Job Description
Canonical is seeking a UX Designer for Developer Experience to create intuitive tools and improve the software building and distribution process for open source projects, collaborating with engineering teams to enhance developer interactions and design systems in a remote, globally distributed environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build tools to enable users to build, package, and maintain open source software
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers to improve developer experience
- Support complex products through design processes and UX heuristics
- Evolve and promote design systems to ensure consistency and efficiency
- Contribute to and support Canonical's horizontal design efforts
Requirements
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university or a compelling narrative about an alternative chosen path in User Experience, Design, or STEM
- Knowledge and passion for user experience, technology and design
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement, being curious, flexible, and scientific in approach
- Result-oriented with a drive to finish work and celebrate success
- Confidence in user research practices
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
- Excellent communication skills, comfortable working with engineers, designers, and executives, and able to present design positions with clarity and precision
- Ability to connect design leadership to the strategic vision of the company
- Experience designing and building tools that enable users to build, package, and maintain their own software, with a focus on Open Source
- Experience collaborating with product managers and engineers to shape developer experience
- Experience supporting complex products through design and UX heuristics
- Experience evolving and evangelising design systems that drive consistency and efficiency
- Ability to understand and work within the broader scope of interconnected constraints in design projects
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is shaped by geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
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
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