Senior UX Designer

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Job summary

Join a pioneering tech firm as a Senior UX Designer, where your creativity and expertise will shape the future of open-source software. In this exciting role, you will collaborate with a diverse team to enhance user experiences and drive product innovation. You'll engage with the open-source community, influence design systems, and ensure our products meet the highest standards. This innovative company values continuous learning and offers a supportive environment where your contributions will make a significant impact. If you are passionate about design and technology, this is the perfect opportunity to elevate your career in a remote-first setting.

Benefits

Learning and Development

Annual Compensation Review

Recognition Rewards

Annual Leave

Priority Pass for Travel

Qualifications

• Excellent academic results in User Experience or related fields.
• Strong knowledge and passion for technology and design.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and engineers on product design.
• Research new features with the open source community.

Skills

User Experience Design

Communication Skills

User Research Practices

Design Systems

Continuous Learning

Education

Bachelor's in User Experience, Design, or STEM

Job description

The role of a Senior UX Designer at Canonical

With Ubuntu, Canonical created the first Linux for human beings. Our design team is on a mission to turn complex, open-source software into intuitive products that can change the face of enterprise IT. We are looking for an exceptional senior user experience designer, who shares our passion.

Our mission is to make enterprise-grade open source software, applications and services available to people everywhere. We create world-renowned software, impacting the lives of millions of engineers, enterprises, entrepreneurs and consumers every day. Our multi-disciplinary web design and production team includes visual designers, UX designers, front-end and back-end developers to bring exciting web projects to life. We help and learn from each other and strive to improve our work and processes.

This role sits in the design team reporting to one of the UX managers.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

What will your day look like

• Work with the open source community and Canonical customers to research new features and improvements
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to shape the future of Canonical products
• Evolve and evangelise design systems that drive consistency and efficiency
• Provide direction to the design team, keeping our efforts aligned with product strategy and best practices
• Interact with the open source community to encourage adoption of features and designs

UX designers should be excellent communicators who are at ease working with a complex mix of engineers, designers and executives. They represent us at cross-functional company meetings and must present their design position with clarity and precision. They should be confident and excited to take on complex design challenges. They should also be able to connect their design leadership to the strategic vision of the company.

What we are looking for in you

• Excellent academic results at school and university
• Bachelor's or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM
• Knowledge and passion for user experience, technology and design
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific
• Drive to finish work and celebrate success
• Confidence in user research practices
• Engagement with the latest design research and innovation

What we offer

• An opportunity to shape a company and products
• Influence in the open source community
• An inclusive work environment
• Learning and development
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is 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 on a daily basis. 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.

Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Work at Canonical is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.

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.