UX Designer - Design systems

UX Designer - Design systems

Join us at Canonical, a leading provider of open source software, to join our Design System Team. This role is based remotely in the EMEA region.

Canonical is a pioneer in open‑source solutions, with Ubuntu as its flagship operating system. We empower our customers with cutting‑edge cloud, AI, and IoT technologies. The Design System UX Designer ensures a consistent, scalable, and accessible design experience across our products.

• Build and evolve Canonical’s design system, ensuring measurable adoption, consistency, scalability and accessibility across 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, and provide documentation and support for cross‑functional teams.
• Design and document UI components, design tokens and interaction patterns.
• Deliver the roadmap on time and efficiently.
• Enable alignment on design system usage and governance across teams.
• Advocate for accessibility, performance, and scalability in design system decisions and iterate based on data and technology 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 expertise in component libraries, documentation and handling complex environments.
• Exceptional educational achievements in design or a 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 a systemic approach to solving design challenges.
• Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines.
• A passion for balancing consistency and innovation.
• Willingness to travel up to four 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.

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.