UX Designer — Developer Experience (Remote, EMEA)

Higlobe, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed work environment

Personal learning and development

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Team Member Assistance Program & W

Opportunity to travel to new locations

Travel upgrades for long-haul events

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a UX Designer for Developer Experience to partner with exceptional engineering teams and improve how software is built and distributed worldwide. The role sits in the design team and reports to the Developer Experience design manager.

Location: remote in the EMEA region. The ideal candidate will design tools for open source packaging, collaborate across product and engineering, and help evolve Canonical design systems while traveling for company events as needed.

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high 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.
• Result-oriented with a drive to finish work and celebrate success.
• Confidence in user research practices.
• Engagement with the latest design research and innovation.
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building tools that enable everyone to build, package and maintain their own software, with a focus on Open Source.
• Collaborating with product managers and engineers to shape the future of developer experience.
• Supporting deeply complex products with the process of design and UX heuristics.
• Working to evolve and evangelise design systems that drive consistency and efficiency.
• Understanding the broader scope of your work and its numerous interconnected constraints.
• Supporting one of our working groups to enable Canonical design’s horizontal efforts.

Skills

User experience

Design

UX research

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in User Experience, Design, or STEM

Job description

Canonical is hiring a UX Designer for Developer Experience to partner with exceptional engineering teams and improve how software is built and distributed worldwide. The role sits in the design team and reports to the Developer Experience design manager.

Location: remote in the EMEA region. The ideal candidate will design tools for open source packaging, collaborate across product and engineering, and help evolve Canonical design systems while traveling for company events as needed.