Senior UX Designer

Canonical; Nürnberg; Remote; USD 50.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Join a pioneering company in open source software as a Senior UX Designer. This remote role offers the opportunity to lead a talented design team, transforming complex software into intuitive products. You'll collaborate with engineers and product managers, ensuring that design efforts align with strategic goals. With a commitment to continuous learning and innovation, you'll drive the design forward while enjoying a distributed work environment. The company values diversity and offers a competitive compensation package, including a learning budget and opportunities for international travel. Embrace the future of work and advance your career with us.

Leistungen

Annual learning and development budget of USD 2,000

Biannual in-person team sprints

Recognition rewards

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel upgrades for company events

Opportunities to travel and meet colleagues

Qualifikationen

• Exceptional academic record from high school and university.
• Passion and knowledge of user experience, technology, and design.

Aufgaben

• Lead the design team, ensuring alignment with product strategy.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers on new features.

Kenntnisse

User Experience Design

User Research

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Design Systems Development

Ausbildung

Bachelor's in User Experience or Design

High School Diploma

Jobbeschreibung

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders across various sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with over 1200 colleagues in more than 75 countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times annually in person, in interesting locations worldwide, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

We are hiring a Senior UX Designer to lead the design team, responsible for team performance, delivery, quality, and completeness. You will deliver outstanding UX experiences and generate ideas for team improvement. Our design team aims to transform complex, open-source software into efficient, intuitive products that can revolutionize enterprise IT. We seek an exceptional user experience designer who shares our passion.

This role reports to a UX design manager and is based remotely in the EMEA region.

The role entails

1. Working with the open source community and Canonical customers to research new features and improvements.
2. Collaborating with product managers and engineers to shape the future of Canonical products.
3. Providing direction to the design team, ensuring efforts align with product strategy and best practices.
4. Developing and evangelizing design systems to promote consistency and efficiency.
5. Addressing system-level problems with interconnected constraints.
6. Leading end-to-end design processes for various challenges.
7. Driving Canonical design forward through a dedicated working group.

What we are looking for in you

1. Exceptional academic record from high school and university.
2. Bachelor's or equivalent in User Experience, Design, STEM, or a compelling alternative narrative.
3. Passion and knowledge of user experience, technology, and design.
4. Commitment to continuous learning, curiosity, flexibility, and a scientific approach.
5. Result-oriented with a drive to complete work and celebrate success.
6. Confidence in user research practices.
7. Engagement with current design research and innovation.
8. Ability to travel internationally twice a year for up to two weeks for company events.

UX designers should be excellent communicators, comfortable working with engineers, designers, and executives. They must articulate their design positions clearly, tackle complex challenges confidently, and connect their leadership to the company's strategic vision.

What we offer you

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping worldwide compensation, with annual reviews. Benefits include:

• Distributed work environment with biannual in-person team sprints.
• USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards, holiday leave, maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Opportunities to travel and meet colleagues in new locations.
• Travel upgrades and Priority Pass for long-haul company events.

About Canonical

Canonical pioneers open source innovation, publishing Ubuntu, a key platform for AI, IoT, and cloud. We recruit globally, uphold high standards, and expect excellence. Since 2004, most colleagues work from home, embracing the future of work. Join us to challenge yourself, learn new skills, and advance your career.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We promote a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity enhances our environment and products. We consider all applications fairly, regardless of identity.