Workplace Operations Manager

Normal Computing Incredible Opportunities

The Normal Team builds foundational software and hardware that help move technology forward supporting the semiconductor industry critical AI infrastructure and the broader systems that power our world. We work as one team across New York San Francisco Copenhagen Seoul and London.

Your Role in Our Mission

Own how Normals offices run day to day growing in scope as Normal grows as a company. Today that means a primary office in New York and offices in London Copenhagen San Francisco with upcoming expansion in Seoul and potentially France. Based in our New York office youll partner with the local hosts and leaders in each location to ensure our team has what they need to advance our mission bring the culture of Normal to each office and keep every site running efficiently.

This is a builders role coming in at a great stage for impact. The function does not exist in a fully formed state today and you will design the playbooks vendor relationships tools and operating cadences that let workplace operations scale cleanly as Normal grows from a startup into a global organization.

Success is measured by offices that consistently run without anyone having to think about them vendor relationships that deliver against clear standards an onboarding experience new hires remember as seamless and the speed and quality with which Normal can spin up a new location when the company decides to.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day operations across Normals offices: Manage facilities supplies maintenance and office environments to a consistently high standard and oversee catering programs vendors contracts and ongoing quality management.

• Manage the facilities budget: Track spend manage expenses flag inefficiencies and coordinate with the Finance lead on budget planning expense reviews and invoice processing.

• Lead space planning and real-estate support across the global footprint: Maintain office layouts seating plans and capacity tracking; support space-planning decisions based on headcount growth and team needs; coordinate internal moves desk allocations and reconfigurations; assist with lease tracking renewals and landlord coordination; and partner with leadership on expansions subleases or consolidations.

• Lead the buildout of new office locations as Normal scales. Build repeatable documented playbooks for launching new offices. Lead the Normals office expansion in Seoul and other worldwide locations.

• Evaluate select and implement workplace tools: Establish lightweight scalable processes across locations track and report on workplace metrics maintain process documentation and help standardize workflows globally across visitor management space booking supply ordering and more.

• Manage incoming workplace requests: Serve as the primary point of contact for workplace-related requests across the company.

• Support events and new hire logistics creating a wonderful experience for the company: Ensure our locations feel Normal: support office design decisions procurement decor and more to bring out our company culture at each site. Help plan and execute in-office events and team gatherings.

What Were Looking For

• Track record of owning workplace operations office management or facilities at a growing technical company.

• Comfort operating across multiple countries with a high degree of autonomy.

• Highly organized able to track dozens of threads across vendors sites projects and requests.

• Strong vendor management instincts working with vendors to achieve a high quality standard.

• Owners mindset on budget find efficiencies without degrading employee experience.

• Having built or substantially improved operational systems from scratch.

• Proactive communication as a default operating mode.

• Low ego high ownership and comfort with ambiguity.

Bonus Points For

• Having launched new offices and setting up in markets without an existing presence.

• Running workplace environments at a deep-tech hardware or research-heavy company.

• Standing up workplace tools (visitor management space booking ticket intake) from scratch.

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Manager