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Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Canonical 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa

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 high-quality UX design portfolio, strong technical awareness, and experience managing a design team that works 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.

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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