UX Designer - Design systems

UX Designer – Design Systems at Canonical

Canonical is a leading open‑source software and operating‑systems provider. We are hiring a UX Designer for our Design System Team.

Location: Remote (EMEA)

Role Overview: You will play a key role making open source software available to the world by defining, evolving, and advocating for a consistent use of a design system that scales across our products.

• Build and evolve Canonical's design system, ensuring measurable adoption, consistency, scalability, and accessibility across our 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 design, 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, iterating based on data and technological advancements
• Stay ahead of industry trends, ensuring innovation while maintaining system coherence and performance

• 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 systematic 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

• 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 is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open‑source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

Entry level

Full‑time

Design, Art/Creative, Information Technology

Software Development