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Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Canonical 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Onsite Full-time Senior

Lead the Infrastructure Design team, review design quality, coach designers, and manage delivery against the team roadmap and deadlines. Partner with engineering and other stakeholders to define outcomes, improve workflows and 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, review design quality, coach designers, and manage delivery against the team roadmap and deadlines. Partner with engineering and other stakeholders to define outcomes, improve workflows and 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 portfolio in UX design and technical fluency, full lifecycle design experience, and experience managing a team that works with technical stakeholders. The role also calls for strong project ownership, quantitative optimization familiarity, a balance of consistency and innovation, and willingness to travel up to four times a year; a degree in design or a related behavioral science discipline is specified.

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 Infrastructure design UX design Design quality review Coaching designers Roadmap planning Stakeholder partnership Workflow improvement Design system development Open source community communication Quantitative optimization Project ownership Travel coordination Technical fluency Portfolio presentation

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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