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Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Canonical 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark

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, strengthen design practice, and make the value of the team’s work clear to the open source community.

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, strengthen design practice, and make the value of the team’s work clear to the open source community.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have a strong UX design portfolio, expertise in a deeply technical domain, and experience managing a design team that works with technical stakeholders. They should bring full-lifecycle design experience, strong communication and coaching skills, familiarity with quantitative optimization, and a commitment to transparent delivery and meeting deadlines.

Benefits

  • Personal 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 Quantitative optimization Technical stakeholder collaboration Full‑lifecycle design User research Prototyping Design validation Implementation guidance Team leadership Coaching and mentorship Strategic communication Roadmap planning Design quality assurance Open‑source community engagement Agile methodology User‑centered design Data‑driven decision making Cross‑functional collaboration Problem solving

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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