Principal Transaction Manager, Corporate Real Estate

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About the Team

The Global Real Estate & Workplace team creates and continuously improves Workday's productive and safe office environments while supporting our core values and distinction as a great place to work.

About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Transaction Manager to drive our most sophisticated Corporate Real Estate (CRE) deals. In this critical individual contributor capacity, you will lead transactions from the initial Letter of Intent (LOI) stage through to completion. Serving as the primary point of contact, you will coordinate with external brokers and internal stakeholders to ensure each deal is compliant, de-risked, and perfectly matched with our strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

Deal Execution & Strategy

• End-to-End Leadership: Direct the full lifecycle of high-value, global commercial real estate transactions, ensuring all critical milestones are met on time and within budget.
• Strategic Planning: Prepare, recommend, and implement comprehensive transaction strategies for both the acquisition and disposition of properties.
• Investment Committee Preparedness: Develop and communicate highly sophisticated investment recommendations and deal summaries.
• Operational Tracking: Track all transaction activity, driving clean and effective partnership to impacted stakeholders, both internal and external.

Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

• Create a checklist that incorporates all elements needed to make a decision that includes aspects from Operations, Safety/Security, Design/construction, and sustainability.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with internal teams—including Design & Construction, Operations, Safety/Security, and Legal—as well as external brokers to ensure total alignment on all transactional nuances.
• Operational Integration: Lead new initiatives, processes, standards, and operational plans that support and elevate broader functional goals.
• Seamless Post-Closing Hand-offs: Facilitate a clean, structured hand-off to Operations teams post-closing to guarantee minimal business disruption and on-time project execution.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive corporate real estate experience, successfully executing complex transaction management strategies, including commercial acquisitions, dispositions, and leases.
• Bachelor's Degree is required.

Other Qualifications

• Proven expertise in managing and executing complex, high-value commercial real estate transactions on a global scale.
• Strong history of creating significant financial value and delivering impactful, de-risked results for corporate portfolios.
• Master-level project management skills with the ability to manage multiple fluid, high-stakes deals simultaneously.
• Advanced understanding of real estate financial modeling, forecasting, transaction accounting, and value creation metrics.
• Comfort operating in fast-paced, rapidly changing environments.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to effectively orchestrate, influence, and unite diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to confidently navigate real estate contracts, LOIs, leases, and purchase agreements in partnership with legal counsel.

Compensation & Benefits

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.

• Primary Location (Atlanta, GA): $141,000 - $211,600 USD
• Additional US Locations: $134,000 - $238,000 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. We spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners.

Equal Opportunity

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.