Manager, Facilities Operations

Gilead Sciences • Foster City, CA

4d • $136,340 - $176,440 • Onsite

About The Position

The role, described in the posting as Workplace Design Manager, reports to the Senior Director, Workplace and provides architectural, workplace planning, and design leadership across Gilead’s global workplace portfolio. Based in Foster City, it supports tenant improvements, ground-up developments, workplace standards, and global workplace programs. As a licensed architect, the role contributes to developing and implementing global workplace and engineering standards while supporting design quality and consistency across workplace environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in architecture or a related design discipline and current architectural licensure.
• 8–10 years of professional experience in architecture, workplace design, planning, or project delivery.
• Experience supporting workplace, tenant improvement, corporate office, or campus development projects.
• Strong knowledge of architectural and interior design, construction documentation and administration, California building codes, accessibility requirements, permitting, and project delivery.
• Experience with FF&E specifications and applicable sustainability standards.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Proficiency with Revit, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Adobe Creative Suite, and relevant visualization tools.
• Strong communication, presentation, organizational, and project-management skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, laboratory, or research environments.
• Experience with workplace standards, design governance, signage, wayfinding, environmental graphics, or portfolio-wide planning.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled design, visualization, and workplace planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead programming, workplace planning, concept development, and design coordination for new construction, tenant improvement, renovation, restack, and occupancy projects across the Foster City campus and global workplace portfolio.
• Drive unified global workplace standards across architecture, interior design, furniture, signage, and finishes to ensure a cohesive design language.
• Lead the development and global rollout of signage, wayfinding, and environmental graphics standards.
• Coordinate reviews of architectural drawings and design documentation to ensure workplace projects align with Gilead’s Global Workplace Guidelines.
• Coordinate with Workplace, Engineering, Facilities, EH&S, Security, IT, business stakeholders, architects, consultants, contractors, and vendors.
• Conduct site visits and construction administration activities to support design quality, project execution, and issue resolution.
• Prepare design studies, assessments, presentations, and project documentation.

Benefits

• May be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus.
• May be eligible for discretionary stock-based long-term incentives; eligibility may vary by role.
• Paid time off.
• Company-sponsored medical insurance.
• Company-sponsored dental insurance.
• Company-sponsored vision insurance.
• Company-sponsored life insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager