Zaest is hiring an Acquisitions & Business Development Manager to find the properties and owners our two businesses run on. It’s a salaried, full-time role with a share of the profit on every project you bring in.

About Zaest

Zaest is a Barcelona real estate company with two arms. Zaest Developments buys, renovates and resells homes, typically projects of €500k–€1m, sold within about eight months. Its real value is in design: each property is redesigned to get the most out of it. Zaest Living provides full-spectrum rental management for absentee owners, looking after both the property and its tenants.

What you’ll do

- Source development properties from owners and agents, ideally off-market, at a target pace of about one purchase every two months, finding homes with potential before they reach the portals
- Screen opportunities against our criteria, build the numbers with the team (purchase, works, resale value), and lead offers and negotiation with sellers through to signing
- Work with our designer and architect from the first viewing to weigh design spend against the resale value it adds, so each project gets the design that pays back
- Feed what you hear from buyers and agents into each brief: which layouts, finishes and features the market pays a premium for
- Sign owners as Zaest Living management clients, from your own network and from the leads we generate, and hand them over smoothly to our property manager
- Build and look after a network of partner agencies with reciprocal referral agreements: we refer sales and lettings to them, they refer owners and properties to us
- Keep the pipeline current in our CRM and review it with the co-founder every week,



sharing what you see in the market: prices, demand and which neighbourhoods are moving
- Assist in the sale of the finished properties: setting the price and marketing plan with our partner agencies, bringing buyers from your own network, and supporting negotiations through to completion

What we’re looking for

- 4–5 years in the Barcelona residential market, ideally at a local agency, with a track record of closed sales or acquisitions
- A network of owners and agents you can call in your first week, including off-market sources, and the trust to hear about properties first
- A good eye for a property’s potential and the price it should trade at, and an interest in what good design adds to a home
- English and Spanish; other European languages a plus
- Self-driven and organised: comfortable with targets, a CRM and a weekly pipeline review, and keen to help build a small company rather than just close deals

Compensation A fixed salary plus two kinds of variable pay, so your income rises with the quality of the deals and clients you bring. There is no fee for closing a purchase; you earn when a project sells well.

- Base salary: Competitive, set by candidate experience
- Development profit pool: A share of each project’s profit, paid when it sells; the better the project performs, the bigger the share
- Referral fees: A share of the fees on management clients and referrals you bring in

How it grows. Your pay scales with the success of the projects themselves. The more projects you bring in, and the better they perform, the more you earn.

How to apply

- Apply through this LinkedIn post with your CV and a few lines on the deals you’ve closed recently

📌 Acquisitions & Business Development Manager (Barcelona)
🏢 Zaest Living
📍 Barcelona