UX Designer - Developer experience
Job description
UX Designer for Developer Experience at Canonical, working with engineering teams to improve how software is built and distributed. The role sits in the design team, reporting to the Developer Experience design manager, and is based remotely in the EMEA region.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA region
What you'll do
- Designing and building tools that enable everyone to build, package and maintain their own software, with a focus on Open Source
- Collaborating with product managers and engineers to shape the future of developer experience
- Supporting deeply complex products with the process of design and UX heuristics
- Working to evolve and evangelise design systems that drive consistency and efficiency
- Understanding the broader scope of your work and its numerous interconnected constraints
- Supporting one of our working groups to enable Canonical design's horizontal efforts
What we're looking for
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Bachelor's or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Knowledge and passion for user experience, technology and design
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific
- Result-oriented with a drive to finish work and celebrate success
- Confidence in user research practices
- Engagement with the latest design research and innovation
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
- Excellent communicator at ease working with a complex mix of engineers, designers and executives
- Ability to present design position with clarity and precision
- Confident and excited to take on complex design challenges
- Able to connect design leadership to the strategic vision of the company
Your team
Design team
The design team is on a mission to turn complex, open-source software into efficient, intuitive products that can change how complex systems are built and what open source is capable of for enterprise IT.
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 leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Its platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
Mission
To change the world of software as the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office based roles
- Founder led and profitable
- Most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Excellence
- Continuous learning and improvement
- Curious, flexible, scientific
- Result-oriented
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background