Role Overview

We are hiring a UX designer for our Design System Team. You will play a key role making open source software available to the world. Our Design function ensures the experience of the software and infrastructure we build is true to our intentions, and delivers the tools our community and customers need.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

What We Offer Colleagues

• 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.