About This Role

Help support the businesses behind one of the world's most diversified media, information and services companies. As Director, Workplace Strategy & Design, you'll shape workplace strategy, interior design and space planning across Hearst's domestic locations, including Hearst Tower and Sheffield, helping Hearst create workplaces that reflect its brand and culture, support employees, and operate efficiently. In this role, you'll join Hearst Corporate's Corporate Real Estate & Facilities Planning team, helping our businesses succeed and advance our mission to inform and inspire.

What You'll Do

Workplace Strategy and Space Planning

Develop and implement short- and long-term workplace strategies for Hearst Tower, Sheffield, and other domestic locations.
Assess current and future workplace needs using business objectives, headcount projections, organizational changes, work styles, and operational requirements.
Lead programming, test fits, blocking and stacking, adjacency planning, occupancy planning, and workplace scenario development.
Recommend strategies to improve space utilization, flexibility, departmental adjacencies, employee experience, and operational efficiency.
Partner with business units and senior leadership to gather requirements and translate them into effective workplace solutions.
Establish and maintain workplace planning standards, guidelines, and reporting processes.
Provide regular recommendations regarding space allocation, capacity, utilization, and future planning needs.

Corporate Interior Design and FF&E

Lead the design direction for corporate interiors, ensuring consistency with Hearst’s brand, culture, workplace objectives, and design standards.
Develop and maintain standards for space planning, furniture, materials, finishes, color, lighting, signage, branding, and workplace typologies.
Review design concepts, test fits, finish palettes, furniture plans, specifications, and construction documents.
Provide design recommendations to executives, business leaders, user groups, architects, interior designers, dealers, and manufacturers.
Lead the selection, specification, procurement, and installation of furniture, fixtures, equipment, lighting, accessories, and related interior elements.
Review and approve FF&E specifications, pricing, orders, substitutions, and vendor recommendations.
Manage the master furniture inventory in New York and support inventory visibility and procurement nationwide.
Establish preferred products, vendors, and purchasing strategies that improve quality, consistency, flexibility, and cost efficiency.
Review and update Hearst Design and Construction guidelines as needed.
Balance design quality, functionality, durability, sustainability, employee experience, schedule, and cost.

Space Management and Workplace Changes

Oversee the workplace space management system, including WISP and office space assignments.
Maintain accurate occupancy information, floor plans, departmental allocations, space assignments, and chargeback data.
Coordinate office moves, adds, changes, reconfigurations, and other workplace modifications.
Improve processes for managing internal workplace changes and configurations.
Partner with Human Resources, Facilities, Technology, and business units to coordinate workplace changes and minimize disruption.
Manage relationships with movers, installers, furniture vendors, and other workplace service providers.
Review post-occupancy feedback and recommend improvements to workplace planning, design, furniture, and space management practices.

Project Management and Implementation

Manage or oversee interior workplace renovation, relocation, and reconfiguration projects nationwide from planning through completion.
Establish project scope, objectives, requirements, budgets, schedules, design criteria, and FF&E expectations.
Coordinate architects, interior designers, engineers, project managers, furniture dealers, contractors, movers, installers, and other consultants.
Monitor project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, procurement, and deliverables.