Director, Lifestyle Leasing

Kimco Realty Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Kimco Realty is seeking a Director of Lifestyle Leasing to drive leasing performance, merchandising strategy, brand relationships, and deal execution across a multi-market Lifestyle portfolio. The role focuses on sourcing new brands, elevating tenant mix, generating revenue, and repositioning space for stronger uses.

Expect regular travel and leadership of Leasing Associates and Coordinators to achieve team targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required/preferred.
• 7+ years of lifestyle leasing experience.
• Proven ability to negotiate and execute leases, renewals, relocations, and anchor transactions.
• Established relationships with national, regional, contemporary, and emerging brands preferred.
• Proactively source new tenants and establish new brand relationships.
• Strong merchandising instincts and ability to identify creative solutions for underutilized space.
• Strong financial acumen to evaluate pro formas and deal economics.
• Experience managing and developing leasing professionals is preferred.
• Understanding of demographics, trade areas, competitive centers, and rental-rate trends.
• Proficiency in Salesforce or similar CRM; advanced Excel/Office skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead leasing performance, merchandising strategy, brand relationships, and deal execution across an assigned Lifestyle portfolio.
• Bring new and relevant brands into Kimco, elevate tenant mix, generate revenue, and reposition space for stronger uses.
• Actively build relationships with contemporary, emerging, and best-in-class brands across multiple lifestyle categories.
• Travel regularly across markets to engage brands, maintain broker relationships, and stay connected to each market.
• Maintain production responsibility for the portfolio while overseeing Leasing Associates and Coordinators.

Skills

Lifestyle leasing experience

Salesforce

Excel

Negotiation

Brand relationships

Proformas

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Salesforce

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Position Title

Director, Lifestyle Leasing

Location

Houston, TX | Phoenix, AZ | Pentagon Center, VA | Jericho, NY | Hollywood, FL

Full Time/Part Time

Full time

Description

The Lifestyle Director is responsible for the leasing performance, merchandising strategy, brand relationships, and deal execution across an assigned portfolio of Lifestyle assets.

The role is focused on bringing new and relevant brands into the company, elevating the tenant mix, generating revenue, and finding creative ways to reposition or repurpose space for stronger uses. The Director is expected to actively build relationships with contemporary, emerging, and best-in-class brands across fashion, food and beverage, wellness, fitness, beauty, entertainment, and other Lifestyle categories as well as existing brands in the Lifestyle portfolio.

Because the portfolio spans multiple markets across the country, this is a highly relationship-driven role requiring regular travel, face-to-face interaction with brands, strong local broker relationships, and firsthand knowledge of each market.

The Director maintains direct production responsibility for the portfolio while also overseeing any Leasing Associates, and Leasing Coordinators assigned to support it. The Director is accountable for both individual production and the collective leasing performance of the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent, relevant experience considered.


• 7+ years of Lifestyle leasing experience.


• Demonstrated success negotiating and executing new leases, renewals, relocations, and anchor transactions.


• Established relationships with national, regional, contemporary, and emerging brands preferred.


• Demonstrated ability to proactively source new tenants and establish new brand relationships.


• Strong merchandising instincts and ability to identify creative solutions for challenging or underutilized space.


• Strong financial acumen with the ability to evaluate proformas and deal economics.


• Experience managing and developing leasing professionals preferred.


• Strong understanding of demographics, trade areas, competitive centers, and rental-rate trends.


• Proficiency in Salesforce or a similar CRM platform.


• Advanced working knowledge of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.


• Strong communication, negotiation, relationship-building, and execution skills.


• Ability and willingness to travel regularly across a multi-state portfolio.


• Technology-curious mindset with a willingness to adopt new tools, systems, and data-driven approaches to improve leasing productivity and efficiency.

Key Competencies

• Lifestyle brand knowledge and connectivity


• Strong merchandising instincts


• Relationship builder and proactive brand hunter


• Revenue and production orientation


• Creative approach to space and asset positioning


• Strong negotiator and deal closer


• Sense of urgency and deal velocity


• Forecasting accuracy and pipeline discipline


• National perspective with strong local-market knowledge


• Cross-functional collaboration and problem solving


• Team leadership, mentorship, and accountability


• Financial and data-driven decision-making


• Strategic thinking with strong execution

The expected compensation for this role is made up of a base salary and an advance against incentive compensation, in addition to incentive compensation. The expected range for the base + advance is $100,000 - $135,000. The actual compensation will be based on factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, market and business considerations and other factors permitted by law.

About Us:

Kimco's mission is to create destinations for everyday living that inspire a sense of community and deliver value to our many stakeholders.

Kimco Realty® (NYSE: KIM) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) and leading owner and operator of high-quality, open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers and mixed-use properties in the United States. The company’s portfolio is strategically concentrated in the first-ring suburbs of the top major metropolitan markets, including high-barrier-to-entry coastal markets and Sun Belt cities. Its tenant mix is focused on essential, necessity-based goods and services that drive multiple shopping trips per week.

Publicly traded on the NYSE since 1991 and included in the S&P 500 Index, the company has specialized in shopping center ownership, management, acquisitions, and value-enhancing redevelopment activities for more than 65 years. With a proven commitment to corporate responsibility, Kimco Realty is a recognized industry leader in this area. As of September 30, 2026, the company owned interests in 561 U.S. shopping centers and mixed-use assets comprising 99 million square feet of gross leasable space.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.