UX Designer - Infrastructure

Canonical; South Africa; On-site; USD 1,729 - 4,035; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering tech firm as a UX Designer, where you'll transform complex open-source software into intuitive products. This remote role allows you to collaborate with exceptional engineering teams, enhancing the user experience of Ubuntu and its community. You'll focus on usability, accessibility, and design standards while engaging in continuous learning. If you're passionate about user experience and eager to tackle complex design challenges, this position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of technology in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from high school and university.
• Knowledge and passion for user experience, technology, and design.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineering teams to improve the delivery of Ubuntu.
• Implement industry best practices for user experience design.

Skills

User Experience Design

Communication Skills

User Research

Usability and Accessibility

Continuous Learning

Education

Bachelor’s in User Experience, Design, or STEM

High School Diploma

Job description

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring a UX Designer for Infrastructure and Developer Experience

The role of a UX Designer at Canonical

Our design team is on a mission to turn complex, open-source software into efficient, intuitive products that can change how complex systems are built and what open source is capable of the face of enterprise IT. We are looking for an exceptional user experience designer, who shares our passion.

This role sits in the design team reporting to one of the Infrastructure and Developer Experience UX design managers.

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

The role entails

As a UX Designer for Infrastructure and Developer Experience, you will work with the exceptional engineering teams at Canonical and have a vital role in improving what we deliver to the success of Ubuntu, our partners, customers and the larger Ubuntu community. We build tools that enable everyone to build their own cloud experiences (MAAS, LXD, MicroCloud and Canonical k8s), and we put together the Developer Experience on your Ubuntu Desktop. Your job is to make sure we implement industry best practices, and push the limits of what is possible.

Clear, stylish presentation that aids the user experience of our products is how we raise the bar and reach the widest audience. Real content and information will be at the core of the designs you produce. You know the ins and outs of design and UX heuristics, and you care deeply about usability, accessibility and web standards. You should have agency, company or freelance design experience.

What we are looking for in you

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Bachelor’s or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
• 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

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.

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 its 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