[Hiring] Real Estate Legal Transaction Manager @Boundless Life

Role Description

Boundless Life is seeking a highly capable Real Estate Legal Transaction Manager to join our Real Estate & Expansion team and support the growth of our global portfolio across eight active markets today, an active expansion pipeline.

The ideal candidate will bring solid, hands-on experience in commercial real estate legal practice — with a particular focus on complex, multi-jurisdictional lease negotiations and hybrid deal structures (leases with management, operating, or revenue-share components).

This role will serve as a dedicated legal transaction partner to the Real Estate & Expansion team, reporting directly to the General Legal Counsel and working shoulder-to-shoulder with our Global Head of Real Estate, in-house counsel, external local counsel, and business stakeholders across each market.

A core focus of the role is the negotiation, drafting, and interpretation of commercial and residential leases, together with all associated ancillary documents:

• LOIs
• Addenda
• Side letters
• Management agreements
• SNDAs
• Estoppels
• Guarantees
• Building/regulatory authorizations

Beyond transactional execution, the successful candidate will help build the legal-operational backbone of a fast-growing global platform:

• Standardizing playbooks
• Coordinating local counsel across jurisdictions
• Translating legal risk into commercially usable guidance for the business

Boundless Life operates across eight very different legal environments, with active expansion pipeline adding further complexity. Candidates must be comfortable quickly grasping the intricacies of new jurisdictions, working through unfamiliar frameworks with local counsel, and holding the commercial line while doing so.

This position reports to the General Counsel, with a strong working line into the Head of Real Estate & Expansion. Location is flexible (remote-friendly, EMEA time zone preferred), with regular travel expected to active and prospective markets.

Qualifications

• Law degree (JD, LLB, Licenciatura en Derecho, or foreign equivalent) from an accredited institution. LLM or dual-jurisdiction qualification is a plus.
• Qualified to practice law in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
• Minimum of 5 years of direct experience in commercial real estate, contract management and leasing practice OR 7 years dealing with high volume complex commercial agreements.
• A background combining top-tier law firm training with in-house exposure is strongly preferred.
• Prior experience in hospitality, coliving, education, or multi-jurisdictional real estate portfolios is a significant plus.
• Excellent professional proficiency in both English and Spanish, spoken and written.
• Working proficiency in one or more of: Portuguese, Italian, French, or Japanese is a strong plus.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly grasp the intricacies of new legal systems.
• Proven ability to identify novel and complex legal issues.
• Takes full ownership of work product with minimal oversight.
• Exceptional organization and prioritization skills.
• Willing and able to travel regularly (indicatively 15–25% of the time).
• Collaborative, low-ego, mission-aligned cultural fit.

Requirements

• Lead the drafting and negotiation of a diverse deal flow, including commercial leases, residential portfolio leases, and management agreements.
• Manage and quality-control external local counsel across our active and expansion markets.
• Provide legal interpretation of the existing lease portfolio and day-to-day support to Operations, Finance, Local Hosts, and Community teams.
• Lead legal due diligence on new locations and strategic initiatives.
• Help build the RE Legal function from the inside out: templates, redline playbooks by jurisdiction, approval workflows, and lease management processes.
• Deliver timely, commercially oriented legal advice to internal stakeholders.
• Support the resolution of landlord, tenant, and vendor disputes across markets.

Company Description

Boundless Life is a family-focused living, working and academy operator building a new model for how families live, their children learn, and parents work around the world.

We offer families the infrastructure to spend one, three, or 6+ months living in a new country:

• Fully furnished homes
• Dedicated coworking hubs
• Academy project-based learning programs for children ages 1.5 - 14.9 years old

Our members are professionals, entrepreneurs, remote workers, and their families who want their children to grow up as global citizens without pausing their careers or their kids' education.

The future of family life and work is global, seamless, and community-driven — and we are building it.