Investment Associate, Real Estate
Austin · 3-5 years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 2, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3-5 years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Austin
About Outpost
- Outpost is building the backbone of freight. We’re reinventing how supply chain infrastructure works in America with carrier agnostic truck terminals. As a vertically integrated real estate, operations, and technology company, we acquire and operate mission-critical real estate across the country to serve the largest logistics providers in the world. Backed by $1B from Greenpoint Partners, we’re scaling and building the most valuable logistics network in the country.
- We thrive on accountability, integrity, and a shared drive to raise the bar. If you’re excited to reshape the industry alongside a high-performance team with a championship mindset that executes relentlessly, welcome aboard.
About the role
- Outpost is seeking a highly driven Investment Associate to join the real estate investment team and support nationwide growth.
- The role involves working directly with senior leadership to support all aspects of sourcing, underwriting, due diligence, and transaction execution across IOS and truck-terminal portfolios.
- This role is based in the Austin office and reports directly to the Managing Director of Acquisitions.
Responsibilities
- Support the real estate team in all sourcing, underwriting, due diligence, and investor communications activities.
- Perform extensive financial modeling analysis and valuation work on potential acquisitions.
- Interface across Outpost's internal and external functional areas, including executive leadership, external partners, attorneys, brokers, lenders, and other similar parties.
- Prepare investment memos and ancillary reports for presentation to senior management and outside investors.
- Generate, aggregate, and synthesize critical market information from third-party reports and first-party research as part of ongoing asset management and growth initiatives.
- Complete timely and accurate analysis regarding critical real estate documents including contracts, financial statements, leases, loans, and other similar transaction documents.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Finance, Economics or related field
- 3-5 + years of real estate acquisitions experience
- Strong financial modeling skills (Excel required; Argus beneficial)
- Excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities
- Highly organized, fast-moving, and detail-oriented
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams in a dynamic, high-velocity environment
- Extreme career dedication - this will be very hard
Preferred qualifications
- Full-cycle industrial outdoor storage or traditional industrial acquisition experience
- Preparing investment memos, offering memoranda, or similar deal-specific analytical materials
- Building financial models in Excel for developments, individual property acquisitions, or multi-property portfolios
- Rental and sales comparable analysis
- Geographic market research and analysis
- Pitching investment opportunities to third-party investors or internal investment committees
- Experience working in entrepreneurial or institutional real estate firms
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits Package including Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan Matching
- 20 Paid Holidays
- Unlimited PTO
- Friday Team Lunches
Skills
- Excel
- Argus
- Financial Modeling
- Valuation
- Due Diligence
- Market Research
