We are seeking a highly experienced, agile, and strategic Real Estate Projects Lead to oversee complex relocation, expansion, and renovation portfolios across the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California. This position holds comprehensive administrative, operational, financial, and management accountability for Meta's design and construction programs in the region. This role is the direct owner of Meta's capital projects portfolio in the region — responsible for driving outcomes from concept through close-out, aligning fast-moving internal product teams with cross-functional partners, and ensuring complex spatial environments are delivered on time, within budget, and to institutional quality standards Operating within a globally-set design standards and reporting framework, this role delivers regionally while maintaining alignment with Meta's Global project controls, and governance structures.
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 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