Senior UI/UX Designer

Summary

Join Scythe, a company revolutionizing lawn care with electric robotic mowers, as their first in-house Senior UI/UX Designer. You will establish the foundation for Scythe's digital presence, leading UX/UI design for customer-facing interfaces (web, mobile, and robot). Responsibilities include creating and maintaining a design system, conducting user research, and iterating based on feedback. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and advocate for user-centered design. The role also includes occasional graphic design support. Scythe offers a competitive salary and equity, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• UX/UI Design Expertise: You’re experienced in creating user-centered designs for mobile and desktop applications, ensuring they are both visually appealing and highly functional
• Expert in User Research: Led or contributed to various user research methods (including but not limited to A/B testing, qualitative 1:1 interviews, focus groups, etc.) to gather insights and validate design decisions
• Strategic Alignment and Delivery: You’re experienced in aligning product design with broader business strategy, ensuring that your work balances user insights and business goals. You’re excellent at breaking down complex problems into clear, actionable design solutions
• Collaborate and Iterate: You thrive in a collaborative environment, working with product and engineering teams to find solutions that not only meet both user and business needs, but are feasible and align with technical constraints
• Tool Proficiency: You can nimbly bounce between Figma and Photoshop without stuttering a step (proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma required, PowerPoint a huge plus)

Responsibilities

• Lead UX/UI Design for Digital Products: Drive the design of Scythe’s customer-facing interfaces. You'll create intuitive, user-centered designs that enhance the functionality and usability of our products for landscape professionals
• Create and Maintain a Design System: Extend the Scythe brand identity to all digital touch points by establishing a cohesive design system to enable scalability and efficiency in future design work
• User Research & Prototyping: Conduct user research, design wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to ensure our digital products meet user needs and are easy to navigate
• Iterate Based on Feedback: Engage in iterative design processes, incorporating feedback from internal teams and customers to refine and improve the product experience
• Advocate for User-Centered Design: Drive conversations that champion the needs of our users. Balance conflicting priorities and feedback, navigating discussions to align cross-functional teams around a shared vision of user experience excellence
• Adaptable Graphic Design Skills: While your primary focus is product design, you’re comfortable jumping in to support graphic design tasks when needed, from marketing collateral to user instructions to print ads. You’ll ensure that the Scythe brand identity is consistently applied across all mediums

Preferred Qualifications

• Successfully navigated an engineering environment as a staunch creative
• Designed and delivered complex mobile and web applications with a focus on user experience
• Worked in a fast-paced, agile environment, managing multiple projects and shifting priorities
• Applied a consistent brand identity across digital and non-digital touchpoints
• Dabbled in photography or video editing
• Experience working with robotics or in a technical field is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Fully-sponsored medical, vision, and dental insurance, including 75% funded dependent coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching today)
• Headquarters in beