Head of Workplace

Responsibilities

Operations & Systems

• Build the infrastructure—including vendor relationships, budgets, tooling, and processes—that enables Workplace to scale.
• Manage the workplace budget and report on spend, utilization, and ROI.
• Hire and develop a team as the company scales.

Expansion & Space Planning

• Lead site selection, lease negotiations with legal and finance support, and buildouts for new offices.
• Own headcount-driven capacity planning, forecasting space needs against hiring plans and adjusting in real time.
• Partner with local counsel, contractors, and vendors to establish compliant, functional offices in new markets.
• Build repeatable playbooks so each new market opens faster and more predictably.

Employee & Visitor Experience

• Own the day-to-day experience of company offices.
• Design and run onsite programs, including daily operations, offsites, board meetings, and executive visits.
• Set standards for visitor, candidate, and guest experiences.
• Build employee feedback loops to continuously improve workplace experience across locations.
• Build and lead a team of Office Coordinators across newly formed offices.

Events

• Plan and execute company-wide events, including team offsites, all-hands meetings, and external-facing gatherings.
• Manage event budgets, vendors, and logistics end to end.
• Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams on programming that reinforces culture and connection.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Workplace, Facilities, or a closely related operations role.
• Experience opening or scaling offices across multiple markets or countries.
• Track record of building systems and playbooks, not just running programs.
• Strong project management and vendor negotiation skills.
• Experience owning budgets and accountability for outcomes.
• Hospitality mindset and strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and balancing scalable planning with hands-on execution.
• Excellent judgment about when to build for scale versus keeping operations scrappy.

Nice to Have

• International experience, including real estate considerations across markets.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $185,000–$240,000.
• Meaningful early-stage equity grant, commensurate with scope and level.
• Generous benefits package.
• Final offer depends on the candidate’s experience and the scope of the role at the time of hire.