Remote UX Designer — Design Systems & Tokens

Logoslabs; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget (USD 2,000 per year)

Annual compensation review

Distributed work environment

Maternity and paternity leave

Wellness platform

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a UX designer for the Design System Team to define and evolve a scalable design system across products. The role focuses on creating reusable components, tokens and guidelines, ensuring accessibility and performance while partnering with engineers and designers.

Based remotely in the EMEA region, you will contribute to documentation, governance, and best practices, travel up to four times a year for internal events, and shape a cohesive user experience across Canonical's

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in UX/product design, with a strong focus on design systems in complex environments.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong expertise in design systems, including component libraries, documentation and handling complex environments.
• Exceptional 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.
• Excellent attention to detail and systemic approach to solving complex design challenges.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Responsibilities

• Building and evolving Canonical’s design system, ensuring 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.

Skills

UX design

Design systems

Figma

Storybook

Design tokens

Documentation

Education

Design degree

Tools

Figma

Storybook

Design tokens

Job description

Canonical is hiring a UX designer for the Design System Team to define and evolve a scalable design system across products. The role focuses on creating reusable components, tokens and guidelines, ensuring accessibility and performance while partnering with engineers and designers.

Based remotely in the EMEA region, you will contribute to documentation, governance, and best practices, travel up to four times a year for internal events, and shape a cohesive user experience across Canonical's