UX Designer - Design systems

July 5

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Canonical

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Open Source • Cloud • AI

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open-source operating system, which provides fast, modern, and secure Linux solutions for desktops, servers, and cloud environments. They offer a comprehensive set of products and services, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, cloud solutions such as OpenStack, and tools for managing containerized applications with Kubernetes. Canonical focuses on making open-source technology reliable and accessible across various industries, from IoT and AI to enterprise infrastructure.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

📋 Description

• 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 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

🎯 Requirements

• Relevant experience in UX/product design, with a strong focus on design systems in complex environments • A 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 of 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 • Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines • A passion for balancing consistency and innovation • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

🏖️ Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year • Annual compensation review • Recognition rewards • Annual holiday leave • Maternity and paternity leave • Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues • Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events