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Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Canonical 🇲🇼 Lilongwe, Malawi

Full-time Senior

Lead the Infrastructure Design team, review design quality, coach designers, and support their professional growth while ensuring roadmap outcomes and deadlines are met. Collaborate with engineering and other stakeholders, improve workflows and design systems, and engage the open source community to strengthen the quality and impact of infrastructure products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Infrastructure Design team, review design quality, coach designers, and support their professional growth while ensuring roadmap outcomes and deadlines are met. Collaborate with engineering and other stakeholders, improve workflows and design systems, and engage the open source community to strengthen the quality and impact of infrastructure products.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have a strong UX design portfolio, exceptional education 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 teams working with technical stakeholders, be comfortable with quantitative optimization, and be committed to transparent delivery and balancing consistency with innovation.

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 User research Quantitative optimization Design system development Workflow improvement Open‑source community engagement Cross‑functional collaboration Leadership and coaching Team mentorship Roadmap planning Stakeholder communication Design quality review Technical stakeholder liaison Transparent delivery Balancing consistency with innovation Behavioral science principles Design validation Implementation guidance

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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