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UX Designer - Design systems
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted today
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Performance‑driven annual bonus.
- Requires strong UX/product design experience with a focus on design systems.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
- Must be able to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.
- Remote work location – EMEA region.
- Expertise required in Figma, Storybook and design token workflows.
Role overview
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is hiring a UX Designer for its Design System Team. Reporting to Design Systems Management, the remote‑based role in the EMEA region will help define, evolve, and champion a consistent, scalable, and accessible design system that underpins Canonical’s open‑source products and services.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve Canonical’s design system, ensuring measurable adoption, consistency, scalability and accessibility across products.
- Collaborate with designers, engineers and stakeholders to translate user needs and brand principles into reusable components, patterns and guidelines.
- Champion design system best practices, advocate for cohesive user experience, and provide documentation and support for cross‑functional teams.
- Design and document UI components, design tokens and interaction patterns.
- Ensure timely and efficient delivery of the roadmap.
- Enable alignment on design system usage and governance across teams.
- Advocate for accessibility, performance, and scalability in design system decisions and iterate based on data and technological advancements.
- Stay ahead of industry trends, ensuring innovation while balancing system coherence and performance.
- Commit to transparent project delivery and own team deadlines.
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 a 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 a 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.
- Location: remote work in the EMEA region.
Benefits
- Performance‑driven annual bonus or commission.
- Annual compensation review.
- Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly in‑person team sprints.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
- 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.
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to global enterprise and technology markets.
- The company is founder‑led, profitable and growing, with 1,200+ 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.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer fostering a workplace free from discrimination.
- Original posting source: Himalayas.