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Vantage Data Centers

Design Manager, NA

Quincy, WA · Hybrid

Collaborating closely with the Regional Product, Design Engineering, New Site Development, Construction and Operations teams, Design Management functions as the interconnective hub that owns the ...

Imerys

Mine Manager

Quincy, WA · On-site

Responsibilities include all mine operations and property required activities, crushing and ... road design, etc. * Responsible for producing the annual capital and operating budget for the ...

Southland Industries Inc.

Project Manager

Wenatchee, WA

$100K - $143K/yr

... design, such as HVAC, plumbing, etc., as well as general understanding of system operations. * A ... Experience managing subcontractors * Strong computer skills, including CADD, ERP and Microsoft ...

Southland Industries

Project Manager

Wenatchee, WA · On-site

$100K - $143K/yr

... design, such as HVAC, plumbing, etc., as well as general understanding of system operations. * A ... Experience managing subcontractors * Strong computer skills, including CADD, ERP and Microsoft ...

Southland Industries Inc.

Project Manager

Wenatchee, WA

$100K - $143K/yr

... design, such as HVAC, plumbing, etc., as well as general understanding of system operations. * A ... Experience managing subcontractors * Strong computer skills, including CADD, ERP and Microsoft ...

H5 Data Centers

Data Center Mechanical Engineer

Quincy, WA · On-site

$140K - $150K/yr

... Management Systems and mechanical measurements. Maintains design documentation. Provides full life-cycle support to H5 Data Centers from concept design through site implementation and operations.

H5 Data Centers

Data Center Project Manager

Quincy, WA · On-site

$125K - $130K/yr

... the operation at the Data Center facilities. Works to make sure proper operating procedures ... Data Center Design * Mechanical * Electrical projects * Provide Management status of all active ...

Team LINX

Fiber Splicing Manager

Quincy, WA · On-site

$90K - $130K/yr

... operations, low voltage cabling systems, and mission-critical infrastructure to drive successful ... We design, install, and support commercial network cabling for data centers, multimedia, security ...

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How much do design operations manager jobs pay per year?

As of Jul 20, 2026, the average yearly pay for design operations manager in Wenatchee, WA is $68,464.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $44,200.00 and $83,600.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Design Operations Manager, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Design Operations Manager, you need expertise in project management, design process optimization, and a solid understanding of design principles, often supported by a degree in design, business, or a related field. Familiarity with tools like Asana, Jira, Figma, and resource management systems, as well as certifications like PMP or Agile, is highly beneficial. Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills help you bridge gaps between creative and operational teams. These skills are vital for streamlining workflows, ensuring project delivery, and driving alignment across multidisciplinary teams.

How does a Design Operations Manager typically collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve workflow efficiency?

A Design Operations Manager works closely with design, product, engineering, and marketing teams to streamline processes, set clear priorities, and remove obstacles that hinder productivity. They often facilitate regular check-ins, build and optimize workflows, and implement tools or systems that foster communication and transparency. By acting as a liaison and ensuring alignment between departments, they help the broader team deliver high-quality design work on time, while also identifying opportunities to refine processes for future projects.

What is the difference between Design Operations Manager vs UX Designer?

AspectDesign Operations ManagerUX Designer
Primary FocusOversees design processes, tools, and team workflowsDesigns user experiences and interfaces
Required SkillsProject management, process optimization, leadershipUser research, wireframing, prototyping
Work EnvironmentCollaborates with design teams, product managers, and developersWorks directly on user interface and experience design
Common CertificationsProject Management Professional (PMP), Agile certificationsUX certifications (e.g., NN/g, Human Factors)

The Design Operations Manager focuses on streamlining design workflows and managing teams, while the UX Designer concentrates on creating engaging user experiences. Both roles often collaborate but serve different functions within the design process.

What are Design Operations Managers?

Design Operations Managers are professionals who streamline and optimize processes within design teams to improve efficiency, collaboration, and the quality of creative output. They bridge the gap between design, product, and business operations by implementing workflows, managing resources, and ensuring projects stay on track. Their responsibilities often include project management, budget oversight, and facilitating communication across teams. By establishing best practices and removing operational barriers, Design Operations Managers enable designers to focus more on creative work and innovation.
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Critical Environment Operations Manager

Critical Environment Operations Manager

Microsoft

Quincy, WA • On-site

Full-time

Posted 12 days ago

Microsoft rating

8.5

Company rating: 8.5 out of 10

Based on 131 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

68th of 209 rated software companies

Job description

Overview
Microsoft's Cloud Infrastructure and Operations (MCIO) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a Critical Environment Operations Manager, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform.
Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters in 32 countries and millions of servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.
With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Data Center Operations
  • Clarifies and refines strategic vision to communicate to their teams and drives alignment of operational strategies with a security-first culture. Brings suggestions including security enhancement to local management team and/or global leaders or partners. Reviews Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance indicators (KPIs) and provides input to improve or make KPIs and OKRs more efficient/effective. Understands key business drivers and where Data Center Operations (DCOPS) feeds into business success. Understands connections between different organizations and their related initiatives. Suggests or recommends risk-based decisions or escalates based on what is best for business and strategy, and without all the data. Frames DCOPs challenges in context of business expectations and drives business context. Understands key financial metrics, understands how to grow an organization, and exhibits a One Microsoft mentality. May change course and strategically delegates tasks.

  • Influences guidelines that to ensure they are consistent with contractual service agreements and security standards. Holds team or organization accountable for ensuring third party compliance with Microsoft security, safety, and all other guidelines. Holds team or organization accountable for abiding by all service level agreements (SLAs). Evaluates and implements policy updates to enhance security posture across operations. Holds team or organization accountable for investigating root cause of policy faults, degradation, and security incidents and suggests improvement plans. Holds team accountable for policy plan improvements with focus on maturity and lowering costs. Drives alignment on dependencies, supplier contracts, success metrics, resource readiness, operational, supportability, and manageability criteria. Ensures audits, global and regional initiatives, and third-party guidelines are upheld. Drives accountability with landlord to adhere to MSFT service-level agreement.

  • Advocates, follows, and adheres to processes and policy(ies) provided by security and safety governing partners. Reports immediately any safety or security issues or concerns. Ensures Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes are followed when required. Makes recommendations for improvements to safety and security processes or procedures. Empowers and ensures team fosters and exhibits a culture of safety. Ensures no unauthorized or unescorted personnel access secured production environments, ensuring alignment with security practices and standards. Oversees and drives completion and validation of physical access list audits of personnel accessing secured production environments and related systems. Defines, specifies, and maintains physical space groupings for physical access across varying production environments. Manages non-compliance as needed, in collaboration with key stakeholders. Conducts regular reviews with health, safety, and security business partners. Evaluates regular security risk assessments of data center operations and prioritizes and aligns the design, build, and delivery of technology, tools, data, and processes to meet high security standards. Defines and communicates security Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across teams and resolves complex action items.

  • Demonstrates conscientiousness on cost, adheres to budget requirements, and regularly employs sound fiscal strategies to reduce costs or improve fiscal efficiency from best practices. Seeks input from team members or subject matter discipline experts as required to meet timely and accurate targets for budget allocation. Monitors employee's Purchase Orders (POs) and oversees team and organization After-the-Fact (ATFs) if present. Supports annual budget planning and forecasting exercises. Forecasts demand costs, drives awareness among business leaders on the business implications of service management issues, and negotiates with business leaders to win resources to ensure that the long-term value of the service is maintained. Works with the cost model and reporting system to enable the forecasting, tracking, reporting of costs, security and operational risks, and dependencies for a significant portion of the country or region. Articulates level of importance on priorities needed to maintain availability expectations. Adjusts plans based on assigned financial spend for the year. Plans and works with business partners on executing their requirements to maintain adherence to data center availability, security, and safety across their geographic scope. Approves or implements identified opportunities for cost reduction and efficiency.

  • Assigns tasks and resources in alignment with other teams in the organization. Validates technical dependency and gap analysis to verify readiness for IT projects and ensures that technical dependencies are managed. Ensures that resources and team capabilities are consistent with expected service standards. Leads their team and champions broader efforts across the organization to achieve service requirements and service level agreements (SLAs)/operational level agreements (OLAs) for multiple services. Influences business partners to adopt solutions that optimize cost and business need. Understands and influences tooling mechanisms to manage resources and prioritizes the need to ensure critical roles within teams are appropriately staffed and developed. Ensures priorities are assigned based on business impact, manages accountabilities within and between teams, and makes appropriate tradeoffs. Focuses on team morale and recognizes team wins.

Data Center Work Environment
  • Understands and drives changes which impact the work of others and proactively shares relevant information to enable continued workflow efficiency(ies). Participates in change advisory board (CAB) meetings. Drives change adherence and implementation completely in accordance with documented procedures, accurately, and in a timely manner. Drives business changes across the organization with clearly articulated plans and direction that ensure smooth implementation and minimize disruptions to the business. Proactively monitors the internal and external environment to anticipate opportunities to support or improve incoming changes or projects. Applies change management principles (e.g., PROSCI vs. ITIL) and guides their teams and organization during times of change with appropriate methodology(ies). If not already covered by other roles, drives and/or delivers release management overviews, meetings, or conversations with their team or organization to support understanding of broad-level change(s). Provides strategic guidance to teams on assessing the security implications of planned changes and drives implementation of mitigation strategies to ensure any identified risks are addressed before implementation.

