Director, Design Management

Coreweave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Director to lead the Design Management team responsible for overseeing a diverse portfolio of data center projects. You will mentor Design Managers and ensure design execution meets scope, schedule, budget, and quality.

This role requires a deep foundation in MEP, architectural, or civil engineering, collaboration with Data Center Engineering and Data Center Technology, and readiness to travel 20% to data center sites.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data center design programs.
• Strong knowledge of MEP, architectural, civil disciplines.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to travel 20%.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Design Managers.
• Oversee portfolio design delivery across multiple data center projects.
• Establish design management processes and governance.
• Coordinate with architects, engineers, and vendors.
• Escalate risks and resolve scope conflicts.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring & Coaching

Design Management

Project Management

Vendor Management

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com .

What You'll Do

The Data Center Design team is responsible for managing the delivery of architectural, engineering, and technology designs across CoreWeave's global data center portfolio. The team coordinates the design lifecycle from early-stage project definition through construction, commissioning support and IT deployment, ensuring CoreWeave's technical requirements are incorporated into each project and delivered in accordance with established scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.

Working in partnership with the Data Center Engineering and Data Center Technology teams, Design Management integrates the work of internal subject matter experts, data center providers, architects, engineers, consultants, contractors, and equipment suppliers. Through disciplined project leadership, design coordination, and consistent execution, the team enables CoreWeave to rapidly and reliably expand its physical infrastructure to support next-generation, high-density compute workloads.

About the Role

We are seeking an accomplished Director level individual to lead the Design Management team responsible for overseeing project management across CoreWeave's data center portfolio. This individual will supervise, mentor, and develop a team of Design Managers, ensuring they have the direction, resources, processes, and cross-functional support required to deliver successful projects.

The Director will serve as CoreWeave's subject matter expert in design project management, with a professional foundation in MEP, Architectural, Civil, or a related engineering discipline. This role will be accountable for the management and coordination of multidisciplinary design activities across Greenfield developments, build-to-suit facilities, leased data centers, tenant fit-outs, renovations, infrastructure upgrades, and equipment replacement projects.

As a peer to the Director, Data Center Engineering and Director, Data Center Technology, the Director, Design Management will focus on design execution, project governance, resource allocation, consultant performance, and portfolio delivery. The role will partner closely with these technical leaders and their subject matter experts to ensure MEP, architectural, civil, low-voltage, structured cabling, and other technical requirements are incorporated into coordinated, constructible, and executable project designs.

The Director will also serve as the senior escalation point for design delivery issues, providing leadership in resolving scope gaps, coordination conflicts, schedule constraints, consultant performance concerns, and other risks that could affect project outcomes. This individual will maintain portfolio-level visibility while remaining capable of engaging directly in complex or distressed projects when additional leadership is required.

20% travel required to various data center sites.

In this role, you will:

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, manage, mentor, and develop a team of Design Managers. Establish clear expectations, provide ongoing coaching, evaluate performance, and support the continued growth of a high-performing team.
• Portfolio Design Delivery: Maintain oversight of design delivery across a portfolio of concurrent data center projects, ensuring each project is progressing in accordance with approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business requirements.
• Design Project Management Expertise: Serve as the organizational subject matter expert for data center design project management, establishing consistent methods for planning, coordinating, tracking, and delivering multidisciplinary design activities.
• Project Assignment & Resource Management: Assign Design Managers to projects based on complexity, geography, schedule, risk, and business priority. Monitor team capacity and develop staffing or consultant strategies to address resource constraints.
• Design Delivery Governance: Establish and administer design management processes, deliverable requirements, project controls, meeting structures, review milestones, decision logs, risk registers, change controls, and escalation pathways.
• Consultant & Provider Management: Oversee the performance of data center providers, architects, engineers, and other professional consultants. Establish expectations for deliverable quality, responsiveness, schedule performance, coordination, and adherence to contractual requirements.
• Executive Escalation & Risk Resolution: Serve as the se