Senior Design Manager, Infrastructure — Remote (EMEA)

Canonical Ltd.; Paris; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote working environment

2,000 USD learning budget per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel to sprints

Priority Pass for travel upgrades

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a Senior Design Manager to lead the Infrastructure Design team and deliver tooling for developers and cloud engineers. You will coach designers, drive outcomes, and ensure timely delivery against roadmaps in a remote-first, globally distributed company.

You will lead a team shaping cloud experiences, software distribution, and security of packaging. Role is remote in the EMEA region with global collaboration and travel for in-person sprints.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating outstanding quality in UX design and savviness in technology.
• 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 managing a team that interacts with technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with quantitative optimization approaches.
• Passion for balancing consistency and innovation.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Responsibilities

• Review the work of your design team for quality.
• Support designers’ professional growth.
• Improve operational workflows, including production outsourcing and collaboration with Web Engineering.
• Collaborate with Engineering to clearly define and validate outcomes.
• Evolve design systems and guidelines to drive quality and efficiency.
• Coordinate with design leadership to mature our collective practice.
• Bring your team and others together to share work and strengthen culture.
• Engage the open source community to learn and make our value legible.

Skills

UX design

Design leadership

Stakeholder management

User research

Design systems

Education

Design degree or related behavioral science

Tools

Figma

InVision

Sketch

Job description

Canonical is hiring a Senior Design Manager to lead the Infrastructure Design team and deliver tooling for developers and cloud engineers. You will coach designers, drive outcomes, and ensure timely delivery against roadmaps in a remote-first, globally distributed company.

You will lead a team shaping cloud experiences, software distribution, and security of packaging. Role is remote in the EMEA region with global collaboration and travel for in-person sprints.