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Principal Design Manager - Data Center

Job Summary

Iron Mountain is seeking a Principal Design Manager to join our Data Center team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing enterprise-level design leadership for our most complex, high-risk, or strategically important data center programs. Functioning as a strategic builder, you will operate with broad autonomy across regional and global teams to govern design approaches across multiple sites, shape playbooks, and advise senior leaders on technical strategy and platform capability.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

In this role, you will:

• Provide Enterprise Design Leadership: Lead a portfolio of major developments and multi-site customer programs, managing systemic design risks across global markets to protect investment decisions.
• Govern Frameworks & Standards: Shape global reference designs, delivery models, and assurance playbooks by translating market trends, operational data, and emerging technologies into scalable requirements.
• Advise Executive Leadership: Resolve precedent-setting, highly ambiguous technical issues while advising senior leaders on design strategy, commercial trade-offs, and long-term capability needs.
• Build Organizational Capability: Partner cross-functionally across Construction, Operations, Finance, and Security while mentoring senior practitioners and sponsoring communities of practice without direct line-management authority.

Reasonably expected salary range: $163,400.00 - $217,900.00Category: Real Estate & Facilities