Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Review the work of your design team for quality
• ▹Support individual designers in their professional growth
• ▹Continuously improve operational workflows, including production outsourcing and collaboration with Web Engineering
• ▹Work with stakeholders, especially the Engineering organization, to clearly define and validate outcomes
• ▹Evolve design systems and guidelines to drive consistent quality and efficiency
• ▹Coordinate with the rest of design leadership to mature the collective practice
• ▹Bring your team and others together to share their work and strengthen culture
• ▹Engage the open-source community to make the value of the work legible
• ▹Manage expectations and ensure deadlines are met against your roadmap

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

What we offer

• ▹Fully remote working environment, since 2004
• ▹Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• ▹Annual compensation review
• ▹Recognition rewards
• ▹Annual holiday leave
• ▹Parental leave
• ▹Employee Assistance Programme
• ▹Travel to meet colleagues at sprints
• ▹Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
• ▹Annual bonuses or sales incentives for certain roles

About the company

Canonical publishes Ubuntu and is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. It recruits globally and has been remote-first since 2004.