Estate Manager, US

Travelling Estate Manager
San Francisco, CA (Extensive Travel)
Salary: On application, depending on experience, plus relocation package
 
One of our private clients requires an experienced, highly flexible Travelling Estate Manager to oversee a portfolio of six private residences for an ultra-high-net-worth family across the United States.
 
The Role
Based from San Francisco, the successful candidate will hold overall responsibility for six fully staffed, high-end properties spanning both city and country residences on the East and West Coasts. This is a genuinely mobile position involving extensive, ongoing travel between properties, rather than a role based permanently at any single residence. The Estate Manager will act as the family's senior representative on the ground at each property, ensuring consistently exceptional standards, seamless transitions ahead of and following family occupancy, and smooth day-to-day running across the entire portfolio.
 
Responsibilities

• Overall oversight and coordination of estate operations across all six properties
• Recruitment, training, scheduling and day-to-day management of household staff at each residence
• Opening, closing and preparing properties ahead of, and following, family occupancy
• Budgeting, expense management, and negotiation with vendors and contractors
• Oversight of maintenance, repairs, capital projects and renovations across the portfolio
• Management of grounds, landscaping and external contractors at country properties
• Oversight of security arrangements and liaison with security teams at each location
• Inventory management, including household goods, furnishings and valuables
• Coordination of travel logistics and property readiness around family arrivals and departures
• Oversight of vehicles and household equipment at each property
• Financial reporting and regular liaison with the family office on priorities and standards
• Acting as a trusted, senior point of contact for the family across all six households

 
Candidate Profile

• Extensive, proven experience as an Estate Manager or senior household leader within an UHNW, multi-property environment
• Genuinely comfortable with a mobile, travelling lifestyle and frequent relocation between properties
• Highly organised, with strong prioritisation and project management skills across competing demands
• A confident, hands-on leader capable of managing multiple staffed households to the same exacting standard
• Discreet, trustworthy and professional, with a strong understanding of the expectations of private service
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable liaising directly with principals and family office staff
• Full, clean driving licence; comfortable with extensive domestic US travel
• Ability to live and work in the US (this is not a sponsorship position)

 
Package
This is a live-out position with extensive travel required between properties. A generous relocation package is offered. Salary is on application and will be structured according to the calibre and experience of the successful candidate.