Senior Design Manager, Cloud Infrastructure & Open Source

Canonical Ltd.; Kuwait City; Remote; KWD 37,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Learning & development budget

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel to sprints

Priority Pass for travel

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a Senior Design Manager to lead the Infrastructure Design team, delivering tools and experiences for developers and cloud engineers. You’ll coach designers, align with product and engineering, and guide teams toward measurable quality improvements within a remote-first, globally distributed setup.

You will manage a technically-savvy design group, evolve design systems, and drive cross-functional collaboration while engaging with the open source community.

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 optimisation approaches.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Responsibilities

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

Skills

UX design

Leadership

Communication

Design systems

Travel readiness

Education

Design degree

Job description

Canonical is hiring a Senior Design Manager to lead the Infrastructure Design team, delivering tools and experiences for developers and cloud engineers. You’ll coach designers, align with product and engineering, and guide teams toward measurable quality improvements within a remote-first, globally distributed setup.

You will manage a technically-savvy design group, evolve design systems, and drive cross-functional collaboration while engaging with the open source community.