Vice President, Real Estate & Workplace Management
Are you someone who is eager to challenge the traditional norms common in the workplace and envision new employee experience? Do you dream about helping organizations grow and individuals realize their full potential at work and beyond?
If you describe yourself as someone passionate about people, scaling tech businesses and eager to break the mold on the traditional way of working, this is the job for you! VideoAmp is on a mission to create the best employee and workplace experience where people can bring their whole self to work everyday. We believe that accomplishing something great requires a special group of people who work hard, drive results and have a blast while doing it - people who challenge the status quo and embody our values. People who say “I’ll find a way” instead of saying “it can’t be done.”
The VideoAmp People Team is looking for a Vice President of Real Estate & Workplace Management who will be responsible for cultivating the space we gather together be it in-person, virtual or a hybrid of both. This person will advise and influence senior leaders on real estate and facilities best practices (policies, governance, strategic planning, operating models, processes, etc.) This role is responsible for defining and developing short, medium and long-range site org-wide planning, controlling and directing enterprise real estate and corporate facilities activities across all nationwide sites. They will develop and lead all design, construction and program management including strategic investment review, planning and execution of capital construction projects, new facilities and major renovations.
Our collective goal is to elevate our culture, engagement and productivity of employees throughout the entire employee experience lifecycle. As a Vice President, you are passionate about all things data and tech, and have extensive knowledge and personal curiosity around the digital media space. You are accomplished in the areas of discovering new ways to help people improve their holistic wellbeing and designing experience centers that further people’s productivity and happiness to drive business success. You are curious about all “next and best” workplace innovations that help people grow including the spaces we gather in together. This includes the oversight, design and management of a hybrid workplace and wellness centers in HQ locations based in Los Angeles and New York City. As a visionary and thought-leader, you are also hands-on in program management, facilities management, communication and workplace contractor oversight with all people and executive leaders alike. Most of all, you are ready to influence and support the strategic objectives of a highly cross-functional organization. This role oversees a growing team, reports to the Chief People Officer and is based at VideoAmp HQ in Santa Monica, CA.
Due to the implications of COVID-19, this role is virtually based and our organization is committed to prioritizing your health and safety through these unprecedented times.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Define a strategic vision for the company real estate and corporate facilities aligned to the company’s strategy, mission and values
- Build a long-term strategic real estate portfolio and planning process to further holistic wellness programs that prioritize physical, mental, financial and social development in a thriving environment conducive to people bringing all experiences to life at VideoAmp
- Develop and implement innovative real estate strategies to transform the portfolio and workplace experience using qualitative and quantitative analysis to drive alignment and decision making processes; determine the appropriate real estate model, team support and facilities service provision including lease vs buy, if applicable.
- Plan and oversee the build-out of workspace and wellness experience centers for employees and clients in HQ and hub location that supports the Wellness, Engagement & Experience programming for employees and clients alike
- Oversee real estate portfolio budget, planning, lease agreements and subleases in partnership with CFO and CPO
- Identify and oversee facilities contractors/vendors including nutrition food services, security, laundry, valet, cleaning, employee amenities and COVID protocols; Instill a minority-owned business vendors selection program in partnership with the Finance team
- Attract, develop and retain a team of top talent that embodies the VideoAmp values and is hyper creative to instill next-generation experiences
- Work with virtually every department at the company and support various teams to effectively align culture-building and experience hubs that help the company continue to grow and actively listen through focus groups, surveys and other mechanisms to design needle-moving investments
- Partner with talent acquisition, wellness & engagement, learning & org development, talent advisory and workplace leadership
- Benchmark and join future of work communities in order to learn from and shape people product industry trends
- Measure everything that matters in order to use data to inform strategy and holistic experiences
- Provide superior hospitality to leaders and employees to constantly raise the bar of employee programs and work environment
- Serve as a trusted member of the People team and ambassador of the organization
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 15+ years of experience in progressively more responsible real estate/corporate facilities leadership roles building real estate portfolios for scaling organizations across various locations
- 5+ years of capital program strategic investment, planning, program management and construction management experience for large, complex projects
- Partnership with legal and finance teams on lease agreements, term negotiation and procurement activities
- Collaborate with People team leadership, Finance leadership and business stakeholders to drive and define employee experience engagement and wellbeing plan, including key results and deliverables
- Proven experience with oversight of individual wellness coaching experience
- Measurable oversight of Empowerment & Inclusion (DEIB) to build a collaborative workplace that celebrates differences and attracts people of all backgrounds
- Experience making data-driven decisions and influencing through data insights and analytics
- College degree preferred with a focus in the areas of business, human resources or industrial/organizational design; Certifications in program management and real-estate brokerage, a bonus
PERKS:
- Unlimited paid time off each year
- Company sponsored health, dental and vision benefits for you and your dependents
- Annual vacation, childcare and pet-care stipends
- Access to state-of-the-art fitness classes and personal trainers to promote your well-being
- Progressive approach to paid parental leave
- Epic personal and professional growth opportunities
ABOUT:
The proliferation of streaming and digital media services has created the golden age of video entertainment with more premium TV content than ever before and we believe these experiences should be free or affordable to every human on the planet.
Making this accessible to everyone usually requires subsidies from the advertising industry to power an effective three-way value exchange between a publisher producing content, a consumer viewing it and an advertiser paying the publisher for the chance to connect with its audience.
While the ability to watch premium TV content on any device at any time is great for the consumer, the systems powering these services are fragmented, riddled with complexity and struggling to evolve in a changing privacy landscape. These systems are putting the entire ecosystem and three way value exchange at risk by providing an incomplete and siloed view of the audience that are responsible for advertising waste from inflated metrics, a decrease in publisher revenue opportunity from under-representing their audiences and consumers stuck with suboptimal viewing experiences.
Today the industry standard tools are usually designed where connectivity and applications of consumer data sets often come with negative trade off for consumer privacy or security risks of leaking private data. We envision a world where this doesn't have to be the case - a world where consumer privacy, security, and governance are incorporated into the fabric of the codebase that interfaces with these systems to enable the necessary business use-cases that keep these viewing experiences free or affordable to everyone.
The mission of VideoAmp is to be the independent software and data company creating a more sophisticated data-driven advertising ecosystem that redefines how media is valued, bought and sold. Our platform provides measurement and optimization tools that unifies audiences across the disparate systems of traditional TV, streaming video and digital media. We are unlocking new value for those that currently operate within a siloed view of their audiences, creating efficiencies for the entire industry. We are transforming a 100-year old industry by powering a more effective three-way value exchange that results in advertisers increasing their return on investment, publishers increasing their revenues and improving the viewing experience for consumers.
Come and join us!