Design Management Lead

Design Management Lead LocationAustin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WAEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentDeliveryCompensation$250K – $292KTo provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings. Our compensation package includes base salary, equity for all full time roles, benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans.This range reflects a good-faith estimate based on the applicable pay scale, the range previously established for this role, the compensation of individuals currently in equivalent positions, and/or the budgeted amount for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, qualifications, and other factors.We welcome compensation discussions if this range doesn't meet your requirements. Outstanding candidates may be eligible for adjusted terms, plus meaningful equity that ensures you benefit directly from the company's long-term performance.Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units. About FluidstackWe exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it. We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!How We OperateExtreme 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 TeamExamples of key problems the team is working onEngineer 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 ScopeLead 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 ForThe below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.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...