Investment Analyst, Real Estate

About Us: 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. Role Summary: We are seeking a highly driven Investment Analyst to join our real estate investment team and support Outpost’s nationwide growth. This role will work directly with senior leadership, supporting all aspects of sourcing, underwriting, due diligence, and transaction execution across our IOS (industrial outdoor storage) and truck-terminal portfolios. This role is based in our Austin office and reports directly to the Managing Director of Acquisitions. Key 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. - Be relied upon to complete timely and accurate analysis regarding critical real estate documents including contracts, financial statements, leases, loans, and other similar transaction documents. Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Finance, Economics or related field - 1+ 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. This includes underwriting, due diligence, entitlements, title analysis, third-party report management, and consultant oversight - 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. This includes modeling all key valuation assumptions, debt assumptions and partnership waterfalls. The capability to build financial models from scratch is helpful, but reliably auditing and manipulating existing models to meet specific deal demands is equally important. - Rental and sales comparable analysis. Justifying likely market rents, growth rates, and exit cap rates based on previous and forthcoming activity in the marketplace. - Geographic market research and analysis. Identifying positive and negative demand trends that will impact market conditions at the property, MSA, and macroeconomic levels. - Pitching investment opportunities to third-party investors or internal investment committees, including all related memo preparation. - Experience working in entrepreneurial or institutional real estate firms. Benefits: - Title Commensurate with Experience - Comprehensive Benefits Package including Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance - 401(k) Retirement Plan Matching - 20 Paid Holidays - Unlimited PTO - Friday Team Lunches Outpost is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination of Any Kind.