Data Center Design Execution Lead

Responsibilities

Design Execution & Partner Oversight

• 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.

Change Management & Technical Continuity

• 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.

Constructability & Risk Management

• 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.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• 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

• 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 Qualifications

• 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.