Associate Director, Projects
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026.
About us
Launched in 2017, WeWork India is one of India’s leading premium flexible workspace operators - GPTW certified (Nov 2024 - Nov 2025, Dec 2025 - Dec 2026). WeWork India has been the largest operator by total revenue for the past three fiscal years. Since its inception, WeWork India has expanded across 8 cities in Chennai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, and Hyderabad, with 79 operational centres spanning 9.1 million square feet. WeWork India has played a significant role in the growth of the flexible workspace sector and contributed to the evolution of its products and services, providing customised and curated solutions for various office space needs.
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About the Role
The Associate Director Project Management will lead the end-to-end delivery and governance of Managed Office and Design and Build projects across India. The role owns programme performance from project mobilisation through handover and commercial closure, ensuring that delivery commitments, quality, cost, safety, and operational readiness are consistently met. The role will provide strong leadership to regional project teams and act as a senior delivery partner to clients and internal stakeholders.
Roles and Responsibilities
Programme and project delivery
Lead a portfolio of Managed Office and Design and Build projects across multiple cities, from design and scope readiness through construction, testing and commissioning, handover, and closeout.
Own programme plans, critical-path reviews, milestone governance, and early escalation of risks that could affect opening dates, budget, quality, or member experience.
Ensure design readiness, BOQ completeness, procurement release, site mobilisation, construction sequencing, testing and commissioning, and opening-readiness gates are properly controlled.
Drive accurate Daily Project Reports and Weekly Project Reports for internal leadership and clients, with clear status, decisions required, risks, mitigations, and recovery actions.
Ensure effective coordination between Design, Building Engineering Studio, Estimation, Procurement, Operations, Technology, and the on-site project team.
Client and stakeholder leadership
Act as the senior execution point of contact for clients, establishing transparent governance, timely communication, and a high standard of service throughout delivery.
Partner with Sales, Client Solutions, Legal, and Finance to ensure contracts, scope, timelines, change orders, billing milestones, and client commitments are understood and delivered.
Lead senior reviews with PMCs, contractors, consultants, OEMs, and building stakeholders to resolve critical decisions and remove constraints.
Coordinate with Finance and Business Development or Client Solutions teams on project billing and receivables, ensuring timely documentation, invoicing inputs, and escalation of overdue dependencies.
Quality, safety, compliance, and handover
Establish and enforce standard project-management practices, site-management standards, quality benchmarks, safety requirements, and compliance controls across all projects.
Conduct periodic project health checks and site reviews to identify quality, safety, schedule, and commercial risks early and ensure closure through accountable action plans.
Ensure all project-related approvals, regulatory and local-authority compliance, statutory documentation, opening communications, and white papers are completed on time.
Ensure operational handover is complete and controlled, including punch-list closure, as-built drawings, warranties, O and M documentation, DLP registers, and clear ownership of post-handover actions.
Commercial and vendor management
Partner with Procurement on sourcing strategy, vendor allocation, tender evaluation, negotiations, contracting, and performance governance for assigned projects.
Own budget visibility and project cost governance, including value-engineering opportunities, cost approvals, change control, forecast accuracy, and commercial closure.
Drive performance improvement with vendors and consultants through structured reviews, quality feedback, recovery plans, and lessons learned.
People and capability leadership
Lead and mentor project managers and project teams across key regions; set clear expectations for planning discipline, reporting, site ownership, quality, and stakeholder management.
Build a high-accountability delivery culture through coaching, knowledge sharing, project retrospectives, and consistent use of approved project-management tools and checklists.
Contribute to scaling the D and B and Managed Office delivery model by improving processes, standards, vendor capability, and cross-functional ways of working.
Education and Desired Qualifications
Bachelor degree in Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering required. A postgraduate qualification in Construction Management or Project Management is preferred.
12 to 16 years of total experience, including substantial experience leading corporate interiors, commercial office fit-outs, Managed Office, or Design and Build projects.
Demonstrated record of managing multi-city or large-scale projects, teams, budgets, and senior client relationships.
Strong working knowledge of MEP, interior construction, testing and commissioning, safety practices, project controls, contracts, and local compliance requirements.
Strong programme leadership, decision-making, and executive stakeholder management.
Commercial acumen with sound understanding of contracts, change management, cost control, and vendor performance.
High proficiency in project planning, reporting, and digital project-management tools.
Ability to lead through ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and create recovery plans in a fast-moving delivery environment.
Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to engage clients, senior leadership, and site teams effectively.
Equal Opportunity Employer
WeWork India is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our employees and members. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
We expect all employees to embody our values and all aspects of employment including the decisions to hire and promote, are based on merit, competence, performance and business needs.
Our total rewards philosophy is aimed at providing compensation that is competitive, performance linked and helps us attract and retain the talent we need to drive our business forward and serve our members. As part of WeWork India, our commitment to you is that you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters collaboration, flexibility and inclusion.