Director, Spatial Data Management

About the role

The Director, Spatial Data Management will lead the spatial data capability, define and evolve spatial data standards, governance frameworks, and best practices. They will also drive alignment across clients, tools, regions, and service delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Lead the spatial data capability
• Create and evolve spatial data standards, governance frameworks, and best practices
• Define and implement repeatable processes for data quality, stewardship, audit readiness, and consistency
• Translate spatial data discipline into practical business value for clients and the practice
• Optimize, implement, and manage advanced spatial systems that measure utilization and align workplace environments to business needs
• Partner with technology teams to support workplace technology implementations, re-implementations, and ongoing enablement
• Support clients and practice growth by serving as a trusted advisor on spatial data integrity and modern space management practices
• Contribute to thought leadership, reusable content, and practice development efforts

Requirements

• Significant experience in Spatial Data Management, workplace data, occupancy data, or related space management disciplines
• Strong experience in data governance, data consistency, stewardship, standards development, and quality control
• Experience applying data discipline through a business lens, including the ability to connect technical or operational work to business and client outcomes
• Experience partnering with technology teams to support system implementation, platform enablement, or business-to-technology translation
• Experience supporting workplace, occupancy, reservation, IWMS, or related workplace technology platforms
• Strong client-facing communication, collaboration, and leadership skills
• Experience creating playbooks, methodologies, standards, process documentation, or best-practice content
• A genuine appreciation for documentation and the discipline required to create clear, scalable, and reusable standards, workflows, and guidance
• Comfort leading direct, thoughtful, and sometimes hard conversations about process, governance, accountability, and ways of working
• Experience using occupancy, utilization, or spatial data to support forecasting, planning, and real estate decision-making
• Ability to influence across functions and help mature a growing capability area
• Experience supporting growth initiatives, proposal coordination, or operational enablement
• Experience supporting global or multi-region clients, teams, or service delivery models

Qualifications

• Experience with one or more major occupancy, reservation, IWMS, or space management platforms
• Experience supporting re-implementation or workplace modernization efforts
• Experience developing thought leadership content, case studies, or practice materials
• Familiarity with evolving technology trends impacting workplace platforms and data requirements, including an interest in how AI may influence workflows and service delivery
• Experience supporting growth initiatives, proposal coordination, or operational enablement
• Experience supporting global or multi-region clients, teams, or service delivery models

Skills

• Strategic leadership
• Client-facing communication and collaboration
• Leadership in creating structure where work is fragmented
• Improving consistency at scale
• Translating business needs into practical solutions
• Using documentation and disciplined process conversations to drive lasting change

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Competitive pay

Pay

$114,750.00 - $135,000.00

Schedule

Full-time