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Global Workplace Lead

Runway· Operations & Partnerships
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$150k - $200kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead Runway's global office strategy and execution, including real estate, buildouts, budgeting, events, and cross-functional coordination to create productive, welcoming workplaces across multiple cities.

Responsibilities

  • Handle the daily operation of each office: cleaning, repairs, food, supplies, access control, and health and safety
  • Own the workplace budget and the reporting behind it, from rent and capex through daily operating spend
  • Run Runway's onsite programming, including all-hands, offsites, team events, screenings and visits from partners and press
  • Decide how much space Runway needs in each city and by when, working from hiring forecasts with People and Finance
  • Take new offices from shortlist to signed lease, working with brokers, Legal and Finance on terms
  • Manage design, construction and furniture projects to move-in dates that hold
  • Work with IT and Security on network, AV and physical access ahead of each opening
  • Set up local vendors, services and compliance in markets where Runway hasn't operated before
  • Travel occasionally to Runway's other offices, usually around an opening or a large onsite event
  • Decide what good looks like for a Runway office, then keep checking each one against it, from the perspective of both the people working there and the people visiting

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in corporate real estate, facilities or workplace operations
  • Deep project management experience across construction schedules, permitting and short-notice logistics
  • Hands-on lease and vendor contract experience, and a budget you personally signed off on
  • Cross-functional experience with teams such as Finance, People, IT and Security
  • At least one office you took from first site visit through opening day
  • International real estate, employment or compliance experience is a plus
  • Comfort writing the process docs, service standards and vendor scorecards a workplace function depends on
  • Accountability for offices you don't sit in every day

Skills

Required:Office operations managementBudgeting and cost managementProject management (construction/logistics)Vendor and contract managementCross-functional collaborationReal estate negotiating and lease process
Nice to have:Documentation and standards writing
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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