Facilities and Real Estate Manager

About Clear Street:

Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets. 

We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Our platform is fully integrated with central clearing houses and exchanges to support billions in trading volume per day. We’ve agonized about our data model abstractions, created horizontal scalability, and crafted thoughtful APIs. All so we can provide a best-in-class experience for our clients. 

By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we’re building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Team: 

We are seeking an experienced and driven Facilities & Real Estate Manager to oversee our global office portfolio and lead the build-out of our New York office expansion. This role is critical to ensuring our physical workspaces are well-managed, cost-effective, safe, and aligned with Clear Street’s growth and culture.

You’ll be the key point of contact for all things related to facilities operations, space planning, vendor management, and real estate strategy across our international offices. You will work closely with executive leadership and the People Operations team to create and maintain a warm and inclusive office environment at our Headquarters in downtown Manhattan, while also delivering a consistently positive workplace experience across our satellite offices in San Diego, Tampa, West Palm Beach, and Chicago. This role will have direct supervision of the Facilities team and requires you to be onsite five days a week.

This is an exciting opportunity to manage the Facilities and Real Estate program at a fast-growing fintech company. You will have the opportunity to make an impact in a highly visible role.

You Will:

• Oversee and elevate Clear Street’s workplace experience for all employees across all of our facilities. This includes our headquarters at 4 World Trade Center, remote coworking, and direct lease facilities.
• Create a coworking and hybrid workplace strategy to ensure that Clear Street staff have a world class employee experience, regardless of their location.
• Lead real estate planning and strategy in alignment with business needs and growth projections.
• Manage any required build outs, remodels, facilities-related equipment purchases, and services required in Clear Street offices.
• Ensure all locations comply with health & safety regulations and environmental standards.
• Serve as the project lead for the New York office build-out, overseeing design, construction, and move-in phases.
• Partner with architects, contractors, designers, and internal stakeholders to deliver the project on time and within budget.
• Lead office relocation or expansion projects as needed globally.
• Gather metrics regarding space utilization, forecasted needs, costs and staff sentiment regarding the office experience.
• Work with senior leadership to optimize team placement, as well as manage their growth and other evolving needs to ensure their facilities and office related needs are met.
• Develop facilities strategies that elevate the experience in Clear Street offices for employees and guests, while maintaining cost effectiveness.
• Oversee the office management team at Clear Street. This includes managing our cafeteria, office products, and other consumables in our facilities as well as cleaning and periodic maintenance.
• Manage supply ordering to maintain supplies in our kitchen as well as handle ordering weekly company lunches and food/beverage orders for internal company events like town halls.
• Develop and manage facilities budgets, track expenses, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Collaborate to plan and execute events onsite. 

Requirements:

• At least seven (7) years of experience in a facilities, corporate services and/or office management role at a corporate office of at least 250 professional employees.
• Manage office operations and deliver a high level of client service in an employee-centric environment.
• Experience partnering with other cross functional teams to plan, organize and execute small office events as well as larger company functions.
• Strong knowledge of real estate strategy, lease negotiation, and facilities operations.
• Proven experience delivering commercial office build-outs, ideally in the US.
• Excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong communication and vendor management skills.
• Experience working in fast-paced, scaling environments.
• Experience of operating within a Brokerage, Trading, FinTech environment is an advantage.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite Applications, Dropbox, and Google Workspace.

The Base Salary Range for this role is $130,000 - $170,000. This range is representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Where a candidate falls in this range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. This range represents Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The range stated does not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses or equity.

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, beginning on January 2, 2023, we are requiring employees to be in the office 4 days per week. In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.

Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. #LI-Hybrid