Associate Director, Real Estate Digital and AI
Macquarie Group · New York, United States · 8mo ago
Director & ExecutiveOn-siteMachine Learning & AI$270k – $290k
Drive the future of digital and AI innovation across a global real estate investment platform, shaping capabilities that meaningfully influence investment performance and strategic decision‑making. This role offers a rare opportunity to build new solutions while partnering closely with senior leaders who are transforming how technology enables value creation across private markets.
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone – no matter what role – contributes ideas and drives outcomes.
We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.
This role leads digital transformation and AI adoption across Macquarie Asset Management’s Real Estate investment platform, contributing to strategies that enhance data management, digital workflows, and investment processes. Work spans identifying high‑impact problems, shaping product direction, and guiding the development of AI‑enabled capabilities that support commercial outcomes.
Close collaboration with investment teams, platform executives, and technology partners ensures alignment on priorities, clarity in decision‑making, and progress across complex cross‑functional efforts. Through coaching and partnership with analysts, engineers, data specialists, and designers, the role fosters strong execution discipline and supports delivery across ambiguous and evolving environments.
The role translates strategy into actionable roadmaps, establishes governance mechanisms that guide focus across the portfolio, and ensures new products meet compliance, security, and financial requirements. Attention to adoption and change management helps embed digital solutions that scale effectively across the platform and generate sustained impact.
While Macquarie offers hybrid working for many of our roles, this role does require 3 days a week in our advertised location.
- Proven experience leading cross‑functional delivery teams to build digital or AI‑enabled products that solve complex business problems and generate measurable commercial impact
- Strong structured problem‑solving capabilities, defining high‑value opportunities and shaping strategies that balance execution speed with long‑term scalability
- Demonstrated stakeholder influence, collaborating effectively with senior investment leaders, platform executives, and technical colleagues in matrixed environments
- Technical fluency across data products, APIs, architecture concepts, and modern product development practices within complex organizational environments
- Experience guiding change management, stakeholder alignment, and product adoption across diverse teams, supported by strong commercial acumen and analytical decision‑making
Salary range for this position: $270,000 – $290,000 per year. Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, peer and market data, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. You may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. We offer a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave, Parental Leave and Vacation), Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees.
- 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave
- 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks’ paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
- Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing such as medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account and dependent day care savings account; life insurance, disability, and other insurance plans; 401(k) and short/long term disability
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
- Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
- Recognition and service awards
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
- Reimbursement for work from home equipment
All figures as at 30 September 2025, excluding assets acquired by Nomura on 1 December 2025.
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