UX Designer - Design systems
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Remote role based in the EMEA region
- Requires expertise in Figma, Storybook and design token workflows
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
- USD 2,000 annual personal learning and development budget
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission offered
- Reports to Design Systems Management
Role overview
Canonical, publisher of Ubuntu, is hiring a UX Designer for its Design System Team. The role involves building and evolving Canonical's design system, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring scalability, accessibility, and consistency across products. This remote position is based in the EMEA region and reports to Design Systems Management.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- 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
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Additional details
- 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
- This role sits in the design system team reporting to Design Systems Management
- Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide
- Canonical is proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination
- We are hiring a UX designer for our Design System Team