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Full-time UX Designer - Design systems

Canonical design system — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:35:35 +0000

Organization: Canonical design system

Status: searching

Compensation: paid

Role: Design system

Please apply through: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4262272853/

We are hiring a UX designer for our Design System Team.

You will play a key role making open source software available to the world. Our Design function ensures the experience of the software and infrastructure we build is true to our intentions, and delivers the tools our community and customers need. The Design System UX designer makes that possible by defining, evolving and advocating for a consistent use of design system that scales across our products.

This role sits in the design system team reporting to Design Systems Management

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

The role entails

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 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

What we are looking for in you

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/Penpot, 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

How to Apply:

hayden.chambers@canonical.com
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4262272853/

Senior UX Designer at Ubuntu / Canonical

Ubuntu — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:06:05 +0000

Organization: Ubuntu

Status: filled

Compensation: paid

Role: UX Design

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container, cloud, internet of things and hyperscale computing, central to modern tech from development to production.

Our design team, centred in Europe, has specialists in visual and UX design, and front and back end development. We collaborate, as product design squads, with global distributed development engineering teams.

We count on our team to bring together deep design-thinking, technical domain knowledge, with great instincts, through a rigorous process – to shape products for a very demanding audience. You’ll fit in if you have equal appetites for design, innovation and technology.

What you will be doing

You will be part of a team working on web applications for enterprise cloud services, IoT and embedded devices, bringing exciting new projects to life and improving existing ones.

You will be leading your product-specific projects, driving design and delivery against agreed goals and working with designers, product management and engineering to deliver on the strategic vision for Canonical.
You will plan and conduct research with target users and stakeholders from the business to identify and document users’ needs and requirements as well as business requirements and KPIs
You will manage incoming requests for work that affects you and needs to be considered (e.g. project briefs) and balance and prioritise the various projects’ requirements. In your day to day you are defining the scope, milestones and deliverables for any given iteration.
You apply agile/lean project management methodologies. You will be the person resolving any blockers on your projects, through clear communication with project management and actively seeking help from team members, your manager and others.
You will liaise with relevant stakeholders and engineers to achieve company goals, making time to talk via messaging applications, setting up and attending regular meetings, reviewing work with them in advance, sharing progress and seeking their input to achieve consensus and drive progress.
We try as much as we can to share our experiences and knowledge within the team and to the community through informal presentations, the design blog and other events.
Driving the adoption of Vanilla, our front end framework. You will be encouraging teammates to use or iterate existing patterns or when desired to design new patterns that are used across Canonical products and available as an open source resource.

How to Apply:

elio.qoshi@canonical.com
GreenHouse application link: https://grnh.se/fcbd33bb1us