Workplace & Facilities Lead (West Coast)

The role

You will manage the West Coast workplace and the facilities team for the San Francisco office. You will own facilities operations end to end and build systems to scale the workplace as the company grows.

What you will do

• Manage, coach, and grow the existing facilities team
• Build staffing and coverage plans across weekdays, evenings, and weekends
• Hire for new roles as the team and office footprint grow
• Own building operations, maintenance, security coordination, and space readiness
• Manage key vendor relationships including contracts, SLAs, and performance
• Build and manage the facilities budget and track spend against plan
• Set up preventive maintenance, issue tracking, and escalation paths
• Plan for headcount growth including space planning, moves, and build-outs
• Partner with Employee Experience, Recruiting, Security, and Finance
• Support large events and offsites from a facilities and logistics standpoint

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in workplace, facilities, or real estate operations
• 3+ years managing teams
• Experience running facilities at a fast-growing tech company or in a high-end hospitality environment
• Strong vendor management and contract negotiation skills
• Comfortable owning a budget and making tradeoffs
• Calm, decisive leader who can handle incidents and competing priorities
• Flexible schedule, including some Friday nights and weekends

Nice to have

• Experience opening new offices or managing build-outs

About the company

Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. They are the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.