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UX Designer - Infrastructure
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 day ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events
- Bachelor’s or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM required
Role overview
Canonical is hiring a UX Designer for Infrastructure to work with engineering teams on creating open-source tools for building clouds and managing compute clusters globally. The role involves turning complex software into intuitive products, collaborating with product managers and engineers, and supporting the evolution of design systems.
Responsibilities
- Building tools that enable everyone to build their own cloud experiences (MAAS, LXD, MicroCloud and Canonical k8s)
- Collaborating with product managers and engineers to shape the future of the Data Center: Self-sovereign Clouds
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- Excellent communication skills, at ease working with engineers, designers, and executives
- Ability to present design positions with clarity and precision
- Confidence and excitement to take on complex design challenges
- Ability to connect design leadership to the strategic vision of the company
Nice to have
- Excitement about building things and working with real hardware
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
Additional details
- Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.
- The role sits in the design team reporting to the Infrastructure design manager.
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
- The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
- Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.