Manager, Facilities Operations
Gilead Sciences•Foster City, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
The Workplace Design Manager provides architectural, workplace planning, and design leadership across Gilead’s global workplace portfolio. Based in Foster City, the role supports tenant improvements, ground-up developments, workplace standards, and global workplace programs. As a licensed architect, the manager 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.
- 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 for architecture, interior design, furniture, signage, and finishes, ensuring projects reflect 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 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
- Discretionary annual bonus eligibility.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
