Workplace Design Manager

Turner & Townsend; California; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend seeks a Workplace Design Manager to lead planning, design, and delivery of workplace environments aligned with client goals and employee experience strategies. This hybrid role (3-4 days/week) is based in Menlo Park, CA and will drive transformation projects from concept through implementation.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in workplace design, strong design leadership, and proficiency in tools like Bluebeam, AutoCAD, Revit, and Adobe Creative Suite.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Design or related field.
• Professional registration or licensure preferred.
• 8+ years in workplace design, corporate interiors, workplace strategy, architecture, or related disciplines.
• Experience managing workplace transformation, office fit-out, relocation, or corporate real estate projects.
• Strong understanding of hybrid work environments and employee experience strategies.
• Proficiency in workplace planning tools and design software such as Bluebeam, AutoCAD, Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead workplace design projects across multiple sectors, ensuring alignment with client goals, workplace strategies, and business requirements.
• Manage the development of workplace concepts, space planning solutions, test fits, and design standards.
• Partner with clients and stakeholder groups to identify workplace needs, occupancy requirements, and future-state workplace strategies.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and stakeholder engagement sessions to gather project requirements and support decision-making.
• Collaborate with architects, interior designers, engineers, project managers, and external consultants throughout project lifecycles.
• Translate workplace strategy, organizational culture, and operational requirements into practical design solutions.
• Review and oversee design deliverables throughout concept, schematic, design development, and construction documentation phases.
• Ensure workplace designs support employee experience, wellbeing, collaboration, sustainability, accessibility, and inclusion objectives.
• Coordinate design activities with project schedules, budgets, and construction milestones.
• Monitor project risks, design changes, and scope impacts, providing recommendations and mitigation plans.
• Support value engineering exercises and identify opportunities to optimize cost, functionality, and user experience.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations, building codes, client standards, and industry best practices.
• Manage design consultants and vendors, reviewing performance and ensuring quality outcomes.
• Contribute to business development activities, client presentations, and workplace strategy proposals.
• Develop and maintain workplace design guidelines, standards, and best practices.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and technical guidance to junior team members.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Workplace Design, or related field

Professional registration, certification, or licensure preferred

Tools

Bluebeam

AutoCAD

Revit

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

About the role

Turner & Townsend is looking for a Workplace Design Managerresponsible for leading the planning, design, and delivery of workplace environments that align with client business objectives, employee experience strategies, and operational requirements.

The successful candidate will combine workplace strategy, design leadership, and project delivery expertise to drive workplace transformation projects from concept development through implementation.

This is a hybrid role, 3-4 days per week, based in Menlo Park, CA.

What you'll do

• Lead workplace design projects across multiple sectors, ensuring alignment with client goals, workplace strategies, and business requirements.
• Manage the development of workplace concepts, space planning solutions, test fits, and design standards.
• Partner with clients and stakeholder groups to identify workplace needs, occupancy requirements, and future-state workplace strategies.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and stakeholder engagement sessions to gather project requirements and support decision-making.
• Collaborate with architects, interior designers, engineers, project managers, and external consultants throughout project lifecycles.
• Translate workplace strategy, organizational culture, and operational requirements into practical design solutions.
• Review and oversee design deliverables throughout concept, schematic, design development, and construction documentation phases.
• Ensure workplace designs support employee experience, wellbeing, collaboration, sustainability, accessibility, and inclusion objectives.
• Coordinate design activities with project schedules, budgets, and construction milestones.
• Monitor project risks, design changes, and scope impacts, providing recommendations and mitigation plans.
• Support value engineering exercises and identify opportunities to optimize cost, functionality, and user experience.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations, building codes, client standards, and industry best practices.
• Manage design consultants and vendors, reviewing performance and ensuring quality outcomes.
• Contribute to business development activities, client presentations, and workplace strategy proposals.
• Develop and maintain workplace design guidelines, standards, and best practices.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and technical guidance to junior team members.

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Workplace Design,or a related field.
• Professional registration, certification, or licensure preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in workplace design, corporate interiors, workplace strategy, architecture, or related disciplines.
• Experience managing workplace transformation, office fit-out, relocation, or corporate real estate projects.
• Strong understanding of workplace planning principles, hybrid work environments, and employee experience strategies.
• Knowledge of design development processes, construction documentation, and project delivery methodologies.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary project teams and managing stakeholder relationships.
• Proficiency in workplace planning tools and design software such as Bluebeam, AutoCAD, Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar platforms.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation abilities.

*SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs*

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this, we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/ and https://www.heery.com/

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