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Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Canonical 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Full-time Senior

Lead the Infrastructure Design team and oversee design quality, team development, delivery timelines, and operational workflows. Partner with engineering and other stakeholders to define outcomes, evolve design systems, improve software distribution and security experiences, and strengthen collaboration and community engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Infrastructure Design team and oversee design quality, team development, delivery timelines, and operational workflows. Partner with engineering and other stakeholders to define outcomes, evolve design systems, improve software distribution and security experiences, and strengthen collaboration and community engagement.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have a strong UX design portfolio, technical fluency, and experience managing a design team working with technical stakeholders. They should bring full-lifecycle design experience, clear project ownership, familiarity with quantitative optimization, and a relevant design or behavioral science education; travel up to four times a year is expected.

Benefits

  • Remote Working
  • Learning And Development Budget
  • Annual Compensation Review
  • Recognition Rewards
  • Annual Holiday Leave
  • Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Travel Opportunities
  • Priority Pass For Travel
  • Travel Upgrades

Key Skills

UX Design Design Systems Figma User Research Quantitative Optimization Design Ops Stakeholder Management Cross‑functional Collaboration Team Leadership Mentoring Designers Full‑Lifecycle Design Interaction Design Information Architecture Prototyping Wireframing Usability Testing Design Thinking Agile Methodologies Technical Fluency Behavioral Science

About Canonical

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, provides open source security, support and services. Our portfolio covers critical systems, from the smallest devices to the largest clouds, from the kernel to containers, from databases to AI. With customers that include top tech brands, emerging startups, governments and home users, Canonical delivers trusted open source for everyone.

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