UI/UX Designer
About Roon Labs
The Roon team has a common passion for music, sound, and user experience. We are proud to deliver high quality, well-loved software (and some hardware) to music lovers and audiophiles all over the world. Our subscribers are more than customers; they’re fans who share our passion for music and participate vigorously in the community that surrounds our product, which has become the gold standard for music players in the world of high performance audio, with more than 100,000 users around the globe.
Roon Labs is a self-funded, profitable small business founded in 2015 which currently has 30 employees. All of its principals are hands-on and work for the company full time. We’re growing at a quick but manageable pace – 80-100% year-on-year subscriber growth.
When we founded the company, we set out to delight the most demanding music enthusiasts and audiophiles, not to acquire a billion users. That vision stands today… we don’t have outside investors because we don’t want our product vision to conflict with our business goals. Roon is a premium-priced offering designed for a specialist audience, so we don’t need massive scale and we avoid the risk of being forced into an exit by business pressures.
Roon Labs is notionally headquartered in New York, but we have no offices. Instead, our team is distributed across three continents, and everyone works remotely. Many members of our team travel extensively around the world. We have a long history of working this way, and we love the flexibility and lifestyle that it allows.
The Role
As a UI/UX Designer, your work will involve product design, interaction design, and visual design. Roon users are discerning, obsessive music lovers, and our team is equally passionate. We're always thinking of new highly functional and visually exciting ways to interact with the music that we love.
You’ll be tasked with helping to build and maintain the visual style and user experience of Roon across desktop, mobile, and the web. You’ll be working closely with the product team and front-end developers to incorporate feedback and solve problems throughout the development cycle. This requires thinking through user problems, finding reasonable solutions, mocking them up in detail, creating prototypes, helping with usability testing, and working with engineers to build the final product.
About You
- You have excellent communication skills, and speak and write English well.
- You are detail oriented and are excited to polish until your work is pixel-perfect.
- You can work independently and own projects to completion.
- You are ready to collaborate closely with our product leads, marketing team, and engineering department to ship beautiful and intuitive new features.
- You can accept feedback and engage in productive debate about design.
- You aren't afraid of doing grunt work when your projects require it.
- You are comfortable making noise when you get stuck or when something feels wrong.
- You think in terms of design systems and make rational design decisions.
- You understand the technical limitations behind your decisions and can communicate your ideas to our engineers.
- You have a polished sense of style and can work within and expand our design language.
Details
The most active portion of our work day is 11AM-6PMEST. Your typical work hours should overlap that period sufficiently to facilitate collaboration with others. Aside from that, we do not care where you are located or if you need to split up your work hours in a non-standard way.
We offer Health/Dental/Vision (80/20), 401k with match, paid parental leave, and flexible time-off.
