Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure) - Remote

Overview

The Senior Design Manager at Canonical plays a key role in making open source software available to the world, ensuring the design experience aligns with the company's intentions and meets community and customer needs.

In Short

• Lead the Infrastructure Design team.
• Manage design teams and coach designers.
• Ensure quality and timely delivery of design work.
• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders.
• Drive improvements in design systems and operational workflows.
• Engage with the open source community.
• Support individual designers' professional growth.
• Coordinate with design leadership for collective practice improvement.
• Review design work for quality assurance.
• Foster a strong team culture.

Requirements

• Portfolio demonstrating outstanding UX design quality.
• Exceptional educational background in design or related fields.
• Experience in full lifecycle design processes.
• Commitment to project delivery and team deadlines.
• Experience managing teams interacting with technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with quantitative optimization approaches.
• Passion for balancing consistency and innovation.
• Willingness to travel for internal events.

Benefits

• Fully remote working environment.
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Parental Leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Opportunity to travel for company events.
• Priority Pass for travel upgrades.