OpenAI

Manager, Occupancy Planning Operations

OpenAI$120K — $150K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8+ years in workplace operations, move management, space planning, or corporate real estate in a fast-growing setting.
  • Experience leading complex office relocations and managing all related aspects such as budget and schedule.
  • Hands-on background as a program manager for CAFM/IWMS platforms, including data governance and integrations.
  • Strong program management and analytical abilities, with proficiency in Google Workspace and Tableau.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning and execution of office moves and relocations from start to finish.
  • Create detailed move plans including schedules, budgets, and dependencies for various stakeholders.
  • Translate business needs into actionable move waves, facilitating readiness reviews and issue resolution.
  • Define roles and responsibilities among cross-functional teams and manage communication to minimize disruptions.
  • Oversee vendor management, ensuring quality and safety standards are met during move execution.
  • Develop comprehensive playbooks and guidelines to streamline move processes and track performance metrics.
  • Manage the CAFM program including roadmap and vendor performance, ensuring data integrity throughout the move lifecycle.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three office days per week.
  • Relocation assistance available for new hires.
  • Emphasis on continuous improvement and user adoption of workplace systems.
  • Opportunity to engage in high-impact, cross-functional collaboration.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a member of the Real Estate & Workplace team, you will own the end-to-end execution of employee and team moves and the program management of our CAFM platform. You will translate approved occupancy strategies into safe, accurate, low-disruption moves-from intake, scenario validation, and sequencing through communications, vendor coordination, day-of execution, and post-move stabilization. In parallel, you will serve as the business program lead for CAFM, driving its roadmap, data governance, integrations, release management, and adoption so workplace teams operate from reliable space and occupancy data.

This is an individual contributor role based in San Francisco, CA, operating on a hybrid model with three office days per week. Relocation assistance is available to new hires. Success in this role is measured by predictable move delivery, employee readiness, cost and schedule control, accurate CAFM data, strong user adoption, and continuous improvement.

In this role you will:

Move Planning & Execution
  • Lead concurrent office moves, restacks, and phased relocations from approved scope through move-day execution, stabilization, and closeout.
  • Build integrated move plans covering schedules, budgets, dependencies, seating, IT/AV, security, furniture, facilities, accessibility, communications, and contingencies.
  • Translate business requirements and stacking plans into move waves; lead readiness reviews, issue resolution, and post-move retrospectives.

Cross-Functional & Vendor Leadership
  • Establish clear responsibilities, decision-making processes, and escalation paths across business leaders, People, IT, Security, Facilities, Communications, and Finance.
  • Manage move vendors and workplace service providers, including scope, schedules, deliverables, quality, safety, and costs.
  • Communicate plans, risks, and decisions to employees and executives while minimizing business disruption.

Move Operations & Performance
  • Develop scalable move playbooks, RACI models, readiness checklists, cutover plans, and service standards.
  • Maintain risk and issue logs, change control, budget tracking, and governance across the move portfolio.
  • Track KPIs-including readiness, move accuracy, downtime, employee experience, and cost-to improve future execution.

CAFM Program Management
  • Own the CAFM roadmap, governance, budget, vendor performance, and success measures.
  • Translate workplace workflows into system requirements and releases; oversee configuration, testing, launch readiness, and change control.
  • Establish standards for floorplans, occupancy, employee assignments, and move data, maintaining CAFM as the system of record throughout the move lifecycle.
  • Drive adoption through documentation, training, support, and integrations with HRIS, ITSM, access control, reservations, and analytics.

You'll might thrive in this role if you have:
  • 5-8+ years of experience in workplace operations, move management, space and occupancy planning, or corporate real estate in a dynamic, high-growth environment.
  • Demonstrated success leading concurrent, complex office moves and relocations end to end, including schedule, budget, vendor, communications, cutover, risk, and stabilization ownership.
  • Hands-on experience serving as a business owner, product or program manager, or administrator for CAFM/IWMS platforms such as OfficeSpace, including requirements, UAT, data governance, integrations, and adoption.
  • Strong program management, analytical, and executive communication skills; able to manage budgets, vendors, RAID and change control, and KPIs using Google Workspace, Tableau, and related reporting tools.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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