Senior Director Workplace Strategy and Real Estate

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

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. 

Responsibilities 

Strategy 

• 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. 

Real Estate Transactions 

• 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. 

Relationship Management 

• 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. 

Budgeting and Finance 

• 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. 

Continuous Improvement and Innovation 

• 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. 

Basic Qualifications 

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications 

• 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. 

Suggested Skills 

• Agility 
• Analytical Skills 
• Business Acumen 
• Commercial Real Estate Analysis 
• Contract Management 
• Data Analysis 
• Financial Analysis 
• Negotiation 
• Operational Excellence 
• Strategic Thinking 
• Strategy 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.    

The pay range for this role is $198,000 to $320,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.    

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits. 

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