[Remote] Senior Vice President - Operations & Innovation

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sentinel Net Lease is a commercial real estate investment platform focused on single-tenant net lease assets in the middle market. They are seeking a Senior Vice President of Operations & Innovation to enhance the firm's operational capabilities through AI and technology, manage investor relations, and oversee fund operations. The role requires a proactive leader who can design scalable systems and manage offshore teams while driving high-priority initiatives to completion.

Responsibilities

• Champion AI across the firm. Identify where LLMs, agents, and automation can replace manual effort and sharpen output across IR, reporting, underwriting support, and operations. Build AI-enabled workflows and internal tools the whole team can use, and continuously raise our technical baseline
• Design, document, and own the firm's core processes. Re-engineer fragmented work into scalable systems with clear ownership. Build the playbooks that let us grow AUM without growing chaos
• Build and manage offshore staff who execute routine work to a high standard, with clear quality loops and escalation paths. Manage outside vendors to clear deliverables
• Own the IR function at the strategy and quality level (communications, capital calls, distributions, reporting calendar, and the overall investor experience) while offshore staff handle production. Serve as a senior point of contact for key relationships when warranted
• Connect property-level performance to fund-level returns. Apply a working understanding of fund structures, GP/LP economics, preferred returns, promotes, and waterfalls to validate figures and explain investor outcomes
• Take ownership of high-priority initiatives spanning acquisitions, asset management, accounting, and operations — and drive them to completion

Skills

• 6 to 10 years as a high-performing operator at a CRE fund, investment manager, sponsor, syndicator, or similarly operationally intensive environment
• Bachelor's degree required
• Demonstrated AI fluency with daily, hands-on use of LLMs and AI tools to draft, analyze, automate, and prototype, with a track record of applying them to real work
• Proven ability to design and implement processes, automations, and workflows that scale
• Strong command of fund structures, GP/LP economics, and payment waterfalls; able to read property financials and cash flow analyses
• Exceptional written and verbal communication; translates complexity into clear, concise narrative
• Power-user fluency with spreadsheets, CRMs, and modern automation/productivity tools
• Experience managing people, offshore teams, or vendors
• Entrepreneurial mindset, exceptional judgment, and a relentless bias to action

Benefits

• Performance bonus and deal-level profit participation dependent on experience and performance.

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