Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Canonical
EMEA
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Skills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Communication","Active listening","Transparent delivery"]

Lead the Infrastructure Design team to make open source easy, improving the design and quality of products that enable cloud experiences and software distribution. You’ll review design work, coach designers, and evolve design systems and guidelines for consistency and efficiency. Partner closely with engineering stakeholders to define outcomes, strengthen operational workflows (including collaboration with Web Engineering), and engage the open source community to make the impact of your work clear.

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2 years ago

Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

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Job Summary

Lead the Infrastructure Design team to make open source easy, improving the design and quality of products that enable cloud experiences and software distribution. You’ll review design work, coach designers, and evolve design systems and guidelines for consistency and efficiency. Partner closely with engineering stakeholders to define outcomes, strengthen operational workflows (including collaboration with Web Engineering), and engage the open source community to make the impact of your work clear.
Location: EMEA
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Review the work of your design team for quality.
  • •Work with individual designers to support their professional growth.
  • •Continuously improve operational workflows, including production outsourcing and collaboration with Web Engineering.
  • •Work with stakeholders, especially Engineering, to clearly define and validate outcomes.
  • •Evolve design systems and guidelines to drive consistent quality and improve efficiency.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkLearning BudgetAnnual BonusPaid LeaveParental LeaveEmployee AssistanceRecognition RewardsPriority Pass

Key Requirements

  • •A portfolio demonstrating outstanding quality in UX design and savviness in technology.
  • •Exceptional educational achievements in design or related behavioral science discipline.
  • •Full lifecycle experience from user needs discovery through validation and implementation guidance.
  • •Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines.
  • •Experience managing a team that interacts with technical stakeholders.
Experience:Open sourceCloudDeveloper tools
Education:
Skills:LeadershipCoachingCommunicationActive listeningTransparent delivery
Languages:English
Tech Stack:UbuntuOpen sourceCloudSoftware as a serviceWeb Engineering

Company Brief

Canonical
Develops and maintains Ubuntu, a leading open-source Linux distribution, and provides cloud, IoT, and enterprise support, tooling, and services to enable deployment, management, and security of infrastructure and applications.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Bootstrapped
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2004
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