Workplace & Facilities Lead (West Coast)
Cognition is an applied AI company that operates Devin, an autonomous software-engineering agent.
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About Cognition
Cognition builds AI agents and models for software engineering. Its flagship product, Devin, can plan, write, test, and ship code in a customer’s existing codebase and tools.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the facilities team and own facilities operations for the San Francisco office end to end. You will manage vendors, build and track the facilities budget, set up preventive maintenance and escalation paths, plan for headcount growth and support events. You will also step in during high-traffic days and incidents, including some Friday nights and weekends.
Requirements
- 8+ years in workplace, facilities or real estate operations, including 3+ years managing teams
- Experience running facilities at a fast-growing tech company or high-end hospitality environment
- Strong vendor management and contract negotiation skills
- Comfortable owning a budget and making tradeoffs
- Calm, decisive leader able to handle incidents and competing priorities
- Flexible schedule, including some Friday nights and weekends
Responsibilities
- Manage, coach and grow the facilities team
- Build staffing and coverage plans across weekdays, evenings and weekends
- Hire for new roles as the team grows
- Own building operations, maintenance, security coordination and space readiness
- Manage vendor relationships including contracts, SLAs and performance
- Build and manage the facilities budget
- Set up preventive maintenance, issue tracking and escalation paths
- Plan space, moves and build-outs for headcount growth
- Partner with Employee Experience, Recruiting, Security and Finance
- Support large events and offsites
- Use employee feedback and data to improve the workplace
- Step in during high-traffic days, events and incidents