UX Designer - Developer experience
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
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Remote
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Job Description
A UX Designer for Developer Experience at Canonical is responsible for designing and building tools that enhance the software development process, focusing on open source projects, and collaborating with engineering teams to improve user experience and design systems for complex products.
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 broader design efforts within the organization
Requirements
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university or a compelling narrative about an alternative chosen path, with a Bachelor’s or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM
- Knowledge and passion for user experience, technology, and design
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement, demonstrated by curiosity, flexibility, and a scientific approach
- Result-oriented with a drive to finish work and celebrate success
- Confidence in user research practices and engagement with the latest design research and innovation
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events, with each trip 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 in designing and building tools that enable users to build, package, and maintain 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 evangelizing design systems that drive consistency and efficiency
- Understanding of the broader scope of work and interconnected constraints within design projects
- Ability to support cross-functional efforts within a horizontal design team
- Willingness and ability to work remotely in the EMEA region
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
Travel upgrades and Priority Pass for long-haul company events
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