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Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted today
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Salary: Base pay depends on geographical location, experience, knowledge, and skills.
- Experience Level: Senior
- Key Benefit: Fully remote working environment
- Notable Requirement: Portfolio demonstrating outstanding quality in UX design and savviness in technology
Role overview
Canonical, a leader in open source software and operating systems, is hiring a Senior Design Manager to lead the Infrastructure Design team. This role is crucial in ensuring the quality and consistency of software experiences, particularly in cloud and developer tools. The position is remote, based in the EMEA region, and involves managing a design team, collaborating with technical stakeholders, and driving sustainable quality improvements.
Responsibilities
- Reviewing the work of your design team for quality
- Working with individual designers to support their professional growth
- Continuously improving operational workflows, including production outsourcing and collaboration with Web Engineering
- Working with stakeholders, especially the Engineering organization, to clearly define and validate outcomes
- Evolving design systems and guidelines to drive consistent quality and improve efficiency
- Coordinating with the rest of design leadership to mature our collective practice
- Bringing your team and others together to share their work and strengthen culture
- Engaging the open source community to learn and make the value of our work legible
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 of managing a team that interacts with technical stakeholders
- Familiarity with quantitative optimisation approaches
- A passion for balancing consistency and innovation
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Benefits
- Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
- The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
- The role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.
- Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.