Strategy Director, WeWork Greater China

About the Role
WeWork China is now hiring a Strategy Director, responsible for formulating and driving the Greater China strategic agenda, leading the strategic project portfolio and PMO governance, providing decision support to management and the board, and driving the implementation of growth opportunities, business models, digitalization, and cross-departmental strategic initiatives. This role requires close collaboration with product, operations, marketing, finance, legal, technology, and frontline teams, and alignment with Greater China and global teams.

Key Responsibilities
• Strategic Agenda and Planning: Formulate Greater China’s medium
- and long-term strategy, annual strategic priorities, and growth path; conduct market, competitive, and customer insights; evaluate new products, new business models, and growth opportunities, and develop actionable recommendations for senior executive decision-making.
• Strategic Project Portfolio and PMO Governance: Establish and maintain the Greater China strategic project portfolio; define project initiation, prioritization, milestones, dependencies, risks, changes, and review mechanisms to ensure alignment with global strategy.
• Implementation of Strategic Initiatives: Translate management’s strategic direction into executable projects, clarifying objectives, scope, owners, timelines, and delivery standards; continuously track execution progress and outcomes.
• Executive and Board Decision Support: Prepare strategic materials, management/board reports, decision documents, and scenario analyses; provide actionable recommendations and track decision items to closure.
• Growth and Commercialization Assessment: Lead business cases and financial modeling for new products, pricing, site selection, membership growth, channels, and partnership models; support strategic partnership assessment and negotiation with landlords and partners.
• Cross-functional and Change Leadership: Coordinate product, operations, marketing, finance, legal, technology, and frontline teams; resolve project dependencies and resource conflicts; drive change management and frontline adoption.
• Data and Digital Strategy: Formulate and govern the digital roadmap, data governance principles, and prioritization of BI/KPI capabilities; drive digital initiatives through project management, coordinating business requirements, delivery teams, and frontline users.
• Performance and Operating Rhythm: Design and govern KPI/OKR frameworks, operating dashboards, and strategic initiative tracking mechanisms; diagnose performance gaps, propose action plans, and follow up.
• Stakeholder and Organizational Influence: Maintain strategic communication with landlords, partners, and internal senior executives; share best practices with Greater China and global teams to promote alignment across data, strategy, and operations.
• Team and Capability Building: Lead or coach the strategy and PMO team/cross-functional project teams; establish PMO toolkits, templates, project dashboards, and review mechanisms; improve the organization’s project management maturity and data literacy.
• Undertake other related work as required by business needs. Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree or above in business/economics, management, STEM, or a similar field; master’s or MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of full-time experience covering strategic project management, PMO, strategic operations, management consulting, or corporate strategy; including 5+ years leading complex cross-functional projects, serving as PMO lead, or managing teams.
• Proven track record in formulating and driving company-level or regional strategy implementation, with the ability to effectively influence C-level management and the board.
• Solid strategic project portfolio and PMO governance capabilities; familiar with project initiation, prioritization, milestones, dependencies, risks, changes, and review mechanisms.
• Strong business and market analysis, business case, and financial modeling skills; able to translate analysis into project decisions and action plans.
• Experience in digital transformation project management; able to govern business requirement prioritization, delivery scope, progress, risks, and frontline adoption.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, and change management skills; able to drive project implementation in complex organizations.
• Experience in team leadership, coaching, and capability building; growth mindset and proactive learning attitude.
• Excellent communication skills; able to clearly articulate complex issues to non-technical audiences and senior executives; proactive problem-solving and able to provide easy-to-understand answers in a timely manner.
• Fluent in written and spoken Chinese and English; Cantonese preferred.
• Familiarity with the business environment in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area preferred; interest in flexible office, enterprise services, and proptech preferred.
• Willingness to travel within Greater China.