Design Manager (Visual) - Italy

Canonical Ltd.; Sicilia; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a Design Manager to lead and contribute to our Visual Design practice, supporting brand and site experiences. This hands-on leadership role requires delivering across campaigns, data visualization, print, and UI design while guiding a team and collaborating with design systems and sites teams.

You will influence the UI of digital experiences and have opportunities to engage in stretch projects that extend beyond the core scope.

Qualifications

• Hands-on design leader with experience managing design teams and delivering design across multiple channels.
• Strong delivery ownership and strategic thinking to guide brand and site experiences.
• Experience collaborating with design systems and sites teams to unify UI across digital touchpoints.
• Capability to work on marketing assets, data visualization, print and UI design projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of designers, balancing people management with hands-on design work.
• Shape and evolve Canonical's visual design language across brand and product experiences.
• Collaborate with design systems and sites teams to ensure consistent, high-quality UI.
• Drive projects from concept to delivery, including campaigns, data visuals, print and web assets.

Skills

Design leadership

People management

UI design

Brand consistency

Data visualization

Print design

Collaboration

Job description

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 Design Manager to lead and contribute to our Visual Design practice supporting brand and site experiences. This is a hands-on leadership role suited to experienced designers who excel in people management, delivery ownership and strategic thinking.

The role entails

Your work will entail the application and evolution of existing guidelines, ensuring consistency across touchpoints. You will lead a variety of projects ranging from marketing campaign assets, data visualization, print and UI design related projects. You will be collaborating closely with the design systems and the sites team, influencing the UI of all our digital experiences. You will have opportunities to get involved in various stretch projects that go beyond the