Director, Spatial Data Management

Job Title

Director, Spatial Data Management

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Lead the spatial data capability

• Define and evolve spatial data standards, governance frameworks, and best practices.

• Create repeatable processes for data quality, stewardship, audit readiness, and consistency.

• Drive alignment across clients, tools, regions, and service delivery models.

Apply spatial data through a business lens

• Translate spatial data discipline into practical business value for clients and the practice.

• Improve reporting integrity, implementation quality, scalability, and decision support.

• Use spatial and occupancy data to support predictive, data-driven decisions based on current occupancy models.

• Optimize, implement, and manage advanced spatial systems that measure utilization and align workplace environments to business needs, helping increase operational effectiveness and productivity.

• Help assess where modernization—including emerging AI opportunities—may improve workflows, reporting, or client value.

Partner with technology teams

• Work closely with technology teams to support workplace technology implementations, re-implementations, and ongoing enablement.

• Translate business needs into data, process, and platform requirements.

• Help ensure data standards and governance align to implementation realities.

Modernize methods and delivery

• Refresh and document playbooks, methodologies, process maps, and guidance related to space allocation, planning, audits, utilization, and live occupancy.

• Build practical frameworks that improve repeatability, quality, and consistency across the practice.

• Drive disciplined, constructive conversations about process, accountability, decision rights, and consistency to improve service delivery at scale.

Support clients and practice growth

• Serve as a trusted advisor on spatial data integrity and modern space management practices.

• Partner with clients to connect occupancy, utilization, and planning data to strategic workplace and portfolio decisions.

• Contribute to thought leadership, reusable content, and practice development efforts.

• Identify opportunities to strengthen service delivery and support client growth.

• 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.

• 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…