UX Designer - Design systems
Join us at Canonical, a leading provider of open source software, to join our Design System Team. This role is based remotely in the EMEA region.
Canonical is a pioneer in open‑source solutions, with Ubuntu as its flagship operating system. We empower our customers with cutting‑edge cloud, AI, and IoT technologies. The Design System UX Designer ensures a consistent, scalable, and accessible design experience across our products.
Responsibilities
* Build and evolve Canonical’s design system, ensuring measurable adoption, consistency, scalability and accessibility across products.
* Collaborate with designers, engineers and stakeholders to translate user needs and brand principles into reusable components, patterns and guidelines.
* Champion design system best practices, advocate for cohesive user experience and design, and provide documentation and support for cross‑functional teams.
* Design and document UI components, design tokens and interaction patterns.
* Deliver the roadmap on time and efficiently.
* Enable alignment on design system usage and governance across teams.
* Advocate for accessibility, performance, and scalability in design system decisions and iterate based on data and technology advancements.
* Stay ahead of industry trends, ensuring innovation while maintaining system coherence and performance.
Qualifications
* Relevant experience in UX/product design, with a strong focus on design systems in complex environments.
* A portfolio demonstrating expertise in component libraries, documentation and handling complex environments.
* Exceptional educational achievements in design or a related behavioral science discipline.
* Expertise in Figma, Storybook and design token workflows.
* Experience 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 a systemic approach to solving design challenges.
* Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines.
* A passion for balancing consistency and innovation.
* Willingness to travel up to four times a year for internal events.
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.
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.
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