Principal, Real Estate Development and Investment

The role

This person will lead the development of large-scale logistics and fulfillment facilities. They will manage the entire lifecycle from site strategy and land acquisition through permitting, design, construction, and operational handover.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain a multi-year logistics real estate development pipeline.
• Lead site selection and land acquisition processes.
• Establish development feasibility and permitting strategy.
• Own the overall development business case and financial returns.
• Set overall design direction and technical governance.
• Provide executive oversight of project delivery and construction.
• Lead commercial strategy for major development and construction agreements.
• Manage development projects as an integrated portfolio.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Urban Planning, Finance, or a related field.
• Approximately 15 or more years of relevant experience in logistics, industrial, commercial, infrastructure, or large-scale real estate development.
• Proven experience completing at least one full-cycle real estate development project.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of development economics, investment analysis, project delivery, permitting, procurement, construction, and commercial negotiations.
• Experience managing significant capital budgets and presenting recommendations to senior executives.
• Strong leadership, judgment, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Professional proficiency in Chinese(Mandarin) and English.

Nice to have

• Experience with a leading e-commerce, logistics, retail, industrial real estate, technology, or third-party logistics organization.
• Experience developing automated fulfillment centers, distribution centers, cold-chain facilities, or other mission-critical infrastructure.
• Experience with build-to-suit development, joint ventures, forward funding, sale and leaseback, or institutional real estate transactions.
• Experience managing multiple development projects or a regional development portfolio.
• Advanced degree or relevant professional qualification in real estate, engineering, construction, finance, or project management.

Before you apply

• Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview – Offer
• The job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date if all openings are filled.
• Coupang may rescind an offer if a candidate submitted false information.
• Recipients of veteran’s benefits or the disabled may receive preferential treatment in accordance with applicable laws.

About the company

Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer. Their services in Taiwan include Rocket Delivery and Rocket Oversea.