UX Designer - Design systems

UX Designer - Design systems |
Canonical

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. We are hiring a UX designer for our Design System Team to help us build and evolve a design system that scales across our products.

Location: Remote in the EMEA region.

• 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 a 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 while balancing innovation with system coherence and performance.

• Relevant experience in UX/product design with a strong focus on design systems in complex environments.
• A portfolio demonstrating expertise in design systems, 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.
• 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, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination.

Entry level

Full‑time

• Design, Art/Creative, Information Technology
• Software Development (Industry)