Senior Project Manager, Real Estate (18-month Contract)

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.
This is an 18-month contract role with the potential to extend. The role is remote/hybrid with travel to project sites (~20% expected). You’ll report to 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.