SVP of Commercial Development

Company

The company is an award-winning, fully integrated real estate development and investment firm with over 35 years of experience, based in Houston, Texas. Specializing in large-scale master-planned communities and mixed-use developments, the company creates extraordinary, highly amenitized communities that blend residential single-family homes with vibrant commercial, retail, and recreational spaces. The company’s faith-based culture is rooted in stewarding resources, cultivating relationships, and enriching lives through innovative design and robust lifestyle programming. With a vertically integrated approach, they handle development, construction, brokerage, and property management, delivering projects on time and on budget across Northwest Houston, College Station, and surrounding areas.

Position

Our client is seeking an experienced, entrepreneurial Senior Vice President of Commercial Development to lead the vision, origination, underwriting, and execution of commercial real estate developments primarily within Caldwell’s master-planned communities. The role will also selectively source and execute third-party commercial, mixed-use, and build-to-suit opportunities outside of the company’s owned platform to support portfolio diversification, pipeline consistency, and long-term growth.

Responsibilities

• Originate, evaluate, and execute commercial development opportunities within the company’s master-planned communities, with selective pursuit of third-party developments as appropriate.
• Lead feasibility analysis, underwriting, due diligence, and preparation of investment memoranda and recommendations for executive leadership.
• Direct placemaking efforts from concept and visioning through entitlements, design, construction, lease-up, stabilization, and disposition.
• Manage and coordinate external consultants, development partners, municipalities, brokers, and capital partners to ensure projects meet schedule, budget, and return objectives.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with tenants, brokers, joint-venture partners, lenders, and equity partners.
• Provide regular reporting on the development pipeline, active projects, market conditions, and strategic opportunities.
• Build and lead the commercial development function, including systems, processes, and team leadership as the platform scales.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years of commercial real estate development experience with a demonstrated track record of executing projects from inception through stabilization and/or disposition.
• Experience across mixed-use, retail, office, medical, or comparable commercial asset classes. Experience with hotel development is highly desired.
• Strong financial acumen, including underwriting, pro forma modeling, capital structuring, and return analysis.
• Proven ability to operate independently with sound judgment in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Real Estate, or a related field required; MBA or Master’s in Real Estate Finance or Development strongly preferred.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Execution-oriented commercial developer with an ownership mindset.
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on project levels.
• Disciplined, decisive, and motivated by long-term value creation.
• Collaborative leader aligned with the company’s culture, values, and commitment to quality placemaking.

Compensation

• Compensation is commensurate with experience and includes a competitive base salary, performance-based bonus, and long-term equity incentives.