UX Designer - Design Systems

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Responsibilities

• ▹Building and evolving Canonical's design system, ensuring measurable adoption, consistency, scalability and accessibility across 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 while balancing 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 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
• ▹Willingness to travel up to four times a year for internal events

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹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
• ▹Performance-driven annual bonus or commission in addition to base pay

About the company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and Ubuntu, widely used in enterprise cloud, data science, AI and IoT. The company has 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries, works in a distributed way with very few office-based roles, and is founder-led, profitable and growing.