diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index cbfbfb8d..105fdbec 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ java {
 sourceCompatibility = 1.8
 targetCompatibility = 1.8
 
+// The Management API client is Fern-generated (~4000 types). javac's type
+// inference over that tree exhausts the compiler's default heap. Because the
+// Java 8 toolchain differs from the JDK running Gradle, javac is forked into a
+// separate process, so org.gradle.jvmargs (the daemon heap) does not apply —
+// the heap must be set on the forked compiler here.
+tasks.withType(JavaCompile).configureEach {
+  options.fork = true
+  options.forkOptions.memoryMaximumSize = '2g'
+}
+
 jar {
   manifest {
     attributes 'Automatic-Module-Name': 'com.auth0.java'
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index cb426bef..724f91f7 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Specifies the JVM arguments used for the daemon process.
+# The setting is particularly useful for tweaking memory settings.
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1536m
+
 GROUP=com.auth0
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=auth0
 VERSION_NAME=3.0.0