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Seeff Group is Hiring: Design Manager (Primary Creative) (Cape Town)

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Are you a creative leader and brand custodian ready to define the visual identity of a leading property group? Seeff is looking for a highly skilled, hands-on Design Manager (Primary Creative) to lead our visual strategy across all channels. This permanent, Cape Town-based role is the primary creative force within our Marketing Department, driving visual excellence and brand consistency.

Salary: R40,000 to R50,000 per month (Dependent on experience)

Role Summary: The Creative Visionary

This role is responsible for the execution and stewardship of the Seeff brand’s visual identity, translating high-level marketing objectives into innovative, high-impact visual solutions. You will provide creative direction and hands-on design expertise, focusing on developing master assets and templates for digital, print, and multimedia use by the wider group and its licensees.

Key Responsibilities:

The role is divided into two phases, ensuring you master creative production before transitioning into broader leadership:

Phase 1: Creative Production & Brand Stewardship (Hands-On Design)

• Brand Authority: Act as the primary custodian of Seeff's visual integrity. In collaboration with the Strategic Marketing Manager, you will evolve and maintain comprehensive brand guidelines (CI, typography, colour, tone) for all platforms.
• Digital Design: Design and produce a full range of master digital collateral (social graphics, email templates, animated GIFs, web banners, infographics). Collaborate with the Technical Digital Marketer | UX/UI to design user-centric interfaces, prototypes, and wireframes for Seeff.com, optimizing all assets for fast load times.
• Print & Offline Design: Lead the design of master traditional marketing templates (brochures, flyers, national ads, billboards, signage). Ensure flawless pre-press production (CMYK, bleed, trim) for professional printing. Design internal corporate templates (presentations, stationery, business cards).
• Multimedia: Provide creative direction for video and multimedia content, including motion graphics, property showcases, and brand stories.
• Creative Workflow: Establish efficient creative workflows and manage a centralized library of design assets for internal teams and branches.

Phase 2: Growth into Creative Leadership & Team Enablement (Head of Design)

• Creative Direction: Lead the conceptualisation and development of major creative campaigns, defining the visual narrative and standards. Stay current on design trends, tools, and technologies.
• Training & Policy: Develop and implement clear design policies, templates, and best practices to empower local branches to create on-brand materials independently. Conduct workshops and webinars to train branch teams.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the National Marketing Manager, Head of Content, Technical Digital Marketer | UX/UI, and all branch teams.
• Essential Software: Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) for both digital and print work is mandatory.
• UX/UI & Prototyping: Proficiency in tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD for wireframing and UI design.
• Multimedia: Solid understanding of video editing and motion graphics software (e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects).
• Design Expertise:
• Web & Digital: Expert knowledge of responsive design principles, web optimization (sizing, compression), and web-safe design practices. HTML/CSS knowledge is highly advantageous.
• Print: Expert knowledge of print production processes, including pre-press, colour management (CMYK), and designing for all large and small formats.
• Conceptual & Leadership Skills: Proven ability to maintain a strong brand identity, strong conceptual thinking, excellent communication/presentation skills, and robust project management to handle multiple simultaneous deadlines.

If you are ready to be the core creative engine for a national brand, apply now!

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Equal Employment Opportunity statement: Seeff Properties is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.

Seeff Group is Hiring: Design Manager (Primary Creative) (Cape Town)

NB: Please use EASY APPLY. Do NOT reach out to Chairman or hiring team on LinkedIn as these applications will be ignored.

Are you a creative leader and brand custodian ready to define the visual identity of a leading property group?
Seeff is looking for a highly skilled, hands-on
Design Manager (Primary Creative)
to lead our visual strategy across all channels. This
permanent, Cape Town-based
role is the primary creative force within our Marketing Department, driving visual excellence and brand consistency.

