Senior UX Designer

Job Description

Canonical is seeking a Senior UX Designer to be a key driver within their design team. The role involves contributing to the team's overall performance, ensuring quality, and delivering comprehensive design solutions. Canonical is a leading provider of open source software, including the Ubuntu platform and this role sits in the design team reporting to one of the UX design managers.

The Senior UX Designer will collaborate with the open source community and Canonical's customers on feature research and improvements. They will partner with product managers and engineers to influence Canonical's product vision. The person will be responsible for providing direction to the design team, ensuring alignment with product strategy and best practices. The role involves systems-level problem-solving while working to ensure design consistency and efficiency.

Canonical offers a distributed work environment, personal learning and development budget, annual compensation review, recognition rewards, annual holiday leave, and more.

• Working with the open source community and Canonical customers to research new features and improvements
• Collaborating with product managers and engineers to shape the future of Canonical products
• Providing direction to the design team, keeping our efforts aligned with product strategy and best practices
• Working to evolve and evangelise design systems that drive consistency and efficiency
• Tackling systems-level problems with numerous interconnected constraints
• Spearheading end-to-end design processes for challenges of various scales
• Shaping one of our working groups to drive Canonical design forward horizontally

Requirements:

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• 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 - curious, flexible, 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

What Canonical Offers:

• 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events