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Company Description Kestrel Portfolio is a lease administration and accounting software platform for global retail groups. We are based in the Netherlands. English is our working language. We are a startup. We are hiring two lease data leads to join our team. Companies throw their lease contracts and related documents at us and we turn them into useful structured data to meet their operational, commercial, legal, financial and accounting needs. We automate away as much of the pain and tedium as possible. The world's best-known retail brands look global. Their real estate is PAINFULLY local. Kestrel does the very, very dirty work that lets a global company move seamlessly across a global portfolio with confidence. Come help us be better at retail lease admin than anyone else in the world. We think there is good money and a good career in it and we have a reasonable amount of fun doing things that are incredibly niche and deceptively difficult. What you'll be doing Abstracting leases at scale. Thousands of leases, amendments, side letters, security instruments, and insurance contracts a year, across many countries and languages. This stays hands-on for good. What changes is the pace: as your domain experience grows and the system improves, it becomes easier to abstract leases with more confidence and in less time. We take pride in understanding our clients’ leases better than they do. Improving the abstraction system. Turning what every lease teaches you into better features, better tooling, and better reporting, so the next thousand are faster and more accurate than the last. Shaping the lease platform. Working with product and engineering on everything before and after an abstraction - document processing pipelines, “reporting” from like 50 different perspectives, and better UI/UX. Working with clients. Explaining how Kestrel reads their leases, resolving questions about tricky clauses, helping their teams get started, and bringing what you learn from them back into the system. You won't be doing it alone: you'll work on all of it side by side with Savannah Fischer, Kestrel's founder and CEO. Requirements Being a STRONG reader is a must. Extra points for a humanities, linguistics or philosophy background. You’ll frequently have to take a position on what an ambiguous text means, so enjoying literary criticism and arguing over interpretation is a good sign. Independence - we are a startup and the work is primarily remote. We don't have an HR department. Your past experience must demonstrate that you can thrive with a lot of autonomy and minimal structure. Technologist - do you like learning keyboard shortcuts? Have you ever had strong opinions about the inventory UX in a video game? The job is not software development, instead the job is getting the most out of our tools, and making them better. Noticing friction and speaking up about potential improvements is a core piece of the job. Desirable Backgrounds Multinational finance - you've spent time in accounting, controlling, or AP-adjacent roles. Maybe even touched IFRS 16/lease accounting projects. Real estate - you've worked first-hand on commercial leases before. Legal experience - drafting and reviewing commercial contracts. Multilingual - while English fluency is a must, fluency in any of the following is a plus: German, Chinese, Dutch, French, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, or Japanese.

Core Responsibilities

Abstract leases and related documents at scale, interpreting complex clauses and converting contract information into structured data. Improve abstraction tools and reporting, collaborate with product and engineering teams on the platform, and support clients with lease questions and onboarding.

Requirements

Candidates must be strong readers who can independently interpret ambiguous text and thrive in a primarily remote startup with minimal structure. The role also calls for comfort with technology tools; experience in finance, real estate, legal work, or additional languages is desirable.