Salary:
R40,000 to R50,000 per month (Dependent on experience)

Role Summary: The Creative Visionary

This role is responsible for the
execution and stewardship of the Seeff brand's visual identity
, translating high-level marketing objectives into innovative, high-impact visual solutions. You will provide creative direction and hands-on design expertise, focusing on developing
master assets and templates
for digital, print, and multimedia use by the wider group and its licensees.

Key Responsibilities:

The role is divided into two phases, ensuring you master creative production before transitioning into broader leadership:

Phase 1: Creative Production & Brand Stewardship (Hands-On Design)

• Brand Authority:
  Act as the
  primary custodian
  of Seeff's visual integrity. In collaboration with the Strategic Marketing Manager, you will
  evolve and maintain comprehensive brand guidelines
  (CI, typography, colour, tone) for all platforms.
• Digital Design:
  Design and produce a full range of master digital collateral (social graphics, email templates, animated GIFs, web banners, infographics).
  Collaborate with the Technical Digital Marketer | UX/UI
  to design user-centric interfaces, prototypes, and wireframes for
  
  , optimizing all assets for fast load times.
• Print & Offline Design:
  Lead the design of master traditional marketing templates (brochures, flyers, national ads, billboards, signage). Ensure
  flawless pre-press production
  (CMYK, bleed, trim) for professional printing. Design internal corporate templates (presentations, stationery, business cards).
• Multimedia:
  Provide creative direction for video and multimedia content, including motion graphics, property showcases, and brand stories.
• Creative Workflow:
  Establish efficient creative workflows and manage a
  centralized library of design assets
  for internal teams and branches.

Phase 2: Growth into Creative Leadership & Team Enablement (Head of Design)

• Creative Direction:
  Lead the conceptualisation and development of major creative campaigns, defining the visual narrative and standards. Stay current on
  design trends, tools, and technologies
  .
• Training & Policy:
  Develop and implement clear design policies, templates, and best practices
  to empower local branches to create on-brand materials independently. Conduct workshops and webinars to train branch teams.
• Collaboration:
  Work closely with the National Marketing Manager, Head of Content, Technical Digital Marketer | UX/UI, and all branch teams.

Required Skills & Proficiencies:

• Essential Software:
  Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
  (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) for both digital and print work is
  mandatory
  .
• UX/UI & Prototyping:
  Proficiency in tools like
  Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD
  for wireframing and UI design.
• Multimedia:
  Solid understanding of video editing and motion graphics software (e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects).
• Design Expertise:
• Web & Digital:
  Expert knowledge of
  responsive design principles
  , web optimization (sizing, compression), and web-safe design practices. HTML/CSS knowledge is highly advantageous.
• Print:
  Expert knowledge of
  print production processes
  , including pre-press, colour management (CMYK), and designing for all large and small formats.
• Conceptual & Leadership Skills:
  Proven ability to maintain a strong brand identity, strong conceptual thinking, excellent communication/presentation skills, and robust project management to handle multiple simultaneous deadlines.

If you are ready to be the core creative engine for a national brand, apply now

Job Purpose
Lead the design and concept development of new brands to support IWG's rapid global expansion. Responsible for designing centres that deliver exceptional customer experiences and generate positive commercial returns. The role combines strategic design thinking with operational execution to ensure every centre delivers exceptional customer experience and commercial impact. This role is pivotal in enabling scale through efficient, brand-consistent design delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable design standards and collateral across all 18 brands.
• Create centre designs that launch IWG's new brands.
• Develop concepts that enhance centres and brand differentiation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to accelerate centre roll-out.
• Support on design related queries from our partners and internal teams.
• Manage external agencies (where required) to develop our design proposition.

Experience / Required Skills

• Background in design, ideally with architectural experience.
• Proven ability to balance creativity with operational scalability.
• Strong commercial awareness to assess design impact on profitability and brand perception.
• Experience managing internal and external stakeholders.
• Skilled in cross-functional collaboration and communication.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent in English.
• Self-starter with a proactive mindset and a drive to challenge the status quo.

