Space Data and Insights Manager

We are seeking a highly proactive and tech-forward space data and insights engagement manager to support a high-profile, fast-paced, and extremely agile technology client in the San Francisco Bay Area. This role involves leading floor-plan governance, managing vendor relationships, ensuring data integrity, and shaping future workplace data strategies using automation and emerging AI technologies., * Act as quality-control layer over the client’s floor-plan publications, performing pre-publication checks and post-launch validations

• Manage drawing validation, intake, and version control, issuing clear revision instructions to third-party vendors
• Own, maintain, and improve the CAFM/floor-plan process playbook, defining guidelines for ownership, approvals, publications, rollbacks, and escalation paths
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date space, desk, room, and neighborhood data reflecting portfolio changes
• Apply space-categorization principles to interpret floor plans and ensure data alignment with standards like BOMA and OSCRE
• Establish and perform routine space and data quality audits to resolve discrepancies
• Collaborate with the occupancy planning team to track requests, manage project handoffs, and report outcomes and risks
• Maintain strong relationships with IWMS vendors and design teams to ensure timely data corrections
• Foster trust and relationships with internal and external partners, including facilities, project management, and design teams
• Explore and implement automation, API integrations, and AI tools to improve database efficiency and drawing turnaround times
• Analyze existing space data processes to identify operational improvements

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interior design, facilities management, real estate, business, or a related discipline
• 5+ years of professional experience managing CAFM/IWMS database systems (experience with OfficeSpace preferred, or FM:Systems, TRIRIGA, Manhattan Centerstone, Archibus, Serraview, etc.)
• Strong familiarity with reading and interpreting floor plans, construction documents, and CAD standards
• Knowledge of office space measurement and categorization standards such as BOMA and OSCRE
• High comfort and curiosity regarding emerging AI, automation, spatial data APIs, and next-generation space management technologies
• Excellent written, verbal, and consultative communication skills for managing diverse stakeholders
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, rapidly shifting environment with limited direction

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in managing remote teams of up to four members
• Proven ability to lead process improvements and manage multiple projects simultaneously

Pay range is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. Talascend also offers a variety of benefits including: health and disability insurance, 401(k), EAP, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, plan requirements, schedule type, and client work site mandates.