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Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Canonical 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland

Full-time Senior

Lead the Infrastructure Design team, review design quality, coach designers, and manage delivery against the team roadmap and deadlines. Collaborate with engineering and other stakeholders to define outcomes, improve workflows and design systems, strengthen team culture, and engage the open source community.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Infrastructure Design team, review design quality, coach designers, and manage delivery against the team roadmap and deadlines. Collaborate with engineering and other stakeholders to define outcomes, improve workflows and design systems, strengthen team culture, and engage the open source community.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have a strong UX design portfolio, technical fluency, full lifecycle design experience, and experience managing a team that works with technical stakeholders. The role also calls for strong communication and coaching, transparent project delivery, familiarity with quantitative optimization, and a relevant design or behavioral science education.

Benefits

  • Remote Work
  • 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 Collaboration Team Coaching Leadership Mentoring Full‑Lifecycle Design Interaction Design Information Architecture Prototyping Wireframing Usability Testing Design Thinking Agile Practices 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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