UX Designer - Design systems
Job description
UX designer on Canonical's Design System Team, responsible for building and evolving the company's design system so it scales consistently and accessibly across products. The role is remote in the EMEA region and reports to Design Systems Management.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA region
What you'll do
- Building and evolving Canonical's design system, ensuring measurable adoption, consistency, scalability and accessibility across our products
- Collaborating with designers, engineers and stakeholders to translate user needs and brand principles into reusable components, patterns and guidelines
- Championing design system best practices, advocating for cohesive user experience and design, providing documentation and support for cross-functional teams
- Designing and documenting UI components, design tokens and interaction patterns
- Ensuring timely and efficient delivery of the roadmap
- Enabling alignment on design system usage and governance across teams
- Advocating for accessibility, performance, and scalability in design system decisions and iterating based on data and technological advancements
- Staying ahead of industry trends, ensuring innovation and balancing it with system coherence and performance
What we're looking for
- Relevant experience in UX/product design, with a strong focus on design systems in complex environments
- A portfolio demonstrating strong expertise in design systems, including component libraries, documentation and handling complex environments
- Exceptional educational achievements in design or related behavioral science discipline
- Expertise in Figma, Storybook and design token workflows
- Experience of collaborating with engineers and bridging design and code
- Proven ability to apply design process and clearly communicate and document design decisions
- Excellent attention to detail and systemic approach to solving complex design challenges
- Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines
- A passion for balancing consistency and innovation
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Your team
Design System Team
Sits within Canonical's Design function; the role reports to Design Systems Management.
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
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- 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
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with very few office based roles.
Mission
Making open source software available to the world; changing the world of software as the company that publishes Ubuntu.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004
- Publishes Ubuntu
What they value
- Excellence
- Fairness globally
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background