Senior Design Researcher - User Science

Canonical

📍 Home based - EMEA 💼 Fully Remote 📅 Posted: 2026-05-07 🌟 3/5 Relevance 📊 Source: Greenhouse Canonical

Job Description

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring a Senior Design Researcher for our Design Team. 

User Science is an evolving design discipline at Canonical. While we have long incorporated diverse research on user needs into our products, the mission of the newly formed User Science team is to expand beyond traditional models of UX research, integrating user needs end-to-end in development processes and quality standards across the company. 

This mission requires skillful advocacy as well as organizational learning and change. As process pioneers, we draw insights from others, foster collaborative user research cultures, and constantly innovate with frameworks and standards.

This role sits in the design team reporting to the User Science Manager.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

 

The role entails

• Conducting user research: Developing user insights in diverse formats, identifying and championing user needs across product areas. 

• Sharing findings concisely and skillfully: Supporting different teams with well-matched research presentations and clear documentation systems.

• Promoting and shaping a data-informed culture: Working closely with process, product, and engineering teams to integrate user research into existing decision-making flows.

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Skills & Technologies

Cloud Data Design EMEA Engineering HR Management Platform Product Senior
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