Design Manager (Rail + Transit)

Location: Hybrid — US | CA | San Francisco, 345 California Street

Base compensation: $160,000–$230,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global is a full-service infrastructure consulting firm with more than 3,000 employees across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, delivering sustainable and resilient transportation and infrastructure designs.

What you will do

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering design teams through project development and delivery.
• Manage design processes, technical deliverables, schedules, budgets, quality expectations, and interfaces across major transportation programs.
• Provide design leadership and ensure technical solutions meet client requirements, regulatory standards, and project objectives.
• Collaborate with project managers, technical leads, clients, contractors, public agencies, and other stakeholders to resolve complex delivery challenges.
• Support client engagement, project pursuits, business development, and relationship building with public- and private-sector clients.
• Mentor engineering staff, support technical career progression, and improve design delivery processes and project performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Structural, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering; a Master’s degree is an asset.
• Current Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Approximately 15+ years of progressive engineering experience, with significant experience in Rail & Transit or the broader transportation infrastructure market.
• Strong understanding of design processes and project delivery requirements for major rail, transit, and transportation infrastructure developments.
• Proven experience managing and delivering complex engineering design assignments.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams and managing design interfaces across engineering disciplines.
• Ability to build productive relationships with senior-level clients, public agencies, contractors, and project stakeholders.
• Strong communication, leadership, organizational, influencing, and collaboration skills.
• Interest in mentoring, coaching, and developing technical professionals.

Nice to have

• Experience in the California transportation market and knowledge of regional agencies, clients, and infrastructure programs.
• Exposure to Design-Build, Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), or other collaborative project delivery models.
• Experience supporting major capital programs and large-scale transportation infrastructure developments.
• Experience in business development, client relationship management, and strategic project pursuits.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven environment focused on innovative, sustainable, and technically excellent infrastructure solutions.
• Career development and continuing education opportunities.
• Benefits may include medical, disability, and life insurance, paid time off, an employee assistance program, and retirement savings with company matching.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity, diversity, and non-discrimination.
• Full-time hybrid work arrangement.