Design Manager, WD&C, Workplace Design & Construction (WD&C) [Corporate Workspace Interior Architect / Fit-Out Design Lead]

Amazon Dev Center India (ADCI) is seeking a highly creative, execution-driven Design Manager, WD&C, Workplace Design & Construction to join our Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) team in a dual location layout across Hyderabad or Bengaluru . Operating at the core of our corporate real estate footprint, this strategic position owns the design, implementation blueprinting, and documentation tracking of greenfield new-build and major retrofit tenant improvement (TI) projects spanning multi-floor office corporate spaces inside the India portfolio .

Key Responsibilities & Scope of Work

• Tenant Improvement (TI) Blueprinting: Direct and verify the interior design of high-volume workspace renovations, ensuring strict alignment with Amazon's global Basis of Design (BoD) principles .
• External Vendor & AoR Governance: Manage and audit external design partner firms, Lead Designers, and local Architects of Record (AoR) to secure exact project delivery metrics .
• Global Guideline Authoring: Translate newly deployed interior design layout concepts into clear visual models and formal spatial narratives for integration into global workplace standards .
• Continuous Design Refinement: Leverage operational data matrices, post-occupancy metrics, and directly gathered user behavioral insights to drive spatial optimization changes .
• Cross-Functional GREF Interlock: Partner closely with internal real estate nodes—encompassing Preconstruction, Construction Managers, Sustainability, and Environment Health & Safety (EHS) teams .
• Cultural Nuance Localization: Infuse hyper-local and cultural functional parameters into standardized workspace floor plans while preserving structural employee experience parity .

Required Qualifications & Technical Stack

• Spatial Design Industry Tenure: Minimum of 6 years of verified, non-internship professional history explicitly spent steering commercial interior architecture, fit-out designs, or real estate transformations .
• Professional Design Verification: Must maintain an accessible, high-fidelity online professional design portfolio displaying past technical blueprints and spatial solutions .
• Data Diagnostics & Business Intelligence: Proven background gathering and analyzing large amounts of operational data strings to implement continuous workplace improvements .
• Regional Travel Commitment: Absolute operational agility to fulfill regional travel assignments across corporate office sites approximately 10% to 20% of the time .
• Preferred Value-Adds: Strong functional familiarity with project management methodologies (Agile to Waterfall), drafting corporate design playbooks, managing risk critical paths, and project scheduling .
• Core Soft Skills: Outstanding verbal and written consultative storytelling properties, an ability to balance frugality with creativity, and comfort navigating highly ambiguous guidelines .