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Amazon's Integrated Design Solutions (IDS) team seeks an Architectural Design Manager to lead composite design delivery across fulfillment operations. This role drives spatial coordination of building shell, material handling equipment, and safety modules while managing cross-functional design programs.
You'll own end-to-end composite delivery, integrating architectural drawings with MHE layouts and operational requirements. Lead clash detection, establish BIM standards, and ensure construction-ready designs meet launch timelines. Manage design resources across concurrent projects while serving as primary interface to WWDE, Operations, and Construction partners.
Key job responsibilities
Lead spatial design and architectural coordination integrating building shell, material handling equipment, and safety modules across fulfillment operations. Translate architectural drawings into operational composites, coordinating structural constraints, ceiling heights, and building systems with MHE layouts. Overlay safety modules (5S, egress, fire protection, WHS compliance) to facilitate safe working conditions. Conduct clash detection between building structure, MHE systems, and operational modules using Navisworks. Manage design resources across concurrent projects while serving as primary interface to WWDE, Operations, and Construction partners. Establish BIM standards and drive process improvements that scale across the organization.
A day in the life
Your day balances strategic program management with hands-on design leadership. You start by reviewing delivery status across your portfolio, identifying risks, and adjusting resource allocation to keep projects on track. Mid-morning, you're in Revit resolving a complex clash detection issue that's blocking a critical milestone. By afternoon, you're leading a composite review with WWDE and Operations partners, facilitating decisions on scope changes and ensuring alignment on delivery timelines.
You communicate with clarity and authority, making decisions that balance design quality, schedule pressure, and stakeholder expectations. When timelines compress or scope expands, you assess impact, propose solutions, and bring cross-functional teams to consensus.
About the team
The Integrated Design Solutions (IDS) team is Amazon's in-house design and scan organization, delivering the composite products that power network expansion across 17+ business units. We sit at the intersection of operational design, BIM data governance, and scan technology with direct impact on how Amazon builds, launches, and scales its fulfillment network.
Our team supports a diverse portfolio of building types including mixed-use fulfillment, pharmacy, Hazmat, Air, and Leo operations. We drive end-to-end composite delivery, clash detection, and under-the-roof design readiness ensuring design visibility is in place before breaking ground.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems, or experience managing teams
- 6+ years of design program management experience
- Experience with AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, and MS Office Suite
- Experience working in a collaborative team environment to deliver high-quality design solutions
- Experience in managing and troublshooting network, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in Engineering (any domain) or foreign equivalent, Operations, Business Administration, or a related field
- Experience with complex automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and systems and high-speed manufacturing
- Experience with design-in-safety
- Experience with process design based on Lean Principles
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Bellevue - 99,300.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually