Senior UX Designer role at Red Hat in Raleigh

About the job

Red Hat is on a mission to be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way. To help fulfill that mission, the User Experience Design (UXD) team is looking for a Senior UX Designer to contribute to the design, strategy, implementation, and evolution of PatternFly: Red Hat’s open source design system.
 
The UXD team helps make Red Hat products easy—and enjoyable—for all people to use. Our global team of researchers, designers, content designers, and developers work together to bridge the technical world to the human world with intuitive and approachable product experiences. While each of us has unique skills and talents, we all agree that the best ideas come from diverse minds and fresh perspectives. Whether we’re collaboratively supporting Red Hat’s product portfolio, exchanging ideas in upstream communities, or crunching code for PatternFly (Red Hat’s open source design system), our focus on teamwork, empathy, and transparency play a key role in building products our users love.

What you will do

We’re looking for someone with strong design, leadership, and technical skills who has experience creating design systems and libraries and can work across disciplines to align behind unified design language principles. As a Senior UX Designer, you will:

• Contribute to the PatternFly design system across components, styles, layouts, and more.
• Build, maintain, and evolve a shareable PatternFly design library in Figma.
• Design for breaking visual changes, including new visual themes.
• Consult with product designers around using the PatternFly design system in products to establish a consistent, accessible, and on-brand cross-portfolio product experience.
• Ensure that product designers are provided with the tools and information needed to use PatternFly to its fullest, allowing them to create solutions confidently and efficiently.
• Plan, strategize, and execute the PatternFly design experience to define the look, feel, and function of all Red Hat products.
• Regularly collaborate across UXD Research, Design, and Development teams to ensure that PatternFly designs are built, scaled, maintained, and implemented in ways that serve users.
• Connect various design teams and efforts across Product, Brand, and Digital to work towards a shared design language and create alignment across website, marketing, brand, and product design experiences.

What you will bring

You might be a good fit for this role if:

• You’re skilled at creating design systems and contributing to their design success.
• You’re proficient in Figma and comfortable with designing and using token and variable systems.
• You have experience working in GitHub.
• You have experience designing WCAG-compliant, accessible interfaces.
• You have graphic and visual design experience and value the importance of visual unity across a product portfolio.
• You’re a clear communicator who can align teams around a shared vision.
• You have a design portfolio.
• You hold a college degree in Graphic Design, User-Centered Design, Human Factors, or a related field. 
   
  Preferred qualifications
• UI animation and/or illustration skills
• HTML/CSS knowledge
   
  Working at Red Hat
  Red Hat’s culture runs on open source. We openly share ideas, welcome new points of view, and celebrate the diverse attributes that make each person a unique and impactful Red Hatter. Every one of us works together to build a strong sense of community while maintaining individual autonomy and accountability.

No matter who you are or where you come from, we invite you to join us in changing the world with open source technology. Learn more about Red Hat’s culture.  
 
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates have the flexibility to choose the work environment that suits their needs from in-office to fully remote to office-flex. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact. Opportunities are open. Join us.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Red Hat
Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions of diversity that compose our global village.

Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)
Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.