UX Designer, Roku
Streaming Experience
$185-210k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Open for applications
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$185-210k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide its users with a more convenient and cost effective way of watching the programs they love.
Role
Who you are
- Experience designing a variety of features related to TV streaming services for consumer audiences
- A proven track record in interaction design, showing artifacts of the process that help support your design decisions, as well as the business results driven by those designs
- Experience collaborating with product managers, developers, and management to refine design concepts through rapid iterations, meeting the goals of both users and the business
- Hands-on experience working with User Researchers (or conducting User Research yourself) and utilizing the results of that research to shape your designs
- Expertise in designing and prototyping with Figma
- A passion for getting the subtle details right when it comes to creating a high-performing, world-class experience
- Endless empathy for the user
- A degree in Design, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field
What the job involves
- Roku is looking for a UX Product Designer with strong interaction design skills to drive improvements to our Premium Subscription services within The Roku Channel, with an initial focus on migrating our standalone Frndly TV live TV streaming service into our Premium Subscriptions experiences
- This design work will involve UX for browsing and searching for shows, live TV guide integration, merchandising, subscription flows, playback, and more, with a strong focus on collaboration with other UX designers working in these areas
- The Roku Channel currently offers more than 50 premium subscription services – including Paramount+, HBO Max, and Discovery+ -- with more coming every quarter. Each features a consistent user interface to help customers enjoy their entertainment across multiple subscriptions in one place
- Work closely with product managers and business stakeholders to identify the problems, business goals, and user outcomes that your designs will address
- Design features for Premium Subscription services within The Roku Channel, with an initial focus on our Frndly live TV streaming platform, so that they collectively create a consistent, seamless, easy-to-use experience for customers to subscribe to and watch their favorite shows
- Collaborate closely with Product Management and developers throughout the project lifecycle
- Partner with experienced User Researchers to gain insight on user needs, and to determine and execute the ideal research methodology to evaluate your designs
- Collaborate with other UX designers responsible for features related to browsing, searching, playback, live TV Guide, sign-up flows, and more
- Own your designs and communicate effectively, articulating your design decisions to colleagues from diverse disciplines
- Give and receive feedback in regular design critiques with your peers and during formal design reviews with UX management
Our take
According to Nielsen data, the average streamer spends over seven minutes searching for something to watch. Streaming services use customers' viewing history to make suggestions, but these are limited to programs licensed for that particular service.
Roku provides an integrated streaming service that offers TV channels, movies and third-party streaming services, resulting in an all-in-one streaming platform. The service can be accessed through a variety of customized subscription packages and fees.
Roku stands out in the streaming industry by bringing many competitors together in one package. The startup provides further innovative services such as a weekly TV series named 'Roku Recommends' which uses first-party data to recommend essential viewing to users. Alongside funding filmmakers through its "Change Makers Program", Roku also acquired its own original library of shows through its acquisition of now-defunct Quibi's library in 2021. After successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released in 2023, further exemplifying the streaming company's wider ambitions in the media sector.
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Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2016
$45.5m
LATE VC
Nov 2015
$45.5m
SERIES H
Total funding: $247.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, wellness and financial benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Anthony Wood
(Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Texas A&M before founding their first company in 1986. They held VP roles at both Adobe and Netflix.
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