Design Manager, Visual

Job not on LinkedIn

🔥 8 minutes ago

🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

Where this job comes from

Posted on Canonical's careers page, not through a job board

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Canonical

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Open Source • Cloud • Artificial Intelligence

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open-source operating system, which provides fast, modern, and secure Linux solutions for desktops, servers, and cloud environments. They offer a comprehensive set of products and services, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, cloud solutions such as OpenStack, and tools for managing containerized applications with Kubernetes. Canonical focuses on making open-source technology reliable and accessible across various industries, from IoT and AI to enterprise infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Lead and contribute to Canonical’s Visual Design practice supporting brand and site experiences • Apply and evolve existing guidelines, ensuring consistency across touchpoints • Lead projects involving marketing campaign assets, data visualization, print, and UI design • Collaborate with the design systems and sites teams, influencing the UI of digital experiences • Drive cross-department collaboration through stretch projects • Lead a team of visual designers responsible for brand and site-related work • Drive innovation, set direction, maintain quality, and ensure delivery • Support continuous professional growth of the visual design team • Craft exceptional visual solutions and set the creative vision • Review work critically and constructively through direct feedback • Contribute hands-on design work when capacity or complexity requires it • Support individual designers’ professional growth • Oversee and improve operational workflows and production processes • Work with Marketing, Web Engineering, and the Design Systems Director to define and validate outcomes • Evolve design systems and guidelines to improve consistency, quality, and efficiency • Coordinate with design leadership to mature the collective practice • Bring teams together to share work and strengthen culture • Communicate the value of design across Canonical and the open source community

🎯 Requirements

• A portfolio demonstrating excellence in leading design process and execution (especially visually) in diverse organisations • Experience managing complex projects and a team of designers while remaining actively involved in design work • Advanced knowledge of visual design principles (typography, layout, colour, systems) demonstrating broad experience • Strong processes understanding and ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, and limited resources with the ability to switch modes • A clear point of view, balanced with openness to critique and feedback with deep care for usability and accessibility • Commitment to skills development and mentorship • A demonstrable passion for technology • Thoughtful and self-motivated while being result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments • Exceptional educational achievement in design, or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path • Professional written and spoken English • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events up to two weeks long

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • Certain roles may be eligible for annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation

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