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Junior UX Designer

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Canonical

29d ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Entry & Junior Level
  • Design
  • Düsseldorf
    Remote

AI generated summary

  • You should have a strong academic background, a degree in UX/design or related fields, knowledge of user experience, commitment to learning, confidence in user research, and ability to travel internationally.
  • You will research features with the community, collaborate with teams, align design efforts, evolve design systems, understand interconnected constraints, and support Canonical's design initiatives.

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

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • Engaging with the design team to keep our efforts aligned with product strategy and best practices
  • 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

FAQs

What is the primary role of a Junior UX Designer at Canonical?

The primary role of a Junior UX Designer at Canonical is to contribute to the success of Ubuntu and Canonical’s products by researching user needs, collaborating with product managers and engineers, and helping to create intuitive, efficient designs.

What qualifications are required for this position?

Candidates should have an exceptional academic track record, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in User Experience, Design, STEM, or a compelling alternative pathway. A passion for user experience, technology, and design is also essential.

Is travel required for this role?

Yes, the role requires the ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events lasting up to two weeks.

What is the work environment like at Canonical?

Canonical offers a distributed work environment with collaboration through remote work and two in-person team sprints each year in interesting locations around the world.

What opportunities for personal development are available at Canonical?

Canonical provides a personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year to support continuous growth and improvement.

Are there any specific qualities Canonical seeks in a Junior UX Designer?

Canonical looks for candidates who are result-oriented, curious, flexible, confident in user research practices, and excited about tackling complex design challenges.

Does Canonical offer performance reviews?

Yes, Canonical conducts annual compensation reviews to recognize outstanding performance, and these reviews are more frequent for graduates and associates.

What benefits does Canonical provide to its employees?

Canonical offers a range of benefits including annual holiday leave, maternity and paternity leave, Employee Assistance Programme, recognition rewards, and travel upgrades for company events.

How does Canonical support diversity in the workplace?

Canonical fosters a workplace free from discrimination and values diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds, offering fair consideration to all applicants regardless of their identity.

Who do Junior UX Designers collaborate with at Canonical?

Junior UX Designers collaborate with the open source community, Canonical customers, product managers, engineers, and the design team to shape products and maintain alignment with product strategy.

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Canonical

Enterprise open source, secured and delivered by the publisher of Ubuntu.

Technology
Industry
501-1000
Employees
2004
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Canonical is a technology company known for developing and supporting Ubuntu, a popular open-source operating system. The company focuses on providing reliable, secure, and cost-effective solutions for cloud computing, IoT, and containers. By leveraging open-source technologies, Canonical aims to enable innovation and digital transformation for businesses and developers worldwide. The company is committed to ensuring high performance and scalability, promoting the adoption of open-source software, and fostering a global community of users and contributors.

Benefits

  • Remote working

    Canonical has been a fully distributed organisation since its origin in 2004. Digital collaboration allows us to enjoy our home environment and work with the best in the world in our domain. We meet each other at least twice per year during in-person sprints to nurture cross-team relationships.

  • We build trust

    Zero commute means more time for the things you enjoy. At the same time, we have very high expectations of commitment and independent execution. We invest in people who are self-driven, motivated and highly organised. We take our responsibility for the most critical elements of open infrastructure very seriously, and we are committed to quality in every aspect of our product and services.

  • We engineer excellence

    We aspire to lead on the global stage. There’s no other way to describe it than hard work, hard challenges and hard competition. You will need to show that you can compete in deeply challenging intellectual fields. Your colleagues are aiming for the top, and they depend on you to set the same standard in your area of responsibility. That’s tough but incredibly satisfying. We value those who take ownership of their area and take opportunities to be exceptional.

  • We travel

    We optimise our team structure for time zone overlap. Collaboration and inspiration takes time to fully develop but leadership at Canonical means building cross-team relationships. We nurture those relationships through regular global summits which bring diverse teams or their leaders together. We host these events around the world to discover great places to explore and appreciate in the process. Team events have taken place in Vancouver, Brugge, New York, Budapest, Orlando, Cape Town, Warsaw, Seoul, Paris, Portland, Lyon, London, Toronto and many more.