About The Company
IWG has been at the forefront of flexible working for over 35 years. With nearly 4,000 locations around the globe, spanning brands including Regus, Spaces, Signature and HQ, we have made it possible for businesses of all sizes to make the transition to hybrid working, empowering employees to work wherever and whenever is most convenient.

We help more than 8 million people and their businesses to work more productively, supported by a choice of professional, inspiring and collaborative workspaces, communities and services.

As the world's leading provider of hybrid work solutions, with four times the number of locations compared to its nearest competitor, IWG is already working with over 80% of the Fortune 500 and counts businesses including Amazon, Netflix, EY and Uber amongst its customers.

Companies of all sizes are shifting to flexible working to lower costs, improve employee retention and lower their carbon emissions. The flexible workspace is expected to grow by 600% by 2023, when 30% of all office space will be hybrid. We are growing our network faster than ever to keep up with demand from customers as we work towards our goal of reaching 30,000 centres.

Carbon Neutral Workplaces
IWG's purpose of helping everyone have a great day at work, while protecting people and the planet is at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to supply all of our customers worldwide with carbon neutral workplaces, and we have a strong climate action plan in place to help us achieve our objective of Net Zero emissions by 2040.

Leading Employer Award
IWG is proud to be the recipient of a Leading Employer Award UK ongoing since Awarded exclusively to the top 1% of employers, the accolade is testament to our diverse global workforce and the role everyone plays in bringing our purpose, culture and values to life, every single day.

Join us

Our Retail client based in Dubai is currently recruiting for a Kidswear Design Manager . If you are looking to make a move to the UAE, then this opportunity is for YOU!

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise the design-to-development lifecycle, from concept sketches and CADs to technical packs and sample approvals.
• Liaise with sourcing, vendors, and mills to ensure material, trim, and embellishment choices meet cost and quality benchmarks.
• Ensure all design and development activities are executed within budget, without compromising brand aesthetics or fit.
• Develop product and packaging material sourcing plans focused on cost optimization and efficiency.
• Research global fashion trends, kidswear-specific innovations, and customer preferences across kidswear markets.
• Analyze consumer behavior, competitive landscape, and market intelligence to inform collection direction.
• Attend trade shows, digital trend portals, and market visits to gather insights on new materials, techniques, and inspirations.
• Partner with Buying, Merchandising, Planning, Sourcing, and Technical teams to ensure cohesive seasonal ranges, on-time delivery, and commercial success.
• Present seasonal design direction and collection line-ups to leadership and business teams.
• Support Marketing and Visual Merchandising with product storytelling and launch inputs.
• Lead and mentor a multi-category design team, overseeing work planning, delegation, quality control, and creative alignment.
• Set KPAs and development goals for team members, driving high performance through feedback, coaching, and reviews.
• Foster a positive, creative, and innovative studio culture.
• Monitor team welfare and resolve escalations with leadership maturity and empathy.
• Own the design strategy for children's wear (014 yrs), aligning seasonal direction with business goals and customer insights.
• Define product architecture and creative vision across categories, ensuring clarity in silhouettes, color stories, fabrics, and trims.
• Ensure brand consistency and alignment with group aesthetic, values, and customer expectations.
• Provide recommendations on seasonal edits, line structure, and style innovations.

Personal Attributes and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design, Apparel Design, or related field.
• 8-10 years of experience in kidswear/apparel design, with at least 3 years in a managerial role overseeing multiple categories.
• Strong technical knowledge in garment construction, children's sizing, trims, fits, and materials.
• Understanding of private label retail, cost structures, and seasonal calendars.
• Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, PLM systems, and CAD tools.
• Proven leadership skills to manage teams, deadlines, and cross-functional collaborations.

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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 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
  
  

• Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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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 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
  
  

• Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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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 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
  
  

• Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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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 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
  
  

• Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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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 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
  
  

• Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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