Publicly traded REIT owning and operating urban rental apartment communities
Equity Residential is a Chicago-based apartment REIT focused on urban and dense suburban rental communities across major U.S. metros. Hiring is accelerating and skews heavily toward on-site operations and leasing roles at mid and junior levels, pointing to frontline property staffing rather than tech build-out. The stack pairs construction tools (Procore, Bluebeam) with an Azure, Terraform and Snowflake data layer feeding Tableau and Power BI.
Equity Residential owns and operates high-quality rental apartment properties and is listed on the NYSE under the ticker EQR. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Chicago, the company holds roughly 78,000 apartments in markets including Southern California, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Austin/Dallas, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Boston and New York. It employs about 2,600 people across property management, leasing, facilities maintenance and corporate functions. The company has noted it is now part of Vivmark Residential.
Equity Residential uses Procore and Bluebeam for construction, Azure, Terraform and Azure DevOps for infrastructure, Snowflake, Tableau, Power BI and Essbase for data and finance, plus Jira and Confluence.
Yes, hiring is accelerating, concentrated in property operations and leasing/sales roles in the United States, with smaller openings in construction and finance.
Equity Residential is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and operates apartments in markets such as Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Denver and Washington D.C.
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