UX Designer - Design systems

Canonical; Emea; Remote; IDR 1,165,307,141 - 1,664,724,488; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Distributed work environment

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform

Travel opportunities for team events

Job summary

A leading open-source software provider is hiring a UX designer for their Design System Team. This remote role involves building and evolving a design system, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring design consistency across products. Candidates should have relevant UX experience, a strong portfolio in design systems, and expertise in tools like Figma and Storybook.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio in design systems including component libraries.
• Proven ability to apply design processes.
• Willingness to travel for internal events.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Canonical's design system.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Document UI components and design patterns.

Skills

UX/product design experience with design systems

Expertise in Figma

Attention to detail

Strong communication skills

Ability to collaborate with engineers

Education

Educational achievements in design or related behavioral science

Tools

Storybook

Job description

Overview

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 enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. 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.

The Design System UX designer defines, evolves and advocates for a consistent use of design system that scales across our products. This role sits in the design system team reporting to Design Systems Management. Location: remote in the EMEA region.

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

Qualifications

• 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
• Educational achievements in design or 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
• Attention to detail and systemic approach to solving complex design challenges
• Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines
• 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

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

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.