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Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Canonical 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain

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, meet roadmap deadlines, improve workflows and design systems, and strengthen collaboration and engagement with the open-source community.

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, meet roadmap deadlines, improve workflows and design systems, and strengthen collaboration and engagement with the open-source community.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have a strong portfolio in UX design and technology, exceptional educational achievements in design or a related behavioral science discipline, and full-lifecycle experience from user research through validation and implementation guidance. They should have experience managing a team working with technical stakeholders, be comfortable with quantitative optimization, and be willing to travel up to four times a year.

Benefits

  • Remote Work
  • 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 Travel coordination 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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