Senior Director Workplace Strategy and Real Estate
About The Position
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. This role is based in our Mountain View or Sunnyvale location. The Sr. Director of Real Estate and Strategy leads the strategic oversight and management of LinkedIn’s global real estate portfolio, driving long-term strategy, planning, operational excellence, and alignment with the company’s business strategy. This leader oversees the full real estate lifecycle including site selection, acquisition, transactions, lease administration, disposition, and portfolio optimization to ensure every investment supports LinkedIn’s mission and growth. In addition, this Sr Director partners closely with senior executives, Legal, Finance, and Workplace leaders, to deliver best-in-class environments that enable productivity, innovation, and connection. This leader also provides strategic oversight for our Global Workplace Engineering and Sustainability Program, ensuring that our portfolio meets or exceeds our enterprise sustainability commitments. Leveraging data-driven insights and market intelligence, this role informs strategic decisions, champions continuous improvement, and ensures all real estate initiatives align with the broader Workplace and company vision. The Sr. Director leads a high-performing, senior-level team committed to operational rigor and strategic impact.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in corporate real estate or a directly related field OR Bachelor's Degree in business management, real estate, finance, project management, or related field AND 12+ years of experience in corporate real estate or a directly related field OR equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
Nice To Haves
- 7+ years with project and/or program management.
- 7+ years of experience with financial modeling.
- 7+ years of experience working in the technology industry.
- 7+ years of experience working in a large, multinational corporation.
Responsibilities
- In partnership with the VP of Workplace and Workplace LT sets our global Workplace strategy, aligning long-range planning, capital investment, and location decisions with business growth, workforce strategy, and financial objectives across each region.
- Partners with senior stakeholders across the organization to update and operationalize our global Workplace strategy and communicate plans to the team and stakeholders.
- Provides expert strategic guidance for the team's portfolio of regional and/or global real estate activities.
- Drives the execution of regional strategic long-term plans and delegates resources needed to accomplish the plan.
- Provides expert strategic guidance to ensure the execution of strategy in partnership with global and regional leadership.
- In collaboration with our Director of Eng and Sustainability, defines our Sustainability Strategy in alignment with our enterprise-level commitments.
- Drives development of long- term strategic plans based on reporting information (e.g., market reports) at a regional level, identifies trends, and provides strategic recommendations.
- Leads complex, high-value real estate transactions, including sale-leasebacks, portfolio restructurings, ground-up developments, acquisitions, dispositions, and M&A-related integrations
- Oversees highly complex portfolios of global real estate activities by guiding teams in evaluations, selection, development, and management of real estate transactions.
- Oversees all stages of transactions (e.g., letters of intent, contract negotiations).
- Drives the development, negotiation, documentation, and approval of complex acquisition agreements, business cases, and deal summaries.
- Collaborates with legal teams and ensures contracts are created with LinkedIn's' best interest.
- Serves as a role model for team members by ensuring on-time delivery and contract completion.
- Partners with internal and external stakeholders to build an aligned strategy.
- Utilizes business intelligence and data to positively influence a wide range of senior stakeholders.
- Serves as a point of escalation to resolve highly complex issues.
- Determines cash flow impacts, accounting implications, capital vs. operating expense trade-offs, balance sheet implications, and ROI analysis to inform executive decision-making and optimize capital allocation
- Drives the execution of the regional and/or global budget.
- Presents business cases for budget approval.
- Socializes the budget and impact with key senior stakeholders.
- Drives timely updates to budgets by forecasting costs and updating spending targets in partnership with the Finance team and senior leadership.
- Drives budget planning, forecasting, and tracking for facilities in collaboration with finance stakeholders.
- Drives the development and implementation of innovative solutions, process updates, and optimizations to drive operational efficiency.
- Ensures leases are enabled, verifies real estate is up to date, and maintains its competitive status with other real estate competitors.
- Develops Real Estate Strategy and works to ensure Real Estate projects/initiatives are aligned with greater Workplace and LinkedIn strategy.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
