Sale Leaseback Vice President (Commercial Real Estate)

Location: Southfield, Michigan, United States; principally in-person with flexibility determined with the supervisor and team.

Salary: $125,000.00–$300,000.00+ base salary for roles in CO, IL, OH, and MA.

Company

hirify.global is an audit, tax, consulting, and wealth management firm.

What you will do

• Originate sale leaseback opportunities with corporations, owner-operators, private equity sponsors, and other capital decision-makers.
• Build and manage a qualified pipeline covering prospects, active opportunities, referrals, and repeat client relationships.
• Develop referral relationships with investment bankers, commercial real estate brokers, lenders, attorneys, accountants, private equity professionals, and other transaction influencers.
• Identify transactions where sale leasebacks can unlock capital, support growth, improve liquidity, or optimize a company’s balance sheet.
• Lead early-stage client conversations, assess transaction viability, communicate value, and create urgency.
• Coordinate with underwriting, capital markets, legal, execution, and capital-source partners from initial outreach through closing; track market activity, pricing, buyer appetite, and competitive dynamics.

Requirements

• Five or more years of successful sale leaseback transaction experience.
• Ten or more years of commercial real estate experience, preferably including net lease, corporate real estate, capital markets, investment sales, or structured real estate finance.
• Proven track record of originating, negotiating, and closing transactions.
• Established network of corporate decision-makers, private equity contacts, intermediaries, and institutional capital sources.
• Strong understanding of sale leaseback structures, lease economics, tenant credit, valuation, due diligence, and execution.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Self-starter with the discipline and persistence to convert prospects into closed transactions.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. Qualified candidates bilingual in Japanese and English or Chinese and English are excepted from this sponsorship condition.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, diverse workplace with equitable opportunities for staff to succeed.
• Workplace for Your Day model supporting flexibility and balance within a principally in-person environment.
• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for eligible staff.
• Flexible Time Off, predetermined holidays, 401(k), flexible benefits plans, and applicable pension and discretionary bonus plans.
• Business-related travel, lodging, and meal reimbursement; some contingent staff positions may elect health insurance and limited paid sick time.