Manager, Global Real Estate (R5592

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).

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Shield AI is seeking a Manager, Global Real Estate to lead portfolio strategy, site selection, transactions, lease administration, occupancy planning, and portfolio analytics across a rapidly growing global footprint. This role will create the disciplined portfolio-management capability required to align physical infrastructure with business growth, workforce demand, financial stewardship, and operational readiness.

This is a hands-on role for a commercially astute leader who can move from long-range portfolio strategy to transaction execution and detailed lease or occupancy analysis. The successful candidate will build a reliable global portfolio fact base, lead external advisors, translate ambiguous business demand into clear real estate recommendations, and guide decisions that create long-term financial and operational commitments.

• Own and maintain the global real estate portfolio strategy, including location, capacity, tenure, timing, and scenario recommendations.
• Partner with business leaders, Px, Finance, Manufacturing, Engineering, Security, EH&S, and Facilities Operations to understand growth plans, workforce demand, operating requirements, and risk.
• Translate business scenarios into multi-year portfolio plans, decision points, options, dependencies, and financial implications.
• Identify opportunities to expand, renew, consolidate, relocate, or exit space before constraints become business-critical.

• Lead site selection, market evaluation, option development, and real estate transaction strategy for new and existing locations.
• Direct brokers, market advisors, landlords, and other external partners through clear scopes, timelines, deliverables, and performance expectations.
• Structure and negotiate leases, renewals, expansions, contractions, assignments, subleases, and exits in partnership with Legal, Finance, Procurement, and executive approvers.
• Coordinate business cases, due diligence, approvals, negotiation positions, and transaction documentation while maintaining a clear audit trail of decisions and commitments.

• Establish and maintain a single authoritative inventory of sites, leases, owned assets, critical dates, obligations, rights, options, and landlord responsibilities.
• Implement disciplined lease administration, critical-date management, notice processes, obligation tracking, and escalation controls.
• Partner with Finance and Legal to validate occupancy costs, rent and operating-expense obligations, forecasts, accruals, and transaction assumptions.
• Drive timely resolution of landlord, lease, and occupancy issues while preserving clear ownership between Real Estate and Facilities Operations.

• Establish common occupancy-planning methods, demand inputs, capacity assumptions, space standards, and scenario models.
• Maintain a current view of capacity, utilization, vacancy, constraints, lease events, cost, and portfolio risk across the global footprint.
• Develop location and space scenarios that balance business speed, employee experience, operational requirements, flexibility, cost, and risk.
• Create concise portfolio dashboards and decision materials for monthly reviews, annual planning, and major site or transaction approvals.

• Serve as the principal real estate advisor to the Global Facilities Leader and a trusted business partner to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Capital Delivery to translate an approved transaction into a…