Global Leader, Corporate Real Estate (CRE)

About the Role
ByteDance is seeking a Global Leader for Corporate Real Estate (CRE), a division of the Corporate Services department. The role leads our leased real estate portfolio worldwide: where we take space, and how it is planned and delivered.
We are looking for a leader with genuine passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence — someone who treats real estate as a driver of how teams work rather than a cost line to be administered, and who can create inspiring spaces that foster collaboration and unleash the full potential of ByteDance teams.

Responsibilities
- Set and execute the leased footprint strategy. Translate business growth and headcount plans into decisions on where we take, expand, consolidate, renew and exit leased space, and own the resulting lease portfolio rather than only reporting on it.
- Run the full lifecycle as one integrated model. Space planning, transaction management and project management — one chain of accountability, with defined standards and handoffs between stages.
- Build the global operating model. Preferred partners, performance metrics and governance applied across regions, with local execution where the market requires it.
- Own the economics. Fit-out capex and opex, occupancy cost per seat, lease obligations and supplier performance — defend the budget and improve the return on every square meter.
- Lead and raise the team. Build a distributed global CRE organization, set the talent bar and move decisively when it is not met.
- Create inspiring spaces. Bring innovation, design and sustainability thinking into how space is planned and designed.

Minimum Qualifications
- Deep corporate real estate background with genuine multi-region or global scope, and experience leading a distributed team rather than a single site.
- Hands-on experience across the full lifecycle — space planning, transactions and project delivery — with the specifics to back each one up.
- Commercial and financial fluency: lease structuring and negotiation, capital planning, cost benchmarking and vendor economics.
- Sharp judgment and clear senior-level communication; comfortable deciding with incomplete information in a fast-growing, matrixed organization.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications
- Professional credentials such as MCR, RICS, CoreNet or PMP.
- Experience running a global or multi-country portfolio inside a high-growth technology company.
- Track record of building a CRE function or team from an early stage, including defining standards and operating models.
- Exposure to workplace strategy, design standards and sustainability programmes at scale.