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Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

CanonicalAbidjan, Ivory Coast

Full-time Senior

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

Requirements

  • Candidates should have a strong UX design portfolio, technical fluency, 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, use quantitative optimization approaches, communicate transparently, and be willing to travel up to four times a year.

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

Design leadership UX design Infrastructure design Design systems Design quality review Coaching and mentoring Roadmap planning Deadline management Collaboration with engineering Stakeholder communication Quantitative optimization User research Validation Implementation guidance Open‑source community engagement Travel coordination

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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