Data Center Design Execution Lead

Anthropic

Design Execution Manager for Anthropic managing technical requirements of datacenter delivery partners. Collaborating across teams to ensure technical goals and quality standards are achieved.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $320,000 - $405,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive execution of Anthropic’s technical requirements for third-party datacenter delivery partners, ensuring design intent is consistently translated from BOD through construction documents.
Define the design execution framework—deliverable requirements, review gates, and quality standards—for each partner engagement.
Drive accountability for partner deliverable quality across milestones, evaluating deliverables for cross-discipline consistency and alignment to Anthropic’s requirements.
Partner with external design teams and stakeholders to execute design document development and issuance across all project phases.
Own the design change management process across projects, ensuring technical decisions are documented, resolved, and implemented through construction.
Review and develop responses to contractor RFIs, maintaining design intent while accommodating field conditions.
Own technical continuity across design, construction, commissioning, and turnover, driving alignment between internal leads on phase transition standards and acceptance criteria.
Support project closeout and as-built documentation processes.
Facilitate constructability review processes between design and construction teams, surfacing integration risks raised by discipline leads for resolution, maintaining alignment between design intent and field execution as conditions evolve.
Drive risk identification and mitigation through partner QA/QC processes, across the design and construction lifecycle.
Direct and supervise external partners and owners reps conducting site reviews, ensuring technical reports adequately capture design compliance and construction progress.
Interface with internal stakeholders—construction execution, supply chain, facilities operations, and security—to align design solutions with technical and business objectives.
Partner with internal teams to define infrastructure requirements and translate them into actionable design criteria for external partners.
Identify and implement opportunities for process improvements, design optimization, and schedule/performance/cost tradeoffs.
Oversee partner-led commissioning review, ensuring outcomes are documented against Anthropic's standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years managing complex capital/infrastructure programs, including datacenters, spanning design and delivery phases.
Experience managing design execution or technical programs in partnership with external design/construction firms — design management, owner's engineering, or program management backgrounds all fit.
Working familiarity with mechanical, electrical, and cooling systems sufficient to manage technical discussions and hold discipline experts accountable
Experience managing design change processes, RFIs, and construction documentation workflows.
Track record of coordinating across multiple disciplines and organizations on complex infrastructure projects.
Familiarity with industry standards, building codes, and safety standards applicable to mission-critical facilities.
Comfortable operating with authority in ambiguous environments where processes need to be built, not just followed.
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Architecture, or related field.
Preferred: Professional Engineer (PE) or Registered Architect (RA) license.
Proficiency with Revit/BIM, Autodesk, or similar design software applications.
Experience integrating sustainability, energy efficiency, and resiliency goals into datacenter system designs.
Direct experience with large-scale AI/HPC infrastructure, including high-density cooling systems and power distribution at 50+ MW scale.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation and benefits
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
Lovely office space for collaboration

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Hard Skills & Tools

design managementprogram managementtechnical program managementdesign change managementconstruction documentation workflowsmechanical systemselectrical systemscooling systemssustainability integrationenergy efficiency

Soft Skills

accountabilityrisk identificationprocess improvementcommunicationcollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingadaptabilitystakeholder managementconstructability review

Certifications

Professional Engineer (PE)Registered Architect (RA)BS in Mechanical EngineeringBS in Electrical EngineeringBS in Architecture