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UX Designer - Developer experience

Canonical
Remote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
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Job Description

A UX Designer for Developer Experience at Canonical is responsible for designing and building tools that enhance software development, packaging, and maintenance processes, with a focus on open source, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive and efficient products that improve the overall developer experience.

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 Bachelor s or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
  • Knowledge and passion for user experience, technology and design
  • Commitment to continuous learning and improvement, being curious, flexible, and scientific
  • Result-oriented with a drive to finish work and celebrate success
  • Confidence in user research practices
  • Engagement with the latest design research and innovation
  • Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  • UX designers should be excellent communicators who are at ease working with a complex mix of engineers, designers and executives
  • Ability to present their design position with clarity and precision at cross-functional company meetings
  • Confidence and enthusiasm to take on complex design challenges
  • Ability to connect their design leadership to the strategic vision of the company

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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