Real Estate Manager, Corporate Real Estate

About the team

The Corporate Real Estate and Workplace Operations (CREW) team enables a dynamic workplace experience through designing, developing, and operating day-to-day services that contribute to the culture and success of ZG. CREW partners with our businesses, functional teams and individuals to lead innovative services, improve safety and security, and provide agile real estate planning to determine strategic and future needs. Through our actions and practices, we strive to bring joy to our Zillow Group employees across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and EMEA. We facilitate spaces where people do their best work, and we work to make it easier for people to be their best. We are changing the game on how people go to work and are at the forefront of defining the Workplace of the Future!

Zillow, the top real estate website in the U.S., is building an on-demand real estate experience. Whether selling, buying, renting, or financing, customers can turn to Zillow to find and get into their next home with speed, certainty, and ease.

About the role

We are looking for a forward thinking corporate real estate manager with a background in commercial real estate, facilities, and execution to join our growing organization. This individual will help lead our real estate portfolio for our distributed workforce and in the office model for Zillow Cloud HQ. We are re-imagining how and why people come to work.

You will report to the Director of Real Estate, Workplace Operations, and Business Continuity, partnering closely with our Workplace Experience & Gatherings (WE&G), Core Tech, Financial Planning, and Analysis (FP&A), and Legal teams. This partnership makes for a highly collaborative and inclusive environment, while working with fun people! We are passionate about crafting a flexible model that allows our people to work from anywhere, anytime.

You Will Get To:

• Assist the Director in leading the day-to-day administration and big picture strategy of our corporate real estate portfolio, including all directly leased space.
• Own and run the international co-working portfolio, leading all strategic planning and working with compliance and ZG businesses to determine scope and need, coordinating with brokers and co-working companies, and working with internal teams to equip the spaces for use.
• Assist with compliance audits of our coworking spaces.
• Lead the real estate budgets and work with internal teams to complete monthly reporting, re-forecasting, projections, variance analysis, and monthly metric reviews.
• Lead all real estate leasing functions including LOIs, …