Design Manager - Team Lead
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Overview
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Design Manager, Team Lead Location: Hybrid onsite required 3 days per week in Austin, TX, Seattle, WA, New York City, NY, or San Francisco, CA. Additional 20% travel required as needed.Direct Hire FTE Salary Range: 275-340K/year plus equity TOP SKILLS:
" 10+ years of experience leading design management, design delivery, or multidisciplinary engineering programs.
" 5+ years managing architects, engineers of record (EORs), and external design consultants through SD, DD, CD, and IFC phases.
" Proven experience leading design reviews across civil, structural, architectural, electrical, and mechanical disciplines.
" Experience holding design firms accountable to aggressive schedules, deliverable quality, and constructability requirements.
" Demonstrated success identifying and resolving cross-discipline design conflicts before construction.
" Experience translating field RFIs, commissioning findings, and lessons learned into improvements to future design standards.
Preferred: hyperscale data center, mission-critical, semiconductor, industrial, or large-scale infrastructure experience.
How We Operate
Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
The Capacity Delivery Team
Examples of key problems the team is working on
Engineer gigawatts from drawing to energized, in months not years. Capacity Delivery owns technical execution across every build: the drawings, the field questions, and the engineering calls that keep multiple concurrent gigawatt sites moving.
Engineer data centers that go up in months, not years. At that pace rework is not an option: problems get caught on paper or they cost a data hall.
Design it once, build it a hundred times. Every site's lessons roll into the reference design on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs, so each build starts ahead of the last.
Role Scope
Lead design management across the build portfolio: every site's design deliverables, consultants, and review cycles under one operating model.
Set the design schedule per site and hold architect and engineer of record firms to it, escalating slips while recovery is cheap.
Run the design review machine so packages clear constructability, cost, and reference-design conformance in one pass.
Own the interface between design and the field: RFI trends feed design fixes, not just answers.
What We're Looking For
You've led design management on large industrial or mission critical programs with multiple firms in flight.
You've held design firms to schedules they called aggressive, and they delivered.
You read across disciplines well enough to catch the cross-discipline gaps single-discipline reviewers miss.
You've built review processes that made packages better and faster at the same time.
Bonus: Data center design programs. Owner-side design management. Modular and DfMA delivery. BIM-based review workflows.
BENEFITS SUMMARY: Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.
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