Visual Designer
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Visual-DesignUI-UX-DesignGraphic-DesignBrand-DesignDesign-SystemsVisual-DesignerUI-Visual-DesignerDigital-Visual-DesignerVisual-Content-DesignerProduct-Visual-DesignerVisual-Communication-DesignerMarketing-Visual-DesignerDesignDesign SystemWeb AccessibilityEngineeringwrittendesignLinuxCloudandAIFulltime
Key highlights
- Remote role based in the EMEA region
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual holiday leave
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Role overview
Canonical, a leading provider of open source software and operating systems including Ubuntu, is hiring Visual Designers for Brand and Design Systems to join its central Design team. The role involves working with a diverse team to evolve brand guidelines and apply them across communications materials, UI design systems, and graphic design for digital products. The company values clear, stylish design rooted in usability, accessibility, and web standards, and seeks designers passionate about turning complex open-source software into intuitive products that impact millions of users daily.
Responsibilities
- Work on a variety of projects evolving brand guidelines and applying them to communications materials, UI design system, and graphic design for digital products
- Create clear, stylish presentation that aids user experience of products
- Produce designs centered around real content and information
- Apply knowledge of design and quality heuristics with care for usability, accessibility, and web standards
Requirements
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about alternative chosen path
- Agency, company, or freelance design experience
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long
Nice to have
- Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives
- Leadership and commitment to skills development and mentorship
- Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation
- Thoughtfulness and self-motivation
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Additional details
- 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
- 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
- Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals
- We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally
- Originally posted on Himalayas
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
- We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products
- Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration