Senior Manager, Design Delivery - USA

The posting, as Volta wrote it

ABOUT VOLTA

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Design Delivery to own and lead the delivery of coordinated, multidisciplinary designs for Volta’s AI factory projects in NA.

You will be accountable for project design delivery throughout the design stage and remain closely engaged with the Delivery team through procurement, construction, commissioning and handover. You will manage the design scope and associated programme, interfaces and deliverables, ensuring the right information and decisions are available when needed to support successful project delivery.

Working closely with the Volta Product, Technology, Corporate Development, Engineering, Operations and Delivery teams, you will translate requirements into a clear project design brief and lead external design partners in applying Volta’s Reference Design to each site. You will move easily between technical detail and the wider project picture, balancing performance, reliability, cost, speed of delivery and operability. The role will also involve liaising with customer teams to incorporate their requirements into the project design brief.

What You Will Do

› Own the delivery of the project design from initial brief through to detailed design, ensuring design deliverables meet the agreed scope, quality, budget and programme requirements.

› Provide ongoing design support through procurement, construction, commissioning and handover, assisting the Delivery team during these stages.

› Establish and maintain the project design brief with customers, Product, Engineering, Operations and Delivery, capturing requirements, scope boundaries, acceptance criteria and responsibilities.

› Develop and manage the design delivery programme, aligning design packages, reviews, approvals and information release with key project milestones.

› Coordinate design inputs to planning, permitting and statutory approvals with local design partners and the relevant Volta teams, ensuring requirements and approval conditions are incorporated into the design and delivery programme.

› Lead and coordinate external design partners across all disciplines, setting clear scopes, deliverables and accountabilities and managing performance against agreed quality, programme and budget expectations.

› Manage the application of Volta’s Reference Design and engineering standards to
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

ACCESSIBILITY

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