Program Director, Workplace Experience Development (Hospitality
Listed on 2026-08-03
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Hospitality / Hotel / Catering
Hotel Management, Hospitality & Tourism
Location: New York
ABOUT CBRE AND EXPERIENCE BY INDUSTRIOUS
CBRE manages more buildings than any company in the world. Experience by Industrious (EBI) is the hospitality operating system that runs inside them, bringing together CBRE's scale across 7,000+ experience employees and 2,500+ buildings with a real hospitality model so that being in a building feels human. We want every person in those buildings, whether they are greeting a guest at the door or working behind the scenes, to keep the operation running, to feel that standard in how they are trained, supported, and led.
This role exists because someone has to take what EBI has built centrally and make it real on the ground, reading the client, reading the team, and knowing what needs to shift so the standard lands.
ABOUTTHE ROLE
This is not a training job with a hospitality title. It is a hospitality operations role for someone who has run great teams and now wants to develop them. If you have spent your career holding high standards for how people are treated, and you understand that a hospitality mindset belongs as much in the back office and the loading dock as it does at the front desk, this role was designed with you in mind.
Your most visible responsibility is the training and development program for this site. EBI provides the framework, your job is to take those centrally designed resources, shape them around the realities of this client and this building, and then lead the rollout so they actually stick. That means working closely with the site lead and the operational leads, understanding where the gaps are, and making sure the training reaches every part of the team, not just the people guests see first.
Beyond the program itself, you are responsible for the day-to-day standard of how this building feels. That means coaching the managers who run the teams, having honest performance conversations when the standard slips, and making sure every person on site, whatever their role, understands what good looks like and why it matters. This is a high-profile account and the client will notice.
Adapting a program for a specific building and client is not a clean process. Some things will land well; others will need to be reworked after the first session. You will be working across colleagues, vendors, and client contacts who have their own priorities and do not report to you. And you will be managing the training calendar while also being pulled into the day-to-day of a live operation.
That tension is part of the job.
The upside is real. This is a high-visibility account with genuine room to make your mark. The work you do here, the standards you set, the managers you develop, the culture you help build, will be noticed. If you want a role where your judgment matters and the client can feel the difference you make, this is it.
A TYPICAL DAY MIGHT LOOK LIKEYou spend the morning reviewing last week’s feedback with the site lead; not just the scores, but the specific moments behind them. A recurring complaint traced back to a back-of-house team that had never really been brought into the hospitality conversation; you spend time with the relevant manager figuring out what the training should look like and how to deliver it.
After lunch you are adapting the next workshop module, the central version is good, but it needs to reflect how this client works. The afternoon is a Quarterly Business Review where you present what the program is doing, what it is not doing yet, and what you are changing. You end the day by writing up the coaching notes from the morning, so the conversation does not live only in your head.
IN THIS ROLE MEANS
- The training program is running well, good participation, real behavior change, and a structure that holds even when you are not in the room.
- The site lead and the operational leads run a stronger team than they did before you arrived, and they can name specific conversations that changed how they work.
- The clients you support notice the difference, not just in the teams they see, but in how the whole building feels, and say so in QBRs and NPS responses.
- The standards you set are understood and held by the whole team, not just the…
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