Manager / Senior Manager, Lease Administration & Real Estate Legal Operations

Manager / Senior Manager, Lease Administration & Real Estate Legal Operations

About Carvana
At Carvana, we’re changing the way people buy and sell cars. With an ambitious vision and a fundamentally different approach designed to be fun, fast, and fair, Carvana became the fastest-growing automotive retailer in history. We expanded nationally, went public on the New York Stock Exchange, sold our 1 millionth car, and reached the Fortune 500, all in just eight years. 

Today, with 4 million retail customers and counting, Carvana is both the fastest-growing and the most profitable public automotive retailer, and we’re just getting started. We continue to raise the bar for our customers as we tackle the enormous opportunity still ahead in the largest consumer vertical.  

Working here means being part of a team that embraces change, celebrates creative problem solving, and always strives to be better. At Carvana, you’ll have the opportunity to take on meaningful challenges, learn quickly, and help shape the future of automotive retail. If you’re driven to grow and make an impact as part of a collaborative team, you’ll fit right in. Learn more about what it’s like to work here from the people that already do.

This is a fully on-site position, Monday through Friday, at our corporate HQ in Tempe, Arizona.

What You’ll Do
Portfolio Management Leadership

• Own and lead all lease administration and property management operations for Carvana’s national real estate portfolio, ensuring workflows are executed with precision, contractual obligations are tracked proactively, and the function operates at an institutional standard.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team responsible for day-to-day property management execution; set clear performance expectations, provide consistent coaching and feedback, and drive accountability across direct reports and third-party vendors (including PropertyWorks and similar service partners).
• Serve as the senior relationship owner for landlord communications, escalated counterparty matters, and high-stakes portfolio obligations — representing Carvana as a credible, high-judgment partner in all external interactions.
• Design and own systems and workflows for COI management, quarterly reporting, CAM reconciliations, rent, tax, and utility payment management, insurance compliance, and all other recurring portfolio management obligations — building for scale and for success, not just maintenance.
• Oversee portfolio database integrity; audit data input for all new sites and ensure the company’s portfolio management platform reflects accurate, current, and complete information at all times.
• Develop portfolio intelligence — synthesizing data across real estate, analytics, legal, and operations to give leadership clear, actionable visibility into portfolio risk, upcoming obligations, and growth planning inputs.
• Partner directly with Carvana’s Real Estate and Licensing teams to ensure smooth and successful execution of project launches. Align and coordinate cross-functional dependencies when real estate is added to the portfolio to mitigate operational or launch impediments.

Lease & Real Estate Legal Operations

• Lead review, coordination, or obtaining legal support as needed for landlord-tenant matters, lease renewals or terminations, amendments, and related workflow.
• Manage easement, encroachment, and right-of-way issues; oversee site improvement approvals for lease compliance, permitting, and landlord consent; and act as the team’s point of contact on condemnation and eminent domain matters, coordinating with counsel and appraisers as needed..
• Escalate strategically on matters that genuinely require it, and build the judgment to know the difference.
• Conduct comprehensive lease reviews and abstracts; interpret lease provisions with confidence; identify key obligations, rights, and risks; and provide clear, actionable summaries to real estate, legal, and operations stakeholders with sound business judgment and pragmatism.
• Own estoppel certificates, SNDAs, access requests, subordination agreements, and related legal workflow from initiation through execution — independently managing counterparty relationships, timelines, and documentation, supported by Legal, but run by this team.
• Partner with Legal Operations to continuously identify legal workflow that can be enhanced, improved, or made more efficient — raising the bar on what this function handles independently and enabling attorney resources to remain focused on highest-complexity matters.
• Leverage AI tools responsibly, proactively, and with discipline to build tested, reliable work product and increase team throughput across tasks; bring genuine applied proficiency, not surface-level familiarity.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required. A paralegal certificate, RPA (Real Property Administrator), CPM, or similar professional credential is a meaningful differentiator and will be weighted accordingly.
• 15+ years of directly relevant experience in commercial property management, real estate legal operations, or a corporate in-house real estate environment with substantial transactional and lease administration exposure. Experience spanning property management, LOI/lease review, and acquisition or disposition support is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated legal fluency: you can independently review, interpret, and identify key terms in leases, legal notices, estoppels, SNDAs, and related real estate documents — including easements, encroachments, right-of-way agreements, site improvement/entitlement matters, and condemnation/eminent domain proceedings — and you have clear, experience-based judgment about when something requires an attorney or an escalation.
• Transactional interface experience: you have worked alongside deal teams, brokers, and outside counsel in a transactional real estate context. You understand how deals get done and how to begin planning for properties to be added to a portfolio once they are through diligence or approaching lease commencement or closing.
• Lease commencement and site readiness experience: you have partnered closely with real estate, construction, legal, and operations teams to coordinate lease commencement conditions, monitor site readiness, and work directly with landlords to satisfy lease obligations and critical milestones, enabling timely occupancy and successful site launch.
• Proven people leadership: you have built, managed, and developed individual contributors or small teams in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment; you set high expectations, provide appropriate support, deliver direct feedback, and hold people to outcomes — not just effort.
• Independent operator: you execute at a high level under strategic guidance without requiring task-level direction; you make decisions, own outcomes, proactively communicate when course correction is needed, and escalate the right things at the right time.
• Advanced and applied AI proficiency: not just willingness to learn — a demonstrated track record of building reliable, tested workflows using AI tools to increase the quality and speed of legal and operational work product. This is a real requirement, not a checkbox.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), Adobe Acrobat, DocuSign, Wrike, G Suite, and comparable platforms.
• Superior organizational discipline, advanced attention to detail, and the initiative to build and continuously improve systems rather than maintain the status quo.
• Enthusiasm and capacity to thrive in a rapidly growing, high-performance environment where the role will evolve as the company scales — and where the best people run toward that, not away from it.

What we’ll offer in return

• Full-Time position with a competitive salary and Carvana stock compensation.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
• 401K with company match.
• A multitude of perks including student loan payments, discounts on vehicles, benefits for your pets, and much more.
• A great wellness program to keep you healthy and happy both physically and mentally.
• Access to opportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge with others across the organization.
• A company culture focused on high performance and bar-raising, with vast opportunity to learn and grow.

Other requirements
To be able to do your job at Carvana, there are some basic requirements we want to share with you.

• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English.

Of course, we’ll make any reasonable accommodations for those with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their jobs. 

Legal stuff
Hiring is contingent on passing a complete background check.  This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Carvana is an equal employment opportunity employer.  All applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.  Carvana also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.

Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.