asking directly before accepting an offer.
Does a STEM OPT extension apply to assistant property manager roles?
It depends on your specific degree, not the job title. If your degree program carries a STEM designation, such as real estate finance, data analytics, or certain business programs, you may qualify for the 24-month extension regardless of your job title. Confirm your program's CIP code with your DSO to determine eligibility before assuming the extension applies to your situation.
What should I tell employers about my OPT status during the hiring process?
Be straightforward and specific. Tell employers you're authorized to work in the United States on an F-1 OPT EAD, provide your authorization end date, and note whether you're eligible for a STEM extension. Property management hiring managers are often unfamiliar with immigration details, so keeping the explanation simple and factual prevents confusion and builds confidence that hiring you is administratively manageable.