Rachio is a leader in smart home/Internet of Things (IoT) technology based in downtown Denver. We are seeking a Senior UX/UI designer to join our product team.  

Our product marries hardware, software (including native mobile apps and a web app), and the real world (including weather and evapotranspiration data); your job is to simplify these complexities for our users to create beautiful, enjoyable, and even educational experiences in our users’ “smart yard.”

Responsibilities

• Help lead in creating consistent, branded, high-quality experiences across Android, iOS, and web

• Partner with our in-house creative director to create a visual/design language that can be employed across platforms and scales to multiple products (not just sprinkler controllers)

• Partner with our in-house UX researchers to develop deep empathy for our users, understand key use cases/user stories, and always design with the user’s goals and challenges in mind

• Partner with our engineers to understand technical constraints and possibilities, and work closely with engineering to implement live code as early as possible

• Create mobile-first/responsive designs from project start to finish, including diagramming user flows, creating wireframes and creating high-fidelity clickable prototypes, and delivering pixel-perfect dev ready designs

• Communicate effectively with all parts of our organization, especially product management, engineering, and UX research/consumer insights; pitch designs and concepts to stakeholders

• Apply your extensive experience in UX design best practices/patterns to design solutions while educating and building capacity within the UX and product teams

Qualifications

• Proficient in Sketch, Invision, Adobe Creative Suite and/or other programs

• Able to deliver final design comps and work closely with engineers to implement

• Excellent understanding of Apple’s Human Interaction Guidelines (HIG) and Google Material Design guidelines

• Strategic understanding of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns

• Excellent visual design skills and proven track record of creating and implementing design libraries

• Experience working within an Agile development process

• BS in human interaction design, graphic design, or similar

• 5-7 years of UX design experience in professional design setting

Desired

• Experience with UI design for a consumer electronic product

• UX design experience for hardware IoT

• Graphic design for user interfaces on multiple platforms

• Web design, including ability to understand and write HTML, CSS, and JS

• Ability to write code and understand the development process

• Previous management/team lead experience

Please Submit

• Resume

• Instead of a cover letter, please answer the following question:

  • Increasingly, tech products take in a lot of data and make decisions for the user. The processes are hidden from the user and the user's mental model may not match what is actually happening in the system. What product/app/site that does this best creates a sense of trust with the user? How do they do it?

• Portfolio

Your portfolio should include:

• 4 examples of work related projects you have created (attachments must be formatted in PDF)

• Explain the process involved in developing the design or project

Compensation

• Salary based on experience

• Stock options

Benefits

• Great location in the heart of Downtown Denver

• Employee Paid Medical & Dental Insurance, 50% spouse paid

• 401(k) Employee Retirement Savings Account

• Paid Holidays & Flexible Time-Off Policy

About Rachio

Rachio is a mission-based startup that is changing the way people water. Our smart sprinkler controller makes running sprinklers easy while saving water and money. In fact, we’ve saved over 20+ billion gallons of water to date. An industry leader in the connected home space, Rachio has one of the highest rated and reviewed products on the market.