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    UX Designer - Design systems

    Canonical
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    Remote
    Mid Level
    Full Time
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    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

    What You'll Do

    • •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 and balancing it with system coherence and performance

    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

    About Canonical

    Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, delivers trusted open source for everyone and provides security, support and services to enterprises.

    London, UK
    1000 - 5000
    Developer Tools