# Director, Global Workplace Design

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking a Global Workplace Design Director to serve as a senior leader within NVIDIA's Real Estate & Site Services (RESS) team, directing architectural, interior, furniture, and finish selections across all workplace and campus developments worldwide.

**Responsibilities:**

- Drive unified development standards across Architecture, Interior Design, Furniture, and Finishes globally, ensuring every project reflects a cohesive NVIDIA design language.

- Provide leadership in building solutions for Campus Projects, Tenant Improvement Projects, and Datacenter Office Projects worldwide.

- Serve as the lead creative voice across Architecture, Interior Design, Furniture, and Finishes for all campus, tenant improvement, and datacenter office projects,guiding and uniting collaborators around a clear development vision.

- Lead NVIDIA's workplace build experimentation strategy: identify emerging trends and end-user needs, build and drive pilot programs to test new concepts, and define evaluation criteria for success.

- Assist regional leaders on pre-lease feasibility studies and general build issues. Lead initial new site visits and site studies for potential locations globally.

- Provide strategic mentorship to regional occupancy planners, facility managers, and office managers on architectural planning decisions.

- Coordinate review of architectural drawings and design documentation for campus projects to ensure alignment with NVIDIA Workplace Guidelines.

- Serve as the main lead and creative contact for all external architecture, interior development, furniture, and finishes partners worldwide,shaping creative intent and reviewing concepts and specifications.

- Coordinate budget planning and expenditure on design globally; assess budget constraints and define priorities for value engineering on design and FF&E.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in interior design or architecture from an accredited institution; advanced degree preferred.

- 15+ overall years of professional experience in corporate workplace development.

- 5+ years in a senior leadership or director-level role.

- Proficiency in AutoCAD and/or Revit and Bluebeam.

- Comprehensive understanding of building codes, accessibility requirements, and workplace safety standards across multiple global regions.

- Proven ability to lead multiple large-scale, concurrent projects across geographies with competing priorities and deadlines.

- Willingness and ability to travel to NVIDIA office sites in the regions.

**Nice to Have:**

- Experience leading in-house global workplace build functions at a high-tech company or within a corporate real estate organization in the technology sector.

- Well-rounded knowledge of foreign geography, cultures, practices, and markets.

- Experienced with the build of technical labs and specialized research environments.

- Deep expertise in hybrid work models, campus development strategy, and next-generation workplace innovations.

NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- AutoCAD
- Revit
- Bluebeam
- Interior Design
- Architecture
- Leadership
- Project Management

### Nice to have
- Hybrid work models
- Campus development strategy
- Next-generation workplace innovations
- Technical lab build
- Specialized research environments

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