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What you should know
We checked this opportunity from Canonical. It is listed as Africa eligible · wider Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
The work location is Home based - Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Employer-stated compensation: Salary not included in the job posting.
Job description
About this role
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. 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 possible through leadership within, and beyond, our teams. 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 manage expectations and ensure deadlines are met in a timely manner against your roadmap. You will be able to communicate clearly and actively listen to product and engineering stakeholders, and your team, to drive sustainable quality improvements and guide individuals towards meaningful growth. Leading the Infrastructure Design team, you will take responsibility for the products that help to build cloud experiences and software distribution mechanisms, and you will help to evolve the security of how software is packaged and delivered. Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region What the role entails • 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 clear Job description: Home based - EMEA
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About the employer
Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and develops open-source technology used across cloud, enterprise, IoT and AI environments.
This opportunity was checked against a direct Canonical careers listing.
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How this listing was checked
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- Canonical
- Source checked
- September 8, 2026
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- Work setup and location
- Remote · Home based - Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Who can apply
- Africa eligible · wider Europe, Middle East and Africa region · Confirmed by source
- Pay
- Not stated by employer
- Deadline
- Not stated by employer
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