Data Center Design Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the design scope, deliverables, milestones, and dependencies from initial concept development to detailed design and construction support.

• Facilitate coordination among civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and physical network interfaces across data center buildings and campuses.

• Convert owner and hardware requirements into well-coordinated design criteria.

• Collaborate with discipline leads to address gaps and conflicting requirements.

• Conduct multidisciplinary design reviews.

• Monitor comments, decisions, technical risks, and actions until resolution prior to design release.

• Assess design modifications and clarify their impacts on reliability, safety, cost, schedule, and maintainability.

• Coordinate with external architects, engineering consultants, developers, and equipment suppliers.

• Collaborate with construction and commissioning teams on constructability, sequencing, RFIs, submittals, field issues, and design modifications.

• Maintain design documentation and handoff requirements.

• Integrate field and operational insights into reusable standards and reference designs.

• Partner with engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, and hardware teams to ensure design intent is preserved throughout construction and turnover.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Proven experience managing multidisciplinary design for data centers, mission-critical facilities, or similarly complex infrastructure.

• Technical knowledge of data center infrastructure and the interfaces among power, cooling, controls, structures, and physical networks.

• Experience in taking coordinated design packages through early planning, detailed design, and construction support.

• Proven ability to coordinate with external design consultants, engineering specialists, and construction partners.

• Proficient in reading technical drawings and specifications.

• Ability to identify interface gaps and collaborate with discipline experts to resolve them.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong discipline in issue tracking.

• Good judgment in balancing technical requirements with delivery constraints.

• Preferred: experience with hyperscale data centers, high-density AI or HPC infrastructure, or rapidly evolving mission-critical environments.

• Preferred: familiarity with liquid cooling, high-density power distribution, and evolving compute hardware requirements.

• Preferred: experience managing design reviews, quality checks, and technical change control across multiple concurrent projects.

• Preferred: experience with modular or prefabricated infrastructure.

• Preferred: familiarity with BIM, model coordination, clash detection, and engineering document-control tools.

• Preferred: experience supporting commissioning readiness, as-built documentation, and handoff to operations.

• Preferred: experience adapting reference designs and engineering standards to site-specific constraints.

• Preferred: professional engineering or architecture licensure, or relevant design and project management credentials.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.

• Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents).

• Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks).

• Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.

• 13+ paid company holidays.

• Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year.

• Paid sick or safe time.

• Mental health and wellness support.

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.

• Annual learning and development stipend.

• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.

• Relocation support for eligible employees.

• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided.