Facilities Projects Lead, North America

{"\u0040context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","\u0040type":"JobPosting","title":"Facilities Projects Lead, North America","description":"We are seeking a highly experienced, agile, and strategic Real Estate Projects Lead to oversee complex relocation, expansion, and renovation portfolios across the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California. This position holds comprehensive administrative, operational, financial, and management accountability for Meta's design and construction programs in the region. This role is the direct owner of Meta's capital projects portfolio in the region \u2014 responsible for driving outcomes from concept through close-out, aligning fast-moving internal product teams with cross-functional partners, and ensuring complex spatial environments are delivered on time, within budget, and to institutional quality standards Operating within a globally-set design standards and reporting framework, this role delivers regionally while maintaining alignment with Meta's Global project controls, and governance structures.","responsibilities":"Own the end-to-end lifecycle of tenant improvements, spanning two distinct asset classes: creative corporate workplace and technical environments (hardware testing, R&D labs) Plan, organize, and coordinate the full range of construction project duties, including detailed schedules, milestones, critical path dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies. Direct external Third-Party Project Management firms, general contractors, and design consultants, establishing rigorous KPIs and holding vendors accountable to milestones. Drive the design, permitting, and construction processes through to successful close-out. Manage a regional portfolio of concurrent projects at various stages - triaging priorities, reallocating resources, and reporting portfolio health at a program level, not just individual project delivery. Maintain and deliver standardised Project Status Reports (PSRs), ensuring data consistency for portfolio-level extraction and dashboard reporting. Own the full financial lifecycle of a regional portfolio, including budget development, multi-tier contingency management (design, construction, owner), monitoring, and providing analysis of impact to financial objectives. Own the full monthly and quarterly financial reporting cycle for the regional portfolio, including: actuals vs. forecast variance reporting, quarterly business review (QBR), accruals management, and participation in forecast cycles with finance partners. Deliver predictive cash flow analytics for projects ranging from $500K to $100M+. Enforce strict change-order control protocols, auditing field variations to defend the budget against unnecessary scope creep or design drift. Support Asset Retirement Obligation (ARO) assessments for lease-end reinstatement obligations, coordinating MEP surveys, consolidating cost estimates, and ensuring reinstatement provisions are accurately captured for finance reporting. Review, communicate, and enforce contractual documents for design and construction professionals Partner with Meta's Sourcing team throughout the procurement process Oversee and authorize the procurement of design, construction, and consultant services; negotiate entitlement issues with city jurisdictions. Partner with Legal and Real Estate Transaction teams to review, author, and influence Workletters, Letters of Intent (LOIs), Leases and master service agreements. Manage the regional 3rd Party vendor responsible for Program Management Office as an integrated delivery model - leading working groups, driving process alignment between Meta and partner teams, conducting structured performance feedback (WWW\/WWLW reviews), and maintaining regular partnership cadence meetings beyond project-level check-ins. Champion and adopt AI tools for project controls, reporting automation, scenario modelling, and workflow optimisation in alignment with Meta's AI-native operating model. Drive AI adoption across the