UX Designer - Developer experience

Summary

Join Canonical, a leading open-source software provider, as a UX Designer for Developer Experience. You will design tools for building, packaging, and maintaining software, collaborating with product managers and engineers. This role involves supporting complex products with design and UX heuristics, evolving design systems, and understanding interconnected constraints. You will also support a working group and represent Canonical at cross-functional meetings. The position is remote in the EMEA region with twice-yearly international travel for company events. Canonical offers competitive compensation, a performance-driven bonus, and various benefits.

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
• UX designers should be excellent communicators who are at ease working with a complex mix of engineers, designers and executives
• They represent us at cross-functional company meetings and must present their design position with clarity and precision
• They should be confident and excited to take on complex design challenges
• They should also be able to connect their design leadership to the strategic vision of the company

Responsibilities

• Designing and building tools that enable everyone to build, package and maintain their own software, with a focus on Open Source
• Collaborating with product managers and engineers to shape the future of developer experience
• 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

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