Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Reviewing the work of the 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 the collective practice
• ▹Bringing the team and others together to share their work and strengthen culture
• ▹Engaging the open source community to learn and make the value of the work legible

Requirements

• ▹A portfolio demonstrating outstanding quality in UX design and savviness in technology
• ▹Exceptional educational achievements in design or a 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
• ▹Familiarity with quantitative optimisation approaches
• ▹A passion for balancing consistency and innovation
• ▹Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Soft skills

About the company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets; the Ubuntu platform is widely used in pioneering enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, and IoT. The company has 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries, is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, and is founder-led, profitable, and growing.