Job Specifications
Company Description
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
This role is based in our Mountain View or Sunnyvale location.
The Director of Real Estate leads the strategic oversight and management of LinkedIn’s global real estate portfolio, driving long-term planning, operational excellence, and alignment with the company’s business strategy. This leader oversees the full real estate lifecycle including site selection, acquisition, transactions, lease administration, disposition, and portfolio optimization to ensure every investment supports LinkedIn’s mission and growth. Partnering closely with senior executives, Legal, Finance, and Workplace leaders, the Director delivers best-in-class environments that enable productivity, innovation, and connection. Leveraging data-driven insights and market intelligence, this role informs strategic decisions, champions continuous improvement, and ensures all real estate initiatives align with the broader Workplace and company vision. The Director leads a high-performing, senior-level team committed to operational rigor and strategic impact.
Responsibilities
Real Estate Management
Oversees highly complex portfolios of regional and/or global real estate activities by guiding teams in evaluations, selection, development, and management of real estate transactions.
Provides expert strategic guidance for the team's portfolio of regional and/or global real estate activities. Drives the execution of regional strategic long-term plans and delegates resources needed to accomplish the plan.
Provides expert strategic guidance to ensure the execution of strategic goals in partnership with global and regional leadership.
Partners with senior stakeholders across the organization to update and operationalize the global strategy and communicate plans to the team and stakeholders.
Real Estate Transactions
Oversees all stages of transactions (e.g., letters of intent, contract negotiations).
Drives the development, negotiation, documentation, and approval of complex acquisition agreements, business cases, and deal summaries.
Collaborates with legal teams and ensures contracts are created with LinkedIn's' best interest. Serves as a role model for team members by ensuring on-time delivery and contract completion.
Relationship Management
Partners with internal and external stakeholders to build an aligned strategy.
Drives development of long- term strategic plans based on reporting information (e.g., market reports) at a regional level, identifies trends, and provides strategic recommendations.
Utilizes business intelligence and data to positively influence a wide range of senior stakeholders.
Serves as a point of escalation to resolve highly complex issues.
Budgeting and Finance
Drives the execution of the regional and/or global budget.
Presents business cases for budget approval. Socializes the budget and impact with key senior stakeholders.
Drives timely updates to budgets by forecasting costs and updating spending targets in partnership with the Finance team and senior leadership.
Drives budget planning, forecasting, and tracking for facilities in collaboration with finance stakeholders.
Continuous Improvement and Innovation
Drives the development and implementation of innovative solutions, process updates, and optimizations to drive operational efficiency.
Ensures leases are enabled, verifies real estate is up to date, and maintains its competitive status with other real estate competitors.
Influences overall Real Estate Strategy and works to ensure Real Estate projects/initiatives are aligned with greater Workplace and LinkedIn strategy.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
10+ years in a leadership role with direct reports.
15+ years in corporate real estate or a directly related field OR Bachelor's Degree in business management, real estate, finance, project management, or related field AND 12+ years in corporate real estate or a directly related field.
Preferred Qualifications
7+ years in project and/or program management.
7+ years with financial modeling.
7+ years working in the technology industry.
7+ years working in a
About the Company
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..
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