Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)
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Job description
A Senior Design Manager leading the Infrastructure Design team at Canonical, responsible for the products that help build cloud experiences and software distribution mechanisms. The role combines managing and coaching designers with expertise in a deeply technical domain, based remotely in the EMEA region.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA region
What you'll do
- 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
What we're looking for
- 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
Your team
Infrastructure Design team
Responsible for the products that help to build cloud experiences and software distribution mechanisms, and evolving the security of how software is packaged and delivered.
Benefits
- Fully remote working environment
- 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
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About Canonical
A leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
Canonical publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. It is founder led, profitable and growing, and has been remote-first since its inception in 2004.
Mission
To make open source software available to the world and be at the forefront of the global move to open source
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Remote-first company since 2004
- Founder led and profitable
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background
- Transparent project delivery
- Consistency and innovation