Job Description
Working with individual designers to support their professional growth
Overview
Canonical – We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means ‘humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world’s biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world’s most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation – Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it’s the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.
Responsibilities
- Reviewing the work of your design team for quality. Job
- 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 Marketing and our Head of Brand, 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
Qualification
- A portfolio demonstrating quality in UI design, especially visually
- 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
Location: Lagos (Remote)
Apply: DESIGN TEAM MANAGER