As the Senior Director, Global Real Estate & Workplace Services, you will lead Bose's global real estate portfolio and workplace services strategy, overseeing a global footprint of 1.8M+ square feet across a mix of owned and leased sites worldwide, including corporate offices, R&D/lab environments, light manufacturing, and specialized automotive experience and garage spaces. You will lead a globally distributed team responsible for enterprise real estate, portfolio optimization, and workplace services that enable business growth, operational efficiency, and employee experience at scale. 

Bose is entering a period of accelerated global growth and transformation that is reshaping the type of work we do, who is doing it, and where work gets done. In this role, you will drive a forward-looking global real estate and workplace strategy that aligns with evolving business priorities while creating environments that enable innovation, collaboration, operational efficiency, and employee experience across the globe. Success in this role requires the ability to connect enterprise strategy to portfolio decisions — balancing long-term vision with disciplined execution across a complex global footprint. 

Working closely with executive leadership and cross-functional partners across Finance, HR, Legal, Operations, IT, Security, and Corporate Development, you will translate business priorities into scalable real estate and workplace solutions that support growth, resilience, cost discipline, and evolving ways of working. You bring strong strategic and financial acumen, deep transaction and broker management expertise, experience leading global workplace services and facilities teams, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders through data-driven insights, clear recommendations, and practical operating plans. 

Key Responsibilities 

Enterprise Real Estate Strategy & Business Partnership 

• Lead the strategy, governance, and evolution of Bose’s global real estate portfolio, aligning investments and workplace strategy with business growth, workforce priorities, financial objectives, and employee experience. 

• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on portfolio optimization, market expansion and consolidation, workplace transformation, capital planning, and M&A-related real estate implications. 

• Translate business demand, workforce trends, and operating model changes into scalable portfolio, occupancy, and workplace solutions supported by data-driven insights and financial analysis. 

• Evaluate and recommend real estate strategies and transactions through financial, operational, risk, employee experience, and long-term flexibility lenses. 

Portfolio Optimization, Transactions & Lifecycle Management 

• Lead the end-to-end real estate lifecycle across a global portfolio of 1.8M+ square feet spanning office, lab, light manufacturing, and specialized automotive environments. 

• Drive portfolio performance through site selection, lease negotiations, renewals, consolidations, dispositions, acquisitions, occupancy planning, and workplace standards that balance global consistency with local business needs. 

• Establish governance, broker management, and execution standards to ensure disciplined transaction management, strong external partnerships, and effective portfol