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Volta is building a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform with a mission to make compute as dependable and available as electricity. The company is backed by a $10B strategic partnership with a leading frontier AI lab, Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund. With 100+ employees across London, Palo Alto, and New York, Volta is scaling rapidly.
As Senior Manager, Design Delivery, you will own and lead the delivery of coordinated, multidisciplinary designs for Volta's AI factory projects across North America. You will be accountable for project design delivery from initial brief through detailed design, and remain closely engaged with the Delivery team through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own design delivery from brief through detailed design, ensuring scope, quality, budget, and programme requirements are met
- Establish and maintain project design briefs with customers, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Delivery teams
- Develop and manage design delivery programmes, aligning design packages, reviews, and approvals with project milestones
- Lead and coordinate external design partners across all disciplines, setting clear scopes and managing performance
- Manage application of Volta's Reference Design and engineering standards to each project, coordinating site-specific adaptations
- Lead multidisciplinary design coordination reviews, resolving interfaces between civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and GPU compute infrastructure
- Serve as principal point of coordination for project design matters with customers and internal stakeholders
- Plan and lead design reviews and stage gates with tracked actions and approvals
- Work with Project Controls, Delivery, and Procurement teams on design package boundaries and technical tender evaluations
- Embed construction sequencing, prefabrication, modular delivery, and maintainability into designs
- Manage design changes through formal change control processes
- Remain engaged during construction, coordinating technical queries and design clarifications
- Work with Operations and commissioning teams on testing, maintenance, and handover requirements
- Champion health and safety throughout design delivery
- Maintain visibility of design risks, assumptions, and outstanding decisions
Requirements:
- Degree in engineering, architecture, construction, or equivalent relevant experience
- Significant experience managing multidisciplinary design delivery for large-scale data centers, AI factories, or similarly complex infrastructure
- Track record of taking projects from concept through detailed design and supporting procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover
- Strong understanding of interfaces between building infrastructure, power, cooling, controls, and compute, including high-density AI and GPU facility requirements
- Experience translating customer, product, and operational requirements into clear design briefs and coordinated deliverables
- Proven ability to lead external consultants and coordinate internal technical specialists, suppliers, and contractors
- Experience managing design programmes, consultant scopes and fees, stage gate reviews, design changes, and technical information release
- Understanding of how reference designs are adapted to site conditions and local requirements while maintaining portfolio consistency
- Strong commercial judgment balancing design quality, capex, schedule, constructability, reliability, and operability
- Familiarity with BIM coordination, common data environments, and document control processes
- Experience integrating offsite manufacturing, prefabrication, and DFMA into coordinated designs
- Confident communication skills for explaining design issues and trade-offs to customers, technical teams, and senior stakeholders
- Collaborative and accountable approach with ability to resolve competing priorities and drive decisions to closure
- Willingness to travel to project sites, customer meetings, and design partner locations across North America
