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Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Canonical 🇴🇲 Muscat, Muscat Governorate, Oman

Full-time Senior

Lead the Infrastructure Design team, review design quality, coach designers, and support their professional growth. Partner with engineering and other stakeholders to define outcomes, improve workflows and design systems, meet roadmap deadlines, and strengthen the design practice and open-source community engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Infrastructure Design team, review design quality, coach designers, and support their professional growth. Partner with engineering and other stakeholders to define outcomes, improve workflows and design systems, meet roadmap deadlines, and strengthen the design practice and open-source community engagement.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have a strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality UX design and technical fluency, plus full-lifecycle experience from user research through validation and implementation guidance. The role also requires experience managing a design team working with technical stakeholders, strong delivery and communication skills, familiarity with quantitative optimization, and a relevant design or behavioral science education.

Benefits

  • 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 Infrastructure Design Design Quality Review Team Leadership Coaching and Mentoring Roadmap Management Collaboration with Engineering Design Systems Development Workflow Optimization Open‑Source Community Engagement Technical Fluency Quantitative Optimization Full‑Lifecycle Design Stakeholder Management Project Delivery

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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