Director, Design Management
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Job Summary
Director Design Management
THE COMPANY:
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the worlds most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building owning and operating highly efficient cost-effective wholesale colocation and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability security connectivity and physical resilience.
STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.
THE POSITION:
STACK is seeking a Director Design Management to drive the evolution of design standards digital engineering capabilities and innovation initiatives across the Americas. This role is accountable for advancing STACKs data center design strategy overseeing the integration of digital technologies and ensuring that facilities are developed to meet the highest standards of efficiency scalability and cost-effectiveness.
As a senior leader the Director will guide a cross-functional team manage relationships with external design partners and serve as a subject matter expert on data center innovation. This position will partner with the VP of Architecture to provide reporting to the Board of Directors ensuring visibility into design excellence innovation initiatives and capital impact.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Lead and mentor a team of design and engineering professionals building a culture of innovation accountability and continuous improvement.
- Drive innovation initiatives across the Americas aligning with STACKs long-term strategic vision for data center design and digital engineering.
- Oversee campus master planning efforts integrating automation AI and digital twin technologies into the design process.
- Review approve and oversee final delivery of project contract documents prepared by third-party consultants ensuring budget schedule and quality objectives are met.
- Maintain and evolve STACKs Basis of Design (BOD) documentation including Revit-based digital standards test-fit playbooks and BIM standards.
- Support construction teams with clash detection conflict resolution and the implementation of digital technologies for improved project delivery.
- Partner with Process and Development teams to implement Power BI dashboards cost and trend analysis and other tools to support data-driven decision-making.
- Manage multi-project design deviation logs to inform long-term process improvements and cost efficiencies.
- Provide leadership in the adoption of Digital Twin technologies establishing a roadmap for future implementation across STACK campuses.
- Communicate design policies practices and innovations across the company ensuring consistent application of standards and compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
- Present updates on innovation strategy budget performance and major initiatives to senior leadership and the Board of Directors.
- Serve as a thought leader in the data center industry keeping STACK at the forefront of design and engineering trends.
MUST HAVE QUALIFICATIONS
- Master of Architecture OR Professional Engineering degree (Structural Mechanical or related discipline).
- 10 years of progressive design or engineering experience including at least 5 years in the data center sector with hyperscale or enterprise clients.
- Demonstrated success managing multi-disciplinary teams and delivering large-scale design initiatives.
- Proficiency with Bluebeam Revu Revit AutoCAD and industry-standard project management tools.
- Expertise in BIM standards site master planning and integration of digital engineering processes.
- Strong financial acumen with experience in budget management and board-level reporting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
- Strong initiative with proven track record of process improvement and innovation leadership.
The Details:
- Location: Plano TX (will consider remote for well qualified candidates)
- Up to 30% domestic travel
- Compensation: $190000 to $210000 with 20% annual bonus potential
- Benefits: Healthcare Dental Care Vision Insurance Life Insurance Paid Time Off Paid Leave Programs
- Must be eligible to work in the United States
- Must pass comprehensive background screening
THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF:
- Youre a strong communicator youre persuasive and clear blending engineering analysis with experience in decision-making.
- You dont get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
- Youre a teambuilder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team.
- Youre naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.
WHY STACK
- We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits including medical dental and vision insurance a 401K program flexible spending accounts even a cell phone subsidy.
- We foster a culture of appreciation including rewards and recognition programs.
- Fun is part of our DNA with (currently virtual) events game nights and barbecues.
- Were growing this is a great time to join and make an impact!
Application Deadline: November 15 2025
STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity and expression age national origin mental or physical disability genetic information veteran status or any other status protected by federal state or local law.
Note to external agencies: we are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/cvs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to stack infrastructure will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Rhinoceros 3D
- Information Architecture
- Ux
- Usability
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Experience Design
- Grasshopper
- Sketch
- Sign Manufacturing
- Adobe Indesign
About Company
STACK is the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies and a leading global developer and operator of data centers.
