UX Design Technologist

Job Description

We don’t just love TV. We are TV.

Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., and we’ve set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

Our talented and diverse UX team delights users one design at a time, while building and enhancing a UX culture within Roku that nurtures our ongoing enrichment and elevates the UX maturity across the company and the industry.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Design Technologist to be part of our UX Engineering team. On this team, we take design concepts and bring them to life.

What You’ll Do in This Role

• Own UX Engineering team’s libraries, framework, and platform. Keep iterating architecting, developing, and documenting for better usability, performance, and efficiency
• Develop prototypes with flexibility in mind, so they can be quickly iterated, pivoted, and updated
• Work closely with UX Designers, User Researchers, Product Managers, and other cross-functional stakeholders to understand and give input on requirements
• Give and receive feedback in regular design critiques with your design peers
• Work closely with Product Managers to identify the problems, business goals, and user outcomes that your designs will address

What You’ll Bring to the Table

• 6+ years of experience in UI/Frontend engineering, building or prototyping consumer-facing products across web, mobile, and/or TV
• Ability to abstract and interpret the intention of a UX design and suggest creative ways to prototype concepts rapidly
• Ability to work on multiple simultaneous projects independently
• Strong communication and excellent problem-solving skills
• UX Design sensibilities: You have an eye for detail, flow, and usability
• A passion for innovation and problem solving
• Endless empathy for the user
• Hands-on experience working with User Researchers is a huge plus
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript (React or Vue) and CSS

During Your First Year in This Role, You’ll

• Work closely with UX Designers and User Researchers from scoping to delivery of prototypes
• Drive the prototyping project to be the key and successful tools in evaluating how users will react use the design concepts
• Participate in the design process that makes Roku easy and delightful for our 60+ million users around the world
• With your own keen eyes, recognize when things are not clear, initiate a discussion, and make an insightful suggestion
• Quickly create mockups and prototypes for both internal evaluation and user testing
• Partner with our stellar User Researchers and help mold the research plans to ensure we give the most salient information for the next round of design decisions
• Participate in the deeply synergistic team of UXers at Roku – you’ll share knowledge, exchange ideas, and have one of the best sounding boards in the tech industry

About Our Hiring Process for this Role

We know your time is valuable, so we love being transparent about our hiring processes.

For this Design Technologist role, we typically start with call from your dedicated Roku recruiter. Then you’ll have a follow-up call with the Hiring Manager (UX Engineering Manager). After that, we’ll ask you to decide whether you’d like to do a take-home exercise or a live-coding test. Please note that, although the take home exercise will take a good amount of your personal time, you will feel less pressure since there will be no time limit and nobody watching your screen. The final step will be one-on-one meetings with each of the 3-4 interviewers, and that’s it! Throughout the process, your Roku recruiter will be there for you every step of the way.

We’d love to tell you more details about this role, the responsibilities you’ll have, and the products you’ll be working on – let’s talk!

More About Us

Roku has become famous for making sure each feature and product is as perfect as it can be - just look at our remote control or user interface - while still pushing the boundaries of what it means to watch TV. In order to help ship features and products, you will partner with product management and engineering leaders to innovate and deliver features and capabilities across the Roku platform, while maintaining the integrity and cohesiveness of our user experience. Great candidates are comfortable with ambiguity, though that isn't code for "sloppy." Even when you aren't sure, you should move forward precisely and quickly knowing that action creates its own certainty. And because everyone here is empowered, your performance at Roku tends to come from getting others to embrace your idea. It's the most collaborative people who can drop their ego in service of their customers and create the win-win of success for our customers.

We believe that great user experiences come from people who have the vision to see the big picture on the macro side while still maintaining an incredible attention to detail on the micro side. More than ability to keep the vision while managing the minutiae: We need someone who can play three-dimensional chess on the axes of what our customers need, what our world-class engineers can produce, with the third axis being keeping things as elegantly easy as possible (and no more).

The Roku Culture

Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the company’s success rather than their own. We try to surround ourselves with people who are great at their jobs, who are easy to work with, and who keep their egos in check. We appreciate a sense of humor. We’re independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly, move fast and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and trust. In short, at Roku you’ll be part of a company that’s changing how the world watches TV.
We have a unique culture that we are proud of. We think of ourselves primarily as problem-solvers, which itself is a two-part idea. We come up with the solution, but the solution isn’t real until it is impeccably designed, flawlessly built, and delivered to the customer. That penchant for action gives us a pragmatic approach to innovation, one that has served us well since 2002.

Meet our UX VP and Check out what some of our current UX Designers have to say!

...or hear directly from dozens of our Roku staff around the world at http://bit.ly/WeAreRokuVideos.

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