Design Manager Jobs in Austin, TX
Design Manager jobs in Austin are in strong demand, with openings concentrated in the Domain, downtown, and East Austin across tech, fintech, and consumer product companies. Employers hiring right now include Amazon, Saronic Technologies, and DSV. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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- Job Category: Real Estate & Facilities
- Job Type: Full time
- Reqid: J0106941
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J0106941
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:
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.
Direct Multidisciplinary Teams: Coordinate external consultants, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and internal stakeholders to integrate architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and security systems.
Drive Risk & Financial Assurance: Oversee design reporting, risk management, and value engineering while leading the resolution of technical, commercial, and program risks.
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:
Relevant Experience: Typically 10+ years of experience with substantial accountability for complex data center or mission-critical capital projects.
Technical Mastery: Deep multidisciplinary understanding of critical-facility systems, consultant governance, codes/standards, permitting, and global vs. local compliance.
Influence & Leadership: Strong commercial awareness to balance technical trade-offs against costs alongside proven capability to mentor and lead cross-functional teams through influence.
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)
Compensation: Competitive compensation and total rewards packages aligned with your experience level.
Work-Life Balance: Generous paid time off, holiday schedules, and flexible work options to support work-life balance.
Health & Well-being: Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning, technical leadership, and career growth within Iron Mountain.
#Li-Remote
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.
To view the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law posters and the supplement, as well as the Pay Transparency Policy Statement
Requisition: J0106941
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.
- Job Category: Real Estate & Facilities
- Job Type: Full time
- Reqid: J0106941
US | AZ | Remote
US | TX | Remote
US | NJ | Remote
US | CO | Remote
US | VA | Remote
US | DC | Remote
US | GA | Remote
US | MD | Remote
US | IL | Remote
US | PA | Remote
Full time
J0106941
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:
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.
Direct Multidisciplinary Teams: Coordinate external consultants, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and internal stakeholders to integrate architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and security systems.
Drive Risk & Financial Assurance: Oversee design reporting, risk management, and value engineering while leading the resolution of technical, commercial, and program risks.
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:
Relevant Experience: Typically 10+ years of experience with substantial accountability for complex data center or mission-critical capital projects.
Technical Mastery: Deep multidisciplinary understanding of critical-facility systems, consultant governance, codes/standards, permitting, and global vs. local compliance.
Influence & Leadership: Strong commercial awareness to balance technical trade-offs against costs alongside proven capability to mentor and lead cross-functional teams through influence.
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)
Compensation: Competitive compensation and total rewards packages aligned with your experience level.
Work-Life Balance: Generous paid time off, holiday schedules, and flexible work options to support work-life balance.
Health & Well-being: Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning, technical leadership, and career growth within Iron Mountain.
#Li-Remote
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.
To view the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law posters and the supplement, as well as the Pay Transparency Policy Statement
Requisition: J0106941
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.
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Who's Hiring
- Amazon34
- Saronic Technologies9
- DSV4
- JLL4
- Meta4
Top Industries Hiring
- Distribution & Wholesale
- Staffing & Recruiting
- Construction & Real Estate
- Consulting & Professional Services
Design Manager Jobs in Austin: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a design manager job in Austin?
Focus your search on Austin's tech and SaaS companies clustered in the Domain and downtown, plus the growing fintech and healthtech firms in East Austin. Employers here respond well to candidates who show cross-functional leadership alongside a strong portfolio. Experience managing design systems or product design at scale stands out in Austin's product-heavy market more than generalist credentials.
Which companies hire design managers in Austin?
Austin design manager roles are posted by Amazon, Saronic Technologies, and DSV and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Austin's employer mix skews toward high-growth software companies, consumer tech brands, and enterprise SaaS firms that maintain in-house design teams.
Are there remote design manager jobs in Austin?
Yes, though remote availability depends on the role: design managers who lead strategy and stakeholder reviews tend to have more remote flexibility than those overseeing in-studio or hardware teams. About 50% of design manager openings tied to Austin are remote or hybrid as of November 2026. Product design and UX-focused roles at Austin's software companies represent the strongest share of remote options.
How can I get a design manager job in Austin with little or no experience?
The most realistic path in Austin is moving into a lead IC role first at one of the city's mid-stage startups, many of which promote internally before hiring externally for management. Austin's bootcamp and university community, including UT Austin graduates, creates entry pipelines at companies willing to develop first-time managers. Building a portfolio that shows cross-functional collaboration, not just visual output, accelerates that transition locally.
Which industries hire the most design managers in Austin?
Austin design manager roles concentrate in Distribution & Wholesale, Staffing & Recruiting, and Construction & Real Estate, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Austin's identity as a tech and startup hub means these sectors maintain the largest in-house design teams and hire most consistently throughout the year.
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