Workplace Innovation Pilots, Manager

Salesforce•Atlanta, GA

4d•$117,400 - $193,700•Hybrid

About The Position

The Workplace Innovation team is the research, insights, and testing arm of Salesforce’s Real Estate and Workplace Services organization. The team uses site studies, data, and pilots to evaluate office utilization and translate findings into design standards, policy adjustments, and portfolio decisions. Reporting to the Director of Workplace Innovation, the manager supports end-to-end execution of workplace pilots that test physical spaces, digital tools, and employee experiences to enable data-driven decisions. The role is based in San Francisco, Chicago, or Atlanta, with an office-flexible schedule of three days per week and up to 25% travel for discovery, kickoffs, and monitoring.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience in program or project management, workplace strategy, real estate, design research, or a related field.
At least 2 years of experience leading work through others.
Proven ability to deliver complex, cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including experience writing for and presenting to senior leaders.
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple pilots at different stages simultaneously.
Comfort with ambiguity and an experimental mindset, including willingness to learn from pilots that disprove an idea.

Nice To Haves

Background in workplace experience.
Project management certification (PMP or equivalent), or experience with Agile and stage-gate methods.
Experience with Slack, Google Workspace, Tableau, and AI agents.
Experience delivering programs across multiple regions or time zones.
Willingness to travel to pilot sites as needed.

Responsibilities

Develop project plans aligned with pilot objectives and partner with stakeholders to define success metrics and mixed-methods approaches for evaluating pilot impacts and outcomes.
Manage full pilot lifecycles, including kickoffs, workstreams, monitoring, and closeouts, while keeping projects on scope, schedule, and budget.
Coordinate cross-functional workstreams spanning design, project delivery, operations, data and technology, communications, and employee engagement.
Maintain project plans, run recurring syncs, identify dependencies, surface risks, and escalate decisions to program sponsors when needed.
Partner with workstream leads to synthesize quantitative and qualitative findings into insights and recommendations.
Maintain and improve templates, trackers, the pilot playbook, and methodology; capture lessons learned and make the approach reusable across REWS.
Apply AI tools to automate tracking, analysis, summaries, and reporting, and share effective practices with the team.
Travel to pilot sites for discovery, kickoffs, and monitoring as needed.