Global Head of Real Estate and Workplace

Company Overview

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency. Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

Company Operating Rhythm

At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.

Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work. We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here. Candidates should be comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly, integrating AI into their workflows, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can do.

Additionally, we move at the pace of AI. Change is rapid, and you can expect your day-to-day work to evolve just as quickly. This may not be the right role if you’re not excited to experiment, adapt, think on your feet, and learn constantly, or if you’re seeking something highly prescriptive with a traditional 9-to-5.

About the Role

We are growing our geographic footprint and opening multiple workspaces and event spaces across the U.S. and internationally. Most of these locations serve a dual purpose. They are working spaces for Deepgram employees and public event venues that host meetups, hackathons, and customer and developer gatherings. Designing and operating space that does both well is a key aspect of this role.

Right now, real estate decisions, office openings, construction projects, and facilities operations are spread across many people. We need one responsible and experienced owner who knows how to do this all end to end. Someone who can read a lease, walk a construction site, manage a vendor, and think clearly about how a space shapes culture, brand, and community.

As Global Head of Real Estate and Workplace, you will take full ownership of Deepgram's physical spaces from site selection through to operational, welcoming offices. You will find potential real estate, negotiate and manage leases, run buildout projects, stand up facilities operations, and build the repeatable playbook we use to open and run every Deepgram location. Then you will hire and lead a small team to run it with you.

This is a player-coach role. You will be in the work, not above it, and you will build the function as you go.

What You'll Own

Requirements Scoping & Internal Stakeholder Management

Converting the CEO and executive team’s vision into a documented program for each site

Gathering requirements across Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Developer Relations, People, IT, Security, and Finance to determine how each space will be used and what it needs to solve for

Reconciling competing requests into a single prioritized brief, secure executive approval, and own that brief as the source of truth for architects, general contractors, and all subsequent change decisions

Capacity & Space Planning

Occupancy forecasting and space programming against the company headcount plan, in partnership with Finance and People

Recommendations on the size, timing, and location of new and expanded space, grounded in utilization data rather than anecdote

The tradeoff at each site between event capacity, collaboration space, and focus work, documented and revisited as headcount changes

Real Estate & Leasing

Site selection, tours, and location recommendations as we evaluate new and expanded spaces

Lease negotiation and renewals, partnering with Finance and Legal on LOIs, term sheets, insurance needs, and commercial terms, including tenant improvement allowances, free rent, escalations, letters of credit and security deposits, restoration and holdover obligations, assignment and sublease rights, and expansion and termination flexibility

Analysis of lease versus license, coworking, and short-term venue alternatives in markets where a long-term commitment is not yet warranted