  • Delegates to promote growth and development of future leaders. Finds opportunities for collaboration across groups in the division, ensures that cross-team commitments are set, and achieves scale in their work efforts by enabling the work of others.

People Management
  • Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others.

Service Delivery
  • Drives the analyses of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and provides direction to address observed trends or anomalies. Leads key processes, such as team and triage meetings, prioritizes work across the team, and rebalances priorities to respond to changes. Reviews contracts with landlords and third-party vendors, ensuring alignment with security needs and standards. Participates in regular operational meetings to review OKRs and/or KPIs. Analyzes data and collaborates with and influences internal business partners, clients, and vendors to improve OKRs and/or KPIs and increase efficiency. Identifies discrepancies in data and reports observations and partners with groups as needed to resolve improvement observations. Leverages data and analytics to determine, recommend, and secure needs for resources to deliver to OKRs.

  • Drives stakeholder and cross functional partnerships. Develops, grows, and leverages relationships with clients and suppliers to ensure that all expectations and operational, safety, and security requirements are clarified, understood, documented, and met. Communicates with clients and partners. Works with regional support teams to implement changes (e.g., regional or global initiatives like process improvement, safety, compliance, security, engineering, tooling). Makes connections and builds network for teams as needed. Sets example and empowers teams to work collaboratively. Proactively identifies potential cross function engagement issues and mitigates accordingly. Works with business partners to establish a collaborative process to enable understanding of business partners' areas of expertise. Effectively engages across cross functional teams and makes connections and builds network for teams as needed. Empowers teams to work collaboratively and creates visibility to help other teams succeed with regional/global management team. Holds external partners accountable to Microsoft's security standards.

  • Manages multiple complex technologies projects or programs across multiple disciplines to meet service delivery Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Manages resources appropriately to accommodate pilot programs and task force participation. Supports and removes obstacles or escalates to appropriate stakeholders within partner teams. Champions a security-oriented perspective in escalation procedures to safeguard infrastructure integrity. Sets criteria and requirements for service execution tooling standards and identifies and drives the adoption of a standard toolsets across multiple service teams. Promotes the adoption of security-enhancing tools and practices. Ensures information, awareness, and changes resulting from escalations are communicated throughout their team or organization as appropriate. Supports engineering organization(s) and partners as needed, or provides input to mature tooling in meeting field operations requirements. Drives adoption of approved engineering released tools and systems with their team(s) to support day-to-day operational processes and procedures and protect against current and emerging threats while providing feedback and perspectives regarding tooling performance and quality. Proactively identifies potential issues to prevent escalations, but, provides guidance in support of correct escalation of issues to appropriate owner(s) when necessary. Understands the service management perspective(s) to ensure that business leaders correctly factor the implications and risks of their decisions to effectively delivering the service. Oversees audits or risk assessments for potential security vulnerabilities or threats and provides direction on remediation plans to address findings.

  • Provides communication and resolution to issues related to programs, projects, and incidents to drive Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) and/or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) compliance. Presents incident Post-Mortem outcomes and/or approves Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Post-Mortem reporting, including security incidents. Approves and partners with business management and finance partners to secure budget needed for identified service delivery improvements. Triages and prioritizes complex problem management scenarios while documenting and driving mitigation strategies. Leads their team to design multi-discipline service and technology solutions that reduce the risk of deployment and environmental issues prior to production release. Drives and delivers RCAs where appropriate, across multiple functions and disciplines. Drives an organization and team culture of continual improvement to timeliness and quality response(s) to data center incidents. Manages volume, responds promptly to clients, constructively manages stress and confrontation, and approaches situations assuming positive intent. Handles uncertainties in a calm and confident manner. Forms viable working relationships with teams, partners, lessors, and stakeholders for mutually beneficial outcomes.

  • Guides resolution of service incidents and escalates, as appropriate, to achieve applicable Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) or supporting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with minimal disruption to the client and business. Partners with others within or beyond local teams/campus/metro as needed, while directing efforts of their team to troubleshoot and resolve issues. Shares common and repeating cases or observations of service issues with regional/global support teams. Shares be

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Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 100 datacenters and 1 million servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide. With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.

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