Design Management Lead

Fluidstack • Austin, TX

2d • $222,000 - $307,000

About The Position

Fluidstack is seeking a Design Management Lead to oversee design management across their build portfolio. This role involves managing all site design deliverables, consultants, and review cycles under a unified operating model. The Capacity Delivery Team is responsible for engineering gigawatts from drawing to energized status in months, not years, and designing data centers that can be built rapidly. They aim to engineer data centers that go up in months, not years, where rework is not an option and problems must be caught on paper. The team also focuses on designing it once and building it a hundred times, ensuring lessons learned from each site are incorporated into the reference design for future builds.

The Capacity Delivery Team works on key problems such as engineering gigawatts from drawing to energized, in months not years. They own technical execution across every build, including drawings, field questions, and engineering calls to keep multiple concurrent gigawatt sites moving. They also engineer data centers that go up in months, not years, emphasizing that rework is not an option and problems must be caught on paper or they will cost a data hall. The team's philosophy is to design it once and build it a hundred times, with each site's lessons rolling into the reference design on the way to 50GW+, so each build starts ahead of the last.

Requirements

• Led design management on large industrial or mission critical programs with multiple firms in flight.
• Held design firms to schedules they called aggressive, and they delivered.
• Read across disciplines well enough to catch the cross-discipline gaps single-discipline reviewers miss.
• Built review processes that made packages better and faster at the same time.

Nice To Haves

• Data center design programs.
• Owner-side design management.
• Modular and DfMA delivery.
• BIM-based review workflows.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
• Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed