Canonical is hiring a
Design Director

Summary

The Design Director at Canonical will lead the Brand & Marketing Design team, ensuring the experience of using software aligns with the company's intentions. The role involves managing delivery teams, improving operational workflows, coordinating with stakeholders, and engaging the open source community. This position is based remotely in the EMEA region.

Requirements

• A portfolio demonstrating quality in UI design, especially visually
• Exceptional educational achievements in design or related behavioral science discipline
• Full lifecycle experience from user needs discovery through validation and implementation guidance
• Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines
• Experience of managing a team that interacts with technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with quantitative optimisation approaches

Responsibilities

• Reviewing the work of your design team for quality
• Working with individual designers to support their professional growth
• Continuously improving operational workflows, including production outsourcing and collaboration with Web Engineering
• Working with stakeholders, especially Marketing and our Head of Brand, to clearly define and validate outcomes
• Evolving design systems and guidelines to drive consistent quality and improve efficiency
• Coordinating with the rest of design leadership to mature our collective practice
• Bringing your team and others together to share their work and strengthen culture
• Engaging the open source community to learn and make the value of our work legible

Preferred Qualifications

A passion for balancing consistency and innovation

Benefits

• Fully remote working environment
• 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