UX Designer - Infrastructure
- Role
- Design
- Company size
- Enterprise
Open to Anywhere in EMEA. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
UX designer for Canonical’s infrastructure/open-source products, based remotely in EMEA. Needs strong UX/design fundamentals, user research confidence, technical orientation, and ability to work with engineers on complex cloud and hardware-related products. Must be able to travel internationally twice a year for up to two weeks.
Core skills
Design the Canonical way
At Canonical, design is driven by a clear purpose: enabling reliable, secure access to open source software for everyone.
Openness benefits everyone
Open processes and products create higher quality results and unparalleled freedom to use, modify, and distribute.
This is why we are exposing our practice. We open source our design systems, publish our design thoughts and invite open discussion. We default to open for Canonical products and support other efforts in the open design space.
We encourage you to use our resources for your own open source projects, participate in designing our products, or reach out to us if you're ready to collaborate.
What's on this site
We welcome designers and open source enthusiasts to use our design assets and learn from our methods.
You can download brand resources, use our design system or learn about our design strategy and decisions. You can also meet our team, browse open positions or find an open source project to get started with.
About our team
We're a team of cross-collaborative specialists. We work across disciplines and value learning from each other and our community.
We take pride in our diverse backgrounds, perspectives and skills, and our culture of openly building on each others' strengths.
We work with some of the smartest engineers in (and across) the world to deliver highly innovative technical solutions that run critical infrastructure everywhere. Our job is to make sure everyone can access this exciting technology.
We are entirely remote but travel at least twice a year to meet somewhere in the world and work together.
Join our team to create some of the most meaningful design work of your career.
Explore what we're up to
What you'll do
- Building tools that enable everyone to build their own cloud experiences (MAAS, LXD, MicroCloud and Canonical k8s)
- Collaborating with product managers and engineers to shape the future of the Data Center: Self-sovereign Clouds
- Supporting deeply complex products with the process of design and UX heuristics
- Working to evolve and evangelise design systems that drive consistency and efficiency
- Understanding the broader scope of your work and its numerous interconnected constraints
- Supporting one of our working groups to enable Canonical design’s horizontal efforts
What they require
- 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
- Excitement about building things and working with real hardware
- 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
- UX designers should be excellent communicators who are at ease working with a complex mix of engineers, designers and executives.
- They represent us at cross-functional company meetings and must present their design position with clarity and precision.
- They should be confident and excited to take on complex design challenges.
- They should also be able to connect their design leadership to the strategic vision of the company.
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
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
London-based software company, developer of Ubuntu
What people say about this company
3.6/ 5
- Employees appreciate the company's commitment to open-source software and its impact on the tech community.
- Many enjoy the flexibility of remote work and the work-life balance offered.
- Some reviews mention a lack of clear career progression and development opportunities.