Manufactured home communities and RV resorts operator across North America
Sun Communities operates a portfolio of manufactured home communities and RV resorts across the US, Canada, and Italy. The tech stack reflects a property-operations business: Yardi (property management), SAP + NetSuite (ERP), Salesforce (CRM), and AWS/Azure (cloud infrastructure), with heavy use of SuccessFactors for workforce management. Hiring is skewed 97% toward operations and maintenance roles, with just 14 sales and 6 engineering headcount — typical for real-estate-as-a-service operators where capital deployment and site logistics dominate over software development.
Sun Communities and Sun Outdoors operate manufactured home communities and RV resorts as a real-estate portfolio company. The business spans site acquisition, renovation, resident management, and ongoing property operations. The team structure—predominantly ops and maintenance staff—reflects the nature of the work: preparing sites for residents, managing move-ins, handling collections, and maintaining profitability through tight cost control. Internal projects center on asset-level data capture and reporting, capex planning, and portfolio reviews, suggesting ongoing investment in operational visibility across a geographically distributed footprint.
Core systems include Yardi for property management, SAP and NetSuite for ERP, Salesforce for CRM, and AWS/Azure for cloud infrastructure. SuccessFactors handles HR and payroll. Development uses .NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js; operations use Jira, Azure DevOps, and Terraform.
Southfield, Michigan. The company was founded in 1975 and is publicly traded, operating over 150 communities and resorts across North America.
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