Job Description

Position: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Starting Salary: $90,000 - $95,000 (exempt, salaried position) plus benefits

Position Salary Range: $90,000 - $115,000

To be considered for this position, you must send a resume, brief cover letter, and work samples to Robbie Silver, President & CEO at careers@downtownsf.org

Deadline: June 13, 2025

Reports To: VP of Planning & Economic Development

Location: In-person at DSFP offices in downtown San Francisco, California

Who We Are

The Downtown SF Partnership (DSFP) is a private, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing supplemental and enhanced cleaning and safety services, marketing and events, public realm improvements, and economic development to support a clean, safe, vibrant, and memorable downtown San Francisco. Founded in 2020, DSFP services 43-blocks of San Francisco’s traditional Financial District and the Jackson Square through property assessments ($4.8M/year), supplemented by grants and sponsorships ($1-2M).

DSFP’s a leading voice in reimagining downtown San Francisco as mixed-use urban environment comprised of office, entertainment, arts and culture, and hospitality uses, with emerging AI technology and venture capital firms moving into the district. Downtown San Francisco is an economic powerhouse for the city, State, and country. It is small in geographic size accounting for approximately 4% of San Francisco’s total land area but generating up to 70% of the city’s GDP.

What We’re Seeking

As the Economic Development Manager, you’ll join an award-winning, organization working on impactful, highly visible projects and initiatives helping shape downtown San Francisco’s future. Reporting to the VP of Planning & Economic Development & Planning, you’ll work cross-functionally with a professional team comprised of multi-faceted backgrounds and decades of experience. We’re seeking an enthusiastic, thoughtful person who brings subject matter expertise, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a passion for economic development towards downtown regeneration. You can demonstrate experience working in high-functioning team where you thrive on building transformational relationships and very comfortable with navigating environments where flexibility, organization, and drive lead to success.

How You Will Spend Your Time

Program Development, Strategy, and Public Policy

• Identify, develop, and advance economic development opportunities that enhance the district’s livability, vibrancy, and regeneration efforts, in partnership with downtown stakeholders.
• Lead strategies and tactics for ground floor business attraction and matchmaking program with property owners and small businesses.
• Monitor and track policymaking bodies to identify proposals that will impact Downtown SF.
• Synthesize complex information into focused policy fact sheets, action alerts, letters of support, and other advocacy materials.
• Brief DSFP leadership and economic development partners on emerging trends and special analysis that support downtown’s economic development, planning, policy, and advocacy work.

Research, Data Analysis, and Mapping

• Track, synthesize, and ensure quality control of reports and data analyses related to downtown metrics using Placer.Ai and Costar, including pedestrian activity, transit, hospitality, development, and office tenancy, while collaborating with stakeholders and government agencies to research, aggregate, and communicate key demographic, employment, real estate, and cultural statistics.
• Maintain and improve the organizational CRM (Salesforce) database.
• Create data visualizations, dashboards, and maps using ArcGIS, Infogram and others.
• Build geospatial datasets by integrating ESRI and third-party data with internal records.
• Collaborate with the marketing department to produce Annual and Mid-Year Reports and write economic content for DSFP’s website, blogs, newsletters, and social media.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with downtown stakeholders (City of San Francisco staff, civic organizations, property owners and managers, developers, commercial brokers, large employers, and ground floor businesses) to support investment and activation efforts.
• Serve as a convener and lead stakeholder committees to advance revitalization initiatives.
• Collect and synthesize stakeholder feedback to inform program design, economic strategy, and policy recommendations.
• Regularly share economic data, market insights to help stakeholders make informed decisions, identify opportunities for support, and promote ground floor attraction.

Requirements/Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in economics, public administration, statistics, geographic information sciences, urban planning, community-based development, finance, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in research and data analysis, statistics, analytical reporting, economic development, commercial real estate, or related. Applied graduate coursework will not be considered towards relevant experience.
• An understanding of the roles business improvement districts/community benefit districts and the role they play in driving public and private sector investment and economic impacts.
• Experience using Microsoft Office & Google Workspace are required.
• Technical proficiency using Salesforce, Tableau, ArcView, Placer.ai, CoStar, Infogram, Canva, and other economic development and mapping and data visualization platforms.
• Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.

Position Specifications, Compensation & Benefits

Starting Salary: $90,000 - $95,000 (exempt, salaried position) plus benefits

Position Salary Range: $90,000 - $115,000

DSFP offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and skills, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer paid healthcare, dental and vision plan, 2-weeks PTO, 14 paid holidays, additional PTO week between Christmas and New Year’s, a monthly commuter benefit, 401k plan with a 3% employer match.

To Apply:

You must send a resume, brief cover letter, and work samples to Robbie Silver, President & CEO at careers@downtownsf.org with “Econ” in the subject line. Resumes without a cover letter and work samples will not be considered.

Application Deadline: June 13, 2025 .

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