Ux Designer - Design Systems

Canonical Ltd.; Lazio; Remote; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Canonical, a remote-first technology company, is seeking a UX Designer for the Design Systems team. You will help make open source software accessible worldwide and work with a globally distributed team to align on strategy and execution.

You will design and document UI components, design tokens, and interaction patterns, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and scalability across Canonical products. Collaboration with designers, engineers, and stakeholders will translate user needs into

Job description

As a UX Designer in the Design Systems team at Canonical, you will play a key role in 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. This role is crucial for defining, evolving, and advocating for the consistent use of our design system to ensure it scales across all our products. This is a unique opportunity to join a global, remote-first company that is a pioneer of distributed collaboration. You will be part of a team that meets in person two to four times a year in interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution. Your role will entail:

• 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 a cohesive user experience, and providing documentation and support for cross-functional teams.
• Designing and documenting UI components, design tokens, and interaction patterns.
• Ensuring the timely and efficient delivery of the roadmap.
• Advocating for accessibility, performance, and scalability in design system decisions.