# Senior Director, Global Workplace Strategy, Planning and Design

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a strategic and collaborative leader to join RESS (Real Estate & Site Services) as Sr. Director, Global Workplace Strategy, Planning & Design. You will guide a multidisciplinary, distributed team to build NVIDIA's global workplace brand. You will own the complete workplace strategy, solutions, planning, and future-of-work initiatives,from small updates to iconic buildings. You will ensure space, technology, culture, operations, and sustainability align across all regions.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Serve as visible executive leader and workplace brand steward for NVIDIA, influencing cross-departmental collaborators and partnering with RESS regional leads to develop and lead workplace vision from strategy through delivery.

- Own and implement global workplace strategy and occupancy planning, defining ways-of-working models, typologies, standards and rollout plans that enable high-performing, compliant work environments.

- Build and maintain a business-partnering framework to engage key business units, capture demand signals and convert operational needs into practical planning inputs for portfolio decisions.

- Synthesize business intelligence and workforce planning to inform portfolio planning, long-term capacity decisions, and prioritization of projects.

- Establish and lead Workplace Analytics & Research to generate actionable insights on space utilization, employee behavior and workplace efficiency; define performance metrics and evaluation frameworks for continuous improvement.

- Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting (including Omniverse visualization integration) to provide leadership and team members with clear access to workplace performance, adoption trends and emerging demand patterns.

- Lead an internal design team delivering ~50 concurrent projects (refreshes, relocations, expansions, data center workplaces, small mods), ensuring consistency with global brand standards and local regulatory/cultural adaptations.

- Manage strategic partnerships with global architecture partners and coordinate interior programming and standards with RESS project teams and internal functions (Finance, IT, Security, Legal); prototype, pilot and scale future-of-work innovations, furniture systems, materials and technologies.

**Requirements:**

- 20+ overall years of experience in architecture, workplace build, workplace experience or related fields with demonstrated leadership of large, complex global workplace programs; 10+ years leading teams.

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

- Executive presence and proven ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional collaborators.

- Demonstrated experience with workplace data-driven strategy, workplace technologies (room booking, sensors, VR/Omniverse), and change management.

- Strong analytical, communication, presentation, negotiation, and customer-relationship skills.

- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic, global environment across multiple time zones.

**Nice to Have:**

- Proven track record delivering portfolio-level workplace transformation across geographies.

- Deep knowledge of hybrid work models, workplace innovations, and technology-enabled solutions.

- Experience embedding sustainability, wellbeing, and inclusive build into global programs.

- History of encouraging cross-organizational change and scaling new ways of working worldwide.

## Skills

### Required
- Architecture
- Workplace Build
- Workplace Experience
- Leadership
- Data-Driven Strategy
- Workplace Technologies
- Change Management
- Analytical Skills
- Communication Skills
- Presentation Skills
- Negotiation Skills
- Customer Relationship Skills

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