Role: Real Estate Manager Department: Operations Location: Bengaluru, India Experience: 8-12 Years Your Team: You’ll be working with the Network Operations Team. Our philosophy: Break. Believe. Build. Break stuff, break assumptions, break the thumb rule. Believe in the team, the process, and through failures. Build fast, build passionately, build to simplify. Own it like you mean it. What you’ll do: Role Overview Role Overview Own the end-to-end real estate lifecycle for E-Pump sites, including site sourcing, negotiations, agreement management, rent payments, and building a strong land pipeline to support rapid network expansion. Key Responsibilities • Site Acquisition: Identify, evaluate, negotiate, and close new sites in line with business requirements and expansion plans. • Commercial Negotiation: Drive landlord negotiations to secure optimal rental terms, deposits, tenure, and other commercial conditions. • Agreement Management: Own the complete lifecycle of real estate agreements, including documentation, execution, renewals, and escalations. • Rent Management: Ensure timely processing and payment of rent and other contractual obligations across all live sites. • City Scout Management: Lead and manage the city scouting team, setting targets for site identification, pipeline creation, and closures. • Land Pool Development: Build and maintain a strong pipeline of potential sites across priority cities to improve site availability and reduce expansion turnaround time. • Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with landlords, brokers, developers, and internal Legal, Finance, and Business teams. • Execution: Ensure finalized rent agreements are released and executed with landlords within defined timelines. Key Success Metrics Site closures | Closure TAT | Rental cost & commercial terms | Land pool strength | Agreement TAT | Rent payment adherence | City scout productivity Ideal Candidate • 6–10 years of experience in real estate, commercial leasing, retail expansion, or similar businesses. • Strong negotiation, landlord management, and site acquisition experience. • Good understanding of real estate agreements and commercial terms. • Proven experience managing field teams across multiple cities. • Highly execution-oriented with strong stakeholder management skills. About Us: Exponent is building the energy stack powering commercial EVs in India. Our proprietary battery and charging technology enables safe, reliable 15-minute rapid charging while delivering a 3,000-cycle battery life warranty using standard lithium-ion cells. Today, our platform powers high-utilisation commercial vehicles - from three-wheelers to intercity buses, making electric mobility rapid, more reliable and more affordable than petroleum. Founded by Arun Vinayak (Founding Partner & Former Chief Product Officer, Ather Energy), Exponent is a 250+ member team of passionate builders solving some of the toughest engineering challenges in energy. If solving hard engineering problems across mechanics, thermal systems, power electronics, manufacturing, and the charging network, while staying obsessed with customer experience excites you, we'd love to build with you.