The role
Canonical needs a hands-on Design Manager to lead its visual designers on brand, campaign, data visualization and site work. You'll set direction, keep quality high and still design when the work calls for it.
What you'll do
- Lead a team of visual designers on brand and site work
- Review work critically and give direct, constructive feedback
- Design hands-on when capacity or complexity requires it
- Evolve design systems and guidelines with the Design Systems team
- Improve production workflows and define outcomes with stakeholders
What they're looking for
- Portfolio showing excellence in leading visual design process and execution
- Experience managing complex projects and designers while still designing
- Advanced visual design skills: typography, layout, colour, systems
- Care for usability and accessibility, with openness to critique
- Professional written and spoken English
The company
Canonical
Remote-first open source software company
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and provides open source software to enterprise and technology markets. It's profitable and founder-led, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries, and has been remote-first since 2004.
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