Facilities Projects Lead, North America

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of tenant improvements, spanning two distinct asset classes: creative corporate workplace and technical environments (hardware testing, R&D labs)
• Plan, organize, and coordinate the full range of construction project duties, including detailed schedules, milestones, critical path dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Direct external Third-Party Project Management firms, general contractors, and design consultants, establishing rigorous KPIs and holding vendors accountable to milestones.
• Drive the design, permitting, and construction processes through to successful close-out.
• Manage a regional portfolio of concurrent projects at various stages - triaging priorities, reallocating resources, and reporting portfolio health at a program level, not just individual project delivery.
• Maintain and deliver standardised Project Status Reports (PSRs), ensuring data consistency for portfolio-level extraction and dashboard reporting.
• Own the full financial lifecycle of a regional portfolio, including budget development, multi-tier contingency management (design, construction, owner), monitoring, and providing analysis of impact to financial objectives.
• Own the full monthly and quarterly financial reporting cycle for the regional portfolio, including: actuals vs. forecast variance reporting, quarterly business review (QBR), accruals management, and participation in forecast cycles with finance partners.
• Deliver predictive cash flow analytics for projects ranging from $500K to $100M+.
• Enforce strict change-order control protocols, auditing field variations to defend the budget against unnecessary scope creep or design drift.
• Support Asset Retirement Obligation (ARO) assessments for lease-end reinstatement obligations, coordinating MEP surveys, consolidating cost estimates, and ensuring reinstatement provisions are accurately captured for finance reporting.
• Review, communicate, and enforce contractual documents for design and construction professionals
• Partner with Meta's Sourcing team throughout the procurement process
• Oversee and authorize the procurement of design, construction, and consultant services; negotiate entitlement issues with city jurisdictions.
• Partner with Legal and Real Estate Transaction teams to review, author, and influence Workletters, Letters of Intent (LOIs), Leases and master service agreements.
• Manage the regional 3rd Party vendor responsible for Program Management Office as an integrated delivery model - leading working groups, driving process alignment between Meta and partner teams, conducting structured performance feedback (WWW/WWLW reviews), and maintaining regular partnership cadence meetings beyond project-level check-ins.
• Champion and adopt AI tools for project controls, reporting automation, scenario modelling, and workflow optimisation in alignment with Meta's AI-native operating model. Drive AI adoption across the regional project team and external partners.
• Drive seamless execution with cross-functional stakeholders, aligning real estate assets with Enterprise Engineering (IT), Global Security, Facilities Operations, and Corporate Finance.
• Lead due diligence and technical feasibility evaluations for prospective building acquisitions or leases, identifying potential structural, electrical or municipal bottlenecks before deal closure
• Develop and implement internal process improvements and oversee onboarding/training for project team members
• Build consensus across divergent teams and present clear bsuiness arguments to executive leadership

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of directly related corporate real estate project management
• Demonstrated track record managing projects across Workplace (corporate offices) and technical projects
• Proven experience as the primary financial owner for capital budgets ranging from $500K to $100M+
• Deep knowledge of project controls, construction documentation/sequencing, value engineering, and advanced mechanical/electrical/plumbing (MEP) coordination
• Solid understanding of building/occupancy laws and lease requirements
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, handle confidential information with discretion, build consensus across divergent teams, and influence strategic change at the executive level
• Experience managing integrated outsourced delivery partners (e.g., CBRE, JLL, Cushman & Wakefield and others) in a strategic partnership model - including joint governance, shared KPIs, and structured feedback mechanisms - not just transactional vendor oversight
• Willingness to travel to project sites throughout the West Coast, up to 30% at times
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Interior Design, Architecture, Engineering, or a quantitative Business field

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Real estate project management experience within a high-growth technology company
• Experience in design and construction of technical spaces (R&D labs)
• Advanced degree (Master of Architecture, MS in Real Estate Development, or MBA)
• Proficiency in project management software and portfolio reporting tools
• Proficiency in AI tools for project management, reporting and workflow optimization

Compensation

• $144,000/year - $203,000/year; Country: US; Bonus eligible; Equity eligible

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