Hybrid Design Manager

at Vantage Data Centers

• Job title: Design Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $120,000 - $170,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Design Manager overseeing design integration and project delivery for hyperscale data centers at Vantage Data Centers. Coordinating across teams to ensure high-quality delivery and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Act as the connective hub coordinating all design-related communication, milestones, and deliverables across Development, Engineering, Construction, and Operations.
• Drive product standardization efforts in collaboration with the Product and Engineering teams, ensuring design solutions are both optimized and scalable.
• Represent Design Management in project governance, risk reviews, and executive updates, providing data-backed insight into performance and decision-making.
• Collaborate with Construction, Procurement, Telecom, Power, Security, Controls, Commissioning, and Operations teams.
• Manage RFI resolution, design clarifications, change controls, drawing revisions, and design risk escalations.
• Lead concept → schematic → design development → IFC (Issued for Construction) design phases for hyperscale campuses (50–500+ MW portfolios).
• Lead external architect and consultant teams, ensuring clear scope definition, performance management, and integration into internal workflows.
• Oversee design milestone delivery, reporting progress against defined KPIs including cost per MW, design cycle time, and change volume.
• Coordinate regional design feedback loops to improve the next generation of product and design standards.
• Manage design consultants, AE firms, specialty vendors, and technical stakeholders to deliver full drawings, specifications, calculations, BIM models, and design basis documentation.
• Maintain alignment with hyperscaler design standards, reference architectures, resiliency tiers, redundancy philosophies and security frameworks.
• Drive modular design, repeatability, standardization, and prefabrication strategies for speed of deployment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction, Mechanical or Electrical disciplines (or equivalent experience)
• 8–15+ years in mission-critical, data center, or industrial infrastructure design
• Experience delivering hyperscale facilities, colo campuses, or large critical infrastructure
• Technical leadership across MEP systems, redundancy models, and constructability
• Strong understanding of commissioning, integrated systems testing (IST), and operational handoff
• Travel required is expected to be up to 20% but may increase over time as the business evolves

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• life and AD&D
• short and long-term disability coverage
• paid time off
• employee assistance
• participation in a 401k program that includes company match
• many other additional voluntary benefits