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UX Designer - Design systems
Canonical
- Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Manchester, England, United Kingdom
About
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.
Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
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.
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.
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.
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Languages
- English
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