Senior Design Manager, Data Centers
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Iron Mountain seeks a Senior Design Manager for its North America Design team to lead end-to-end design execution on major data center developments, customer deployments, phased expansions, and complex operational upgrades. The role leads multidisciplinary design delivery across the project lifecycle, aligning technical decisions with safety, customer, commercial, program, resilience, and sustainability goals. The ideal candidate brings substantial mission-critical project experience, technical expertise, commercial awareness, and leadership capability.
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At Iron Mountain we know that work, when done well, makes a positive impact for our customers, our employees, and our planet. That’s why we need smart, committed people to join us. Whether you’re looking to start your career or make a change, talk to us and see how you can elevate the power of your work at Iron Mountain.
We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways.
Are you curious about being part of our growth story while evolving your skills in a culture that will welcome your unique contributions? If so, let's start the conversation.
Senior Design Manager – Data Center
Job Summary
Iron Mountain is seeking an experienced Senior Design Manager to join our North America Design team. In this role, you will be responsible for end-to-end design execution on major data center developments, customer deployments, phased expansions, or complex operational upgrades. Working within a dynamic team, you will lead multidisciplinary design delivery across the full project lifecycle, ensuring technical decisions align with safety, customer, commercial, program, resilience, and sustainability goals.
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)
In this role, you will:
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Own End-to-End Design Execution: Define the design delivery strategy and lead major facility, campus phase, or complex regional programs from concept development through construction, commissioning, and handover.
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Direct Multidisciplinary Teams: Coordinate external consultants, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and internal stakeholders to integrate architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and security systems.
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Drive Risk & Financial Assurance: Oversee design reporting, risk management, and value engineering while leading the resolution of technical, commercial, and program risks.
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Partner & Mentor: Serve as the principal design partner across internal divisions (Construction, Operations, Security, Sustainability) while mentoring Design Managers to elevate regional practices.
What You’ll Bring (Skills & Qualifications)
The ideal candidate will have:
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Relevant Experience: Typically 10+ years of experience with substantial accountability for complex data center or mission-critical capital projects.
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Technical Mastery: Deep multidisciplinary understanding of critical-facility systems, consultant governance, codes/standards, permitting, and global vs. local compliance.
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Influence & Leadership: Strong commercial awareness to balance technical trade-offs against costs alongside proven capability to mentor and lead cross-functional teams through influence.
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Education & Travel: A four-year college degree in Architecture, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, U.S. Citizenship, and the ability to travel up to 25%.
What We Offer (Benefits)
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Compensation: Competitive compensation and total rewards packages aligned with your experience level.
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Work-Life Balance: Generous paid time off, holiday schedules, and flexible work options to support work-life balance.
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Health & Well-being: Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
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Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning, technical leadership, and career growth within Iron Mountain.
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Reasonably expected salary range: $123,500.00 - $164,700.00
Please note that an employee's starting salary may vary based on a variety of factors. Where State, Municipal, Provincial, Territorial or other legal minimum wages exceed the federal minimum wage, employees are entitled to the higher rate.
Category: Real Estate & Facilities
Iron Mountain is a global leader in storage and information management services trusted by more than 225,000 organizations in 60 countries. We safeguard billions of our customers’ assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and invaluable cultural and historic artifacts. Take a look at our history here.
Iron Mountain helps lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable digital and sustainable solutions, whether in information management, digital transformation, secure storage and destruction, data center operations, cloud services, or art storage and logistics. Please see our Values and Code of Ethics for a look at our principles and aspirations in elevating the power of our work together.
If you have a physical or mental disability that requires special accommodations, please let us know by sending an email to [email protected]. See the Supplement to learn more about Equal Employment Opportunity.
Iron Mountain is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. We recruit and hire applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law.
To view the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law posters and the supplement, as well as the Pay Transparency Policy Statement, CLICK HERE
Requisition: J0107197
How this job compares
Set against the 588 open Design Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$124–165K/yr
- US median$128–235K/yr302 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $144K, is 23% below the US median midpoint ($188K) — in the lowest quarter of Design Manager salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 14 open Design Manager jobs in North Carolina and 588 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Design Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 10 years at the median (461 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 402 of the 588 open Design Manager jobs (68%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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