Managing Director of Capital Markets (Commercial Real Estate)

TL;DR

Managing Director of Capital Markets (Commercial Real Estate): Leading and expanding debt, equity, advisory, and credit enhancement platforms across commercial real estate transactions with an accent on capital sourcing, relationship development, and transaction structuring. Focus on originating new mandates, evaluating complex financing structures, building strategic partnerships, and converting capital relationships into closed transactions.

Location: Houston, United States; on-site. Regular travel is required for conferences, investor and lender meetings, site visits, and transaction-related activities.

Company

hirify.global is a commercial real estate media and industry platform operating through its SelectLeaders division.

What you will do

• Lead debt and equity capital markets efforts across acquisitions, development, refinancing, recapitalizations, and structured finance transactions.
• Build and manage relationships with banks, private credit funds, family offices, institutional investors, developers, brokers, and other strategic partners.
• Source and place senior debt, mezzanine debt, preferred equity, LP and GP equity, corporate financing, and other capital solutions.
• Evaluate leverage, pricing, recourse, covenants, guarantees, execution risk, and broader financing structures.
• Originate opportunities through personal relationships, referrals, conferences, broker networks, and strategic partnerships.
• Represent the firm in the market and collaborate with senior leadership to grow the capital markets platform.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in commercial real estate, capital markets, investment banking, private equity, lending, development, debt brokerage, or real estate advisory.
• Demonstrated experience with commercial real estate finance, including debt, equity, structured capital, and transaction execution.
• Active relationships with meaningful capital sources such as lenders, private credit funds, family offices, equity investors, and institutional groups.
• Proven ability to originate opportunities, develop business independently, and manage complex transactions.
• Strong knowledge of commercial real estate underwriting, capital stacks, loan structures, leverage, recourse, guarantees, covenants, and equity economics.
• Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship management skills, with a high level of autonomy and accountability.

Nice to have

• Experience across multifamily, hospitality, industrial, office, retail, land, and development asset classes.
• Established credibility with sophisticated capital providers and an existing book of capital relationships.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial environment with direct exposure to senior leadership.
• High autonomy, ownership, and accountability for business generation.
• Regular participation in industry conferences, investor events, lender meetings, networking functions, and site visits.
• Opportunity to build and expand a capital markets platform across multiple advisory and financing services.