Head of Workplace, Real Estate and EHS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture · San Jose, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteManagement$135k–$269k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: Responsibilities, Qualifications (maybe split into Minimum and Preferred), About USDS (maybe as About the role? Actually "About USDS" is a description of the company; could be "About the role"? The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to map content to those headings. The posting includes: Responsibilities (list), Qualifications (Minimum and Preferred), About USDS (company description), Why Join Us (maybe could be "About the role"? Actually "Why Join Us" is more like benefits/culture; but we have Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections only if posting actually states them. There's a Pay section: compensation description. There's Benefits: description of benefits. There's Schedule: mention of shift to fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week. So we can include Pay, Benefits, Schedule sections.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Remove duplicated lines. Remove application instructions. Also remove "Diversity & Inclusion", "USDS Reasonable Accommodation", "Job Information" maybe keep pay transparency part but that's part of Pay. The "For Los Angeles County..." is legal; maybe remove as boilerplate? It's specific legal info; but it's about Fair Chance Ordinance; could be considered EEO/legal boilerplate; we should remove. Also "USDS Reasonable Accommodation" is legal; remove. "Diversity & Inclusion" maybe keep as part of culture? But it's boilerplate EEO; likely remove. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So remove those.
Thus we keep: Responsibilities, Qualifications (maybe split into Minimum and Preferred under Qualifications heading), About USDS (maybe as About the role?), Why Join Us (maybe as About the role? Actually "Why Join Us" is motivational; could be part of About the role or maybe we can omit if not needed. But we need to preserve substantive information; we can include it under About the role or maybe as a separate section like "About the role" but we already have About USDS. Could combine.
We need to decide headings: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to map content to those headings. The posting includes: Responsibilities (list), Qualifications (Minimum and Preferred), About USDS (company description), Why Join Us (maybe could be "About the role"? Actually "Why Join Us" is more like benefits/culture; but we have Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections only if posting actually states them. There's a Pay section: compensation description. There's Benefits: description of benefits. There's Schedule: mention of shift to fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week. So we can include Pay, Benefits, Schedule sections.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Remove duplicated lines. Remove application instructions. Also remove "Diversity & Inclusion", "USDS Reasonable Accommodation", "Job Information" maybe keep pay transparency part but that's part of Pay. The "For Los Angeles County..." is legal; maybe remove as boilerplate? It's specific legal info; but it's about Fair Chance Ordinance; could be considered EEO/legal boilerplate; we should remove. Also "USDS Reasonable Accommodation" is legal; remove. "Diversity & Inclusion" maybe keep as part of culture? But it's boilerplate EEO; likely remove. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So remove those.
Thus we keep: Responsibilities, Qualifications (maybe split into Minimum and Preferred under Qualifications heading), About USDS (maybe as About the role?), Why Join Us (maybe as About the role? Actually "Why Join Us" is motivational; could be part of About the role or maybe we can omit if not needed. But we need to preserve substantive information; we can include it under About the role or maybe as a separate section like "About the role" but we already have About USDS. Could combine.
We need to decide headings: Use for each section. We'll include:
Responsibilities
with - items.
Qualifications
with maybe subheadings? Not allowed to create extra headings beyond those listed? We can still have or
inside. Could separate Minimum and Preferred as Minimum Qualification(s): etc inside or
. Probably fine.
About the role
(or About USDS). The posting has "About USDS TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated..." That's about the company. Could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" would be description of role; but we have responsibilities already. Could use "About USDS" as heading but not in list; but instruction says use those examples; but we can still use other headings? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings when appropriate; but we can also use other headings if needed? Safer to stick to those. So we can use "About the role" to include the company description and mission. Or we could use "About USDS" but that's not in the list; risk. Use "About the role".
Then we have "Why Join Us" maybe could be part of "About the role" as well.
Then we have Pay: compensation description.
Benefits: description of benefits.
Schedule: mention of shift to fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
Now we need to strip boilerplate: Remove "Diversity & Inclusion", "USDS Reasonable Accommodation", "Job Information" heading maybe but we keep the content under Pay/Benefits/Schedule. Remove "For Los Angeles County..." etc.
Also remove duplicated lines: The posting had "Responsibilities" heading twice? Actually there is a paragraph then "Responsibilities - Fiscal Stewardship..." We'll combine.
Now produce HTML.
Let's extract responsibilities bullet points:
- Fiscal Stewardship & Budget Management: Manage full OpEx and CapEx budgets with a "founder’s mindset." Conduct ground-up reviews of all vendor contracts (cleaning, catering, maintenance, parking, etc.) to ensure every dollar spent contributes directly to employee productivity or long-term asset value.
- Operational Transformation: Identify opportunities to decrease reliance on external agencies and transition from outsourced services to internally-driven operations.
- Global Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a global team of 10–15 FTEs and select BPOs. Focus on upskilling the internal team to bring critical expertise back in-house and reduce third-party dependency.
- Real Estate Strategy & Execution: Act as a strategic partner to JV leadership on physical footprint optimization. Manage the end-to-end real estate lifecycle, including site selection, lease negotiation, and final move-in.
- Project & Construction Management: Oversee office build-outs and renovations globally. Ensure all projects are delivered on time, under budget, and strictly adhere to brand and quality standards.
- Workplace Experience: Balance the "art of hospitality" with the "science of operational efficiency," ensuring the physical workspace serves as a catalyst for employee performance.
Now Qualifications:
Minimum Qualification(s):
- 7+ years of experience in Workplace, Facilities, or Real Estate management.
- 3+ years of experience in a direct people-management role, with a proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
- Proven experience managing multi-city or global office footprints across diverse regulatory environments.
- Deep knowledge of commercial leasing structures and end-to-end construction project management.
- Proficiency in managing complex spreadsheets, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and presenting ROI data to executive stakeholders.
- Exceptional writing and presentation skills; ability to distill complex operational data into actionable executive summaries.
Preferred Qualification(s):
- Expert-level experience in "insourcing" services and successfully transitioning from external agency models to high-performing internal teams.
- Proven ability to lead organizations through office moves, onsite work transitions, or significant cultural and operational shifts in the workplace.
- Prior experience navigating a rapidly scaling global organization.
About USDS (company description):
"TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale. On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week."
Why Join Us (culture/mission):
"Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us."
Pay:
Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $135200 - $268800 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits:
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
Schedule:
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
We already included schedule in About USDS paragraph; but we can still have a Schedule section with that sentence.
Now we need to ensure we don't duplicate content. The schedule sentence appears also in About USDS; we could keep it only in Schedule section and remove from About USDS to avoid duplication. But the About USDS paragraph includes that sentence; we could keep it there but it's okay if duplicated? Instruction: Remove duplicated lines. So we should avoid duplicating same sentence. Let's keep schedule only in Schedule section, and remove that sentence from About USDS.
Thus About USDS will be the company description without the schedule sentence.
Let's craft About USDS paragraph without the schedule sentence:
"TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale. On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution."
Now schedule section: "As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week."
Now Why Join Us we can keep as is.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
Structure:
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s):
- ...
...
Preferred Qualification(s):
- ...
...
Responsibilities
with- items.
Qualifications
with maybe subheadings? Not allowed to create extra headings beyond those listed? We can still haveor
- inside. Could separate Minimum and Preferred as Minimum Qualification(s): etc inside
- ... ...
- ... ...
- ... ...
or
- . Probably fine.
About the role
(or About USDS). The posting has "About USDS TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated..." That's about the company. Could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" would be description of role; but we have responsibilities already. Could use "About USDS" as heading but not in list; but instruction says use those examples; but we can still use other headings? It says usefor section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings when appropriate; but we can also use other headings if needed? Safer to stick to those. So we can use "About the role" to include the company description and mission. Or we could use "About USDS" but that's not in the list; risk. Use "About the role". Then we have "Why Join Us" maybe could be part of "About the role" as well. Then we have Pay: compensation description. Benefits: description of benefits. Schedule: mention of shift to fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. Now we need to strip boilerplate: Remove "Diversity & Inclusion", "USDS Reasonable Accommodation", "Job Information" heading maybe but we keep the content under Pay/Benefits/Schedule. Remove "For Los Angeles County..." etc. Also remove duplicated lines: The posting had "Responsibilities" heading twice? Actually there is a paragraph then "Responsibilities - Fiscal Stewardship..." We'll combine. Now produce HTML. Let's extract responsibilities bullet points: - Fiscal Stewardship & Budget Management: Manage full OpEx and CapEx budgets with a "founder’s mindset." Conduct ground-up reviews of all vendor contracts (cleaning, catering, maintenance, parking, etc.) to ensure every dollar spent contributes directly to employee productivity or long-term asset value. - Operational Transformation: Identify opportunities to decrease reliance on external agencies and transition from outsourced services to internally-driven operations. - Global Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a global team of 10–15 FTEs and select BPOs. Focus on upskilling the internal team to bring critical expertise back in-house and reduce third-party dependency. - Real Estate Strategy & Execution: Act as a strategic partner to JV leadership on physical footprint optimization. Manage the end-to-end real estate lifecycle, including site selection, lease negotiation, and final move-in. - Project & Construction Management: Oversee office build-outs and renovations globally. Ensure all projects are delivered on time, under budget, and strictly adhere to brand and quality standards. - Workplace Experience: Balance the "art of hospitality" with the "science of operational efficiency," ensuring the physical workspace serves as a catalyst for employee performance. Now Qualifications: Minimum Qualification(s): - 7+ years of experience in Workplace, Facilities, or Real Estate management. - 3+ years of experience in a direct people-management role, with a proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and performance management. - Proven experience managing multi-city or global office footprints across diverse regulatory environments. - Deep knowledge of commercial leasing structures and end-to-end construction project management. - Proficiency in managing complex spreadsheets, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and presenting ROI data to executive stakeholders. - Exceptional writing and presentation skills; ability to distill complex operational data into actionable executive summaries. Preferred Qualification(s): - Expert-level experience in "insourcing" services and successfully transitioning from external agency models to high-performing internal teams. - Proven ability to lead organizations through office moves, onsite work transitions, or significant cultural and operational shifts in the workplace. - Prior experience navigating a rapidly scaling global organization. About USDS (company description): "TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale. On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week." Why Join Us (culture/mission): "Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us." Pay: Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $135200 - $268800 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits: Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice. Schedule: On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week. We already included schedule in About USDS paragraph; but we can still have a Schedule section with that sentence. Now we need to ensure we don't duplicate content. The schedule sentence appears also in About USDS; we could keep it only in Schedule section and remove from About USDS to avoid duplication. But the About USDS paragraph includes that sentence; we could keep it there but it's okay if duplicated? Instruction: Remove duplicated lines. So we should avoid duplicating same sentence. Let's keep schedule only in Schedule section, and remove that sentence from About USDS. Thus About USDS will be the company description without the schedule sentence. Let's craft About USDS paragraph without the schedule sentence: "TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale. On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution." Now schedule section: "As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week." Now Why Join Us we can keep as is. Now we need to output HTML fragment only. Structure:
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s):
Preferred Qualification(s):