Design Manager (Visual) - Italy

Canonical Ltd.; Toscana; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Canonical is 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.

You will evolve existing guidelines, ensure consistency across touchpoints, and lead projects ranging from marketing assets to data visualization, print and UI design. Collaboration with design systems and sites teams is key.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of existing visual design guidelines to ensure consistency across touchpoints.
• Direct a range of projects including marketing campaign assets, data visualization, print and UI design.
• Collaborate closely with the design systems and sites teams, influencing the UI of all digital experiences.
• Take on stretch projects that extend beyond the core scope of the role.

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