CCanto is hiringPrincipal Product Designer

Build Your Career at Canto – Where Innovation Meets Impact 

At Canto, we’re not just transforming digital asset management—we’re creating a workplace where talented individuals can thrive. As a leader in DAM, we empower businesses to organize, manage, and distribute their digital assets seamlessly. With 4,000+ customers worldwide, our success is driven by passionate people who bring creativity, collaboration, and innovation to everything they do.

Joining Canto means becoming part of a dynamic team where your contributions truly matter.

We foster a culture of continuous learning, open communication, and hands-on impact. Here, you'll have the opportunity to take on exciting challenges, develop your skills, and grow alongside a company that’s making waves in the industry. We believe in supporting our team members, valuing fresh ideas, and celebrating every success together.

If you're looking for a career where you can make a difference, expand your expertise, and be part of a global community, Canto is the place for you. We’re growing fast and looking for driven individuals who are ready to shape the future with us. Come build something great at Canto!

Role Title: Principal Product Designer  

Location: Cork, Ireland Hybrid

Role Overview:  

As a Principal Product Designer at Canto, you will play a key role in our platform design transformation, advancing our design systems, and our accessibility programs. You will partner closely with our Design team and Product and Engineering leadership across our US and Ireland teams to help shape the product’s future direction while continuing to be deeply hands-on in craft and execution. 
 
This is a collaborative, high-trust role - ideal for someone who leads through influence, clarity, and example. 

What You will be Doing 

• Apply and advocate systems thinking - designing holistically across the Canto ecosystem and helping others see the bigger picture. 

• Help define and evolve design system strategy and governance, ensuring quality, accessibility, and scalability. 

• Collaborate with global design, engineering and product leaders to help set and refine the North Star design vision for our platform - balancing contextual and conversational AI in an evolving agentic experience model. 

• Lead modernisation initiatives such as UI redesigns, accessibility upgrades (WCAG 2.2 AA), internationalization, and post-acquisitions for UX unification. 

• Mentor Designers, cultivating high standards of craft, operations and systems literacy. 

• Partner with engineering and product leadership designing AI-powered features such as workflows, actions, and automation. 

• Explore and operationalise AI-assisted design workflows (e.g., Claude, Figma Make, Lovable, Cursor) to accelerate user feedback, iteration, experimentation and speed to customer outcomes. 

• Craft and communicate design strategy and systems rationale clearly across teams and executive leadership, aligning stakeholders, elevating UX priorities and understanding. 

 Qualifications & experiences required to be successful in this role: 

• 10+ years designing complex SaaS or platform products. 

• Deep expertise in systems design, information architecture, and cross-product coherence. 

• Proven leadership in design system creation, scaling, and governance & leading accessibility programs (AA or AAA) – with case study and/or portfolio examples. 

• Experience designing Agentic UX, AI actions, workflows or automation design. 

• Portfolio that demonstrates exceptional visual design and UI craft - creating clean, modern, intuitive UIs that bring delight, clarity, and cohesiveness across flows; raising the visual standard across product via polished, thoughtful aesthetics. 

• Practical understanding of AI-driven design tooling and workflows. 

• Strong mentorship ability - respected for elevating and unifying others rather than commanding direction. 

• Experience collaborating across globally distributed teams. 

• Clear communicator who builds alignment across all levels, from executive leadership to technical and non-technical stakeholders, through transparency, collaboration and shared intent. 

Nice to Have 

• Familiarity with the DAM or Martech ecosystem. 

• Thought leadership and published work in systems design, accessibility, design systems or agentic UX design. 

• Experience or interest in shipping front-end code directly to production using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) in collaboration with engineering teams. 

Why Canto is the Place to Be!

Ignite Your Potential – Join a fast-growing company where innovation and agility fuel success.

Make an Impact – Your ideas and efforts directly shape our future—every contribution matters.

Learn, Grow, Thrive – Gain real-world experience and develop new skills as we scale.

Stronger Together – Be part of a close-knit, supportive team that values collaboration and camaraderie.

Your Voice Matters – We foster open communication and transparency so every idea is heard.

Turn Challenges into Triumphs – Solve meaningful problems with creativity and confidence.

Balance that Works for You – We believe success comes from a healthy work-life harmony.

Endless Growth Potential – As we rise, so do you. Step into new opportunities and grow with us.

A Global Perspective – Work alongside diverse, talented colleagues and broaden your horizons.

Come be part of something exciting—your future starts here!

Canto is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.