Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring a senior design manager to play a key role making open source software available to the world. Our Design function ensures the experience of the software and infrastructure we build is true to our intentions, and delivers the tools our community and customers need. The Design Manager makes this possibl...

As a Senior Design Manager, you bring both experience managing design teams and have expertise in a deeply technical domain. This enables you to coach designers in creating tools for developers and cloud engineers, and cross-context to move towards tangible outcomes and lift the quality of their work. You will manag...

Reviewing the work of your 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 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

A portfolio demonstrating outstanding quality in UX design and savviness in technology
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