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CanonicalDesign Manager (Visual)
Canonical is seeking a visual design manager to lead its visual design practice, which covers brand design and website experiences. The role is a hands-on leadership…
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Canonical is seeking a visual design manager to lead its visual design practice, which covers brand design and website experiences. The role is a hands-on leadership position for a senior designer who is strong at managing people, owning delivery and thinking strategically. It is full-time and remote. The manager runs a group of visual designers who handle brand and site work across the company. Projects include marketing campaign assets, data…
Job Description
Canonical is seeking a visual design manager to lead its visual design practice, which covers brand design and website experiences. The role is a hands-on leadership position for a senior designer who is strong at managing people, owning delivery and thinking strategically. It is full-time and remote.
The manager runs a group of visual designers who handle brand and site work across the company. Projects include marketing campaign assets, data visualisation, print and interface design, plus stretch assignments that involve several departments. The role applies and extends existing guidelines, works alongside the design systems and sites groups, and influences the interface of the company's digital products.
Each day, the manager reviews design work with direct, constructive comments, produces design personally when the team needs extra capacity or the task is complex, supports individual designers as they grow, and refines production workflows. The manager partners with marketing, web engineering and the Design Systems Director to set and verify outcomes, improves design systems and guidelines, coordinates with other design leaders, and helps colleagues and the wider open source community see the value design brings.
The listing looks for a portfolio that shows leadership of design process and output in complex organisations, along with experience running intricate projects and a team while remaining involved in design. Advanced knowledge of typography, layout, colour and systems is expected, as is a defined creative viewpoint that stays open to critique. Care for usability and accessibility and a commitment to mentoring are important. Candidates need a strong design education or a credible alternative background. Internal events require travel: up to two weeks at a time, and up to four times annually.
Responsibilities
- Lead the group of visual designers who handle brand and site projects across Canonical
- Review work with specific, constructive feedback
- Produce design work personally when the team needs extra capacity or the task is complex
- Support the professional growth of each designer
- Improve operational and production workflows
- Evolve design systems and guidelines together with the design systems team
- Agree project outcomes with marketing and web engineering stakeholders, and with design systems leadership
Requirements
- A portfolio that proves strong leadership of design process and output within complex organisations
- Track record running intricate projects and leading designers while still producing design work
- Advanced knowledge of typography, layout, colour and systems
- Solid grasp of process, comfort with ambiguity and conflicting priorities, and the ability to change approach quickly
- A defined creative viewpoint that stays open to critique, plus real care for usability and accessibility
- Commitment to developing skills and mentoring others
- Professional written and spoken English
- Travel for internal events, lasting up to two weeks each, up to four times annually
Qualifications
- Strong education in design, or a credible non-traditional route
- Visible enthusiasm for technology
- Self-motivated and results-focused approach
Core Skills
Benefits
- Fully remote arrangement with two in-person team sprints a year
- Annual learning allowance of USD 2,000
- Yearly pay review and recognition awards
- Holiday leave each year and parental leave
- Employee assistance programme
- Chances to visit new locations and meet colleagues, plus Priority Pass lounge access
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Is the role remote?
Yes, the role is remote. Travel is required for internal events, up to four times a year and up to two weeks each time.
What kind of portfolio is needed?
The posting asks for a portfolio that shows leadership of design process and output in complex organisations.
What salary does the role offer?
The posting does not state a salary. It says base pay depends on location, experience, knowledge and skills, and that some roles may include bonuses or sales incentives.
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