Real Estate Counsel, Transactions & Development

Flow; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Time Off

Financial

Life at Flow

Job summary

Flow in New York is seeking a Real Estate Counsel to drive the company’s real estate growth strategy across acquisitions, leases, and financing. You will coordinate with operating and finance teams to structure deals that meet business goals while managing risk.

The ideal candidate has 2–5 years of transactional real estate experience, bar admission, and outstanding contract drafting and communication skills, with a collaborative, proactive mindset.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience as a transactional real estate counsel.
• Admission in good standing to practice law.
• Strong business knowledge of real estate finance and operations.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate real estate contracts (acquisitions, leasing, management agreements, financing).
• Manage outside counsel to produce high-quality documents cost-effectively.
• Advise on deal terms to align with business needs and mitigate risk.
• Lead due-diligence for new investments and coordinate DD efforts.
• Ensure compliance with land use and zoning; arrange licensing/regulatory approvals.
• Counsel on key terms and maintain professional relationships with partners.
• Address interpretation issues, assess risk, and make practical judgments.

Skills

Transactional real estate

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Communication

Regulatory knowledge

Team collaboration

Education

Law degree / bar admission

Job description

About the Company

At Flow, we’re reimagining what it means to live, work, and connect. More than just a real estate company, Flow is a brand, a technology platform, and an operations ecosystem spanning condominiums, hotels, multifamily residences, and office spaces. We’re building a new kind of living experience: one that’s flexible, connected, and designed to create genuine community and real value for the people who call Flow home.

Our mission is oneness: prioritizing our residents and their experiences, and fostering connection with ourselves, their neighbors, and the natural world. By putting people at the center of everything we do, we’re creating vibrant, human-centered communities where life, work, creativity, and play all come together in one place.

About the Role

The Real Estate Counsel role is pivotal to Flow’s mission as person will execute on real estate growth strategy with speed and business alignment. From looking at various deal structures to assisting operating teams deliver the greatest experiences, the Real Estate Counsel will be firmly entrenched within the company’s most important operations. The ideal candidate is high-achieving and self-assured but open-minded and equipped with incredible communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts for a wide range of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, leasing, property management agreements, financing, and ancillary real estate documents such as amendments, assignments, SNDAs, estoppels, NDAs and license agreements.
• Manage outside counsel to produce high-quality documents utilizing optimized cost structure.
• Work closely with the Real Estate and Finance teams to ensure deal terms capture all-important business needs and considerations and provide advice to proactively manage the company's legal and operational risks while supporting business goals.
• Lead legal due-diligence and coordinate and support broader DD efforts on all new investments
• Ensure deals are structured in a manner that achieves compliance with local land use and zoning; arrange for licensing and regulatory approvals where necessary.
• Counsel relevant team members on key agreement terms, facilitating a smooth and professional relationship between property-facing teams and our property partners.
• Address lease and agreement interpretation issues, assess risk and make sound and practical judgment calls.

Qualifications

• 2 - 5 years of experience primarily as a transactional real estate counsel (some in-house experience a plus!)
• Admission in good standing to practice law
• Excellent business knowledge of real estate field, including nuances of real estate finance and operations
• Superior contract drafting and deal negotiation skills
• Fast!
• Flexibility, creativity and agility allowing for ability to pivot quickly when necessary
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to code-switch between legal, real estate, executive and layman’s terms'
• Strong organizational and planning skills with the ability to handle a variety of complex agreements under tight deadlines and high pressure
• Proactive by nature and can act decisively
• Team player committed to uplifting colleagues and the company
• Mission-driven

Benefits

We take care of our people so they can do their best work.

• Health and WellnessComprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance and parental leave benefits. On-staff doctor, free therapy through SpringHealth, acupuncture, an Employee Assistance Program, and other wellness offerings.
• Time OffPTO and paid holidays.
• Financial401(k) retirement plan, equity packages, healthcare and dependent care FSAs, HSA-compatible plan options with annual employer HSA funding and pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Life at FlowWeekly catered lunches, wellness classes and employee discounts on Flow hotel stays, grocer products, and merch.

Salary: $170,000 - $220,000

Flow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and hires regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity and/or expression, pregnancy, Veteran status any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, we provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.

$170,000 - $220,000 a year

Benefits

We take care of our people so they can do their best work.

• Health and WellnessComprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance and parental leave benefits. On-staff doctor, free therapy through SpringHealth, acupuncture, an Employee Assistance Program, and other wellness offerings.
• Time OffPTO and paid holidays.
• Financial401(k) retirement plan, healthcare and dependent care FSAs, HSA-compatible plan options with annual employer HSA funding and pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Life at FlowWeekly catered lunches, wellness classes and employee discounts on Flow hotel stays, grocer products, and merch.

Flow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and hires regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity and/or expression, pregnancy, Veteran status any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, we provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.