Director, Spatial Data Management
$114,750–$135,000 year
RemoteUnited States or Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Lead spatial data capability by defining standards, governance frameworks, and best practices for data quality, stewardship, and audit readiness. Drive alignment across clients, regions, and service models while translating spatial discipline into practical business value for reporting integrity and decision support. Optimize advanced spatial systems measuring utilization to align workplace environments with business needs, and assess modernization opportunities including emerging AI. Partner with technology teams to support implementations and ensure data standards align with reality. Refresh playbooks, methodologies, and process maps for space allocation, planning, and live occupancy to improve repeatability and consistency. Serve as a trusted advisor on spatial data integrity, connecting occupancy and utilization data to strategic workplace and portfolio decisions. Work across regions and cultures to mature this growing capability area.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- Ability to work effectively across regions, cultures, and time zones in support of a globally connected practice
Desired 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
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