Senior Project Manager, Real Estate

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to own end-to-end execution of real estate design and construction projects across our global portfolio. You will be the day-to-day operator on active projects, managing consultants, contractors, schedule, budget, and stakeholder coordination from intake through commissioning and close-out. You’ll hold the technical, commercial, and relational layers of delivery so that complex builds land on time, on budget, and on brief. The role is hybrid (in office 3 days/week) with travel to project sites (~20% expected). You’ll report to the Lead, Real Estate Project Management.

Responsibilities:

Project execution, end-to-end

• Own assigned projects from intake through commissioning and close-out.
• Build, maintain, and pressure-test the project schedule against milestones. Surface schedule risk early and propose mitigations.
• Own the project budget at the line-item level. Track committed versus forecast versus spend, manage change orders, and flag variances above tolerance.
• Maintain the project risk log and publish weekly status updates.
• Own project close-out documentation and lessons-learned capture.

Contract administration and commercial management

• Draft, negotiate, and administer consultant and contractor agreements across architect, engineer, GC, sub-trades, and specialty vendors.
• Run RFPs and bid analysis for prime consultant and contractor selection on assigned projects.
• Issue and track POs, invoices, change orders, and payment certificates through procurement systems.
• Lead commercial negotiation on fees, scope, and business contract terms.

Drawing and submittal review

• Review consultant drawing packages at schematic, design development, and construction document stages for completeness, constructability, and alignment to brief.
• Mark up architectural, mechanical, and electrical drawings for coordination and conflict resolution.
• Pressure-test consultant timelines and scope assumptions before they are accepted.
• Coordinate technical reviews with internal stakeholders across Facilities, IT, AV, Security, Brand, and Marketing.

Vendor and consultant management

• Manage prime consultant and GC relationships through the full project lifecycle.
• Coordinate sub-trade scope across millwork, AV, IT, lighting, and FF&E.
• Hold consultants accountable to deliverables, deadlines, and contract terms, and resolve performance issues directly.

Stakeholder communication

• Keep internal Shopify stakeholders aligned through the build, across Facilities, IT, Brand, Events, Security, Culinary, and Port Operations.
• Lead project meetings including kickoff, weekly site, and owner-architect-contractor coordination.

Site oversight

• Conduct site visits at key milestones including mobilization, in-wall, finishes, and punch list.
• Coordinate with on-site port operations to compress disruption windows during live-port construction.

AI-enabled execution

• Use the team's internal AI tools and agents to accelerate day-to-day execution.
• Build net-new agents and AI-enabled workflows that accelerate execution and deepen the technical layer of the project process.

Reporting

• Own weekly status updates for cross-functional stakeholders, covering schedule, budget, risks, and decisions.
• Translate project status into exec-ready content for leadership decks and updates.

Qualifications:

• 5 to 7+ years of construction project management experience, preferably in commercial fit-out, hospitality, or office build environments.
• PMP certification.
• Demonstrated ownership of multi-million-dollar capital projects from design through close-out.
• Strong contract administration and commercial negotiation experience.
• Comfort reading and reviewing architectural, mechanical, and electrical drawing sets.
• Strong written communication, with the ability to translate site complexity into executive-ready summaries.
• Comfort working across multiple time zones, vendors, and internal stakeholders, and the judgment to know when to escalate.
• Client-side project management experience, with the perspective of representing the client through design and construction rather than executing as the GC.
• Demonstrated ability to manage risk and escalate effectively, with examples of preventing or recovering schedule and budget impacts on complex builds.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Commercial construction background, with extensive experience on boutique projects (hospitality, premium retail, or design-led commercial fit-out) where design intent, craft, and finish detail set the bar.
• Familiarity with AutoCAD, Revit, and Procore.
• Experience executing projects across multiple jurisdictions in North America and Europe.
• Hands-on experience with AI tooling such as Claude or custom agents as part of everyday project delivery.

How to Apply:

If this sounds like the kind of work you want to be doing, we want to hear from you. Please submit your application along with a brief note (300 words max) on a recent project you delivered that didn't go to plan: the moment you had to make a hard call, the decision you made, and what you'd do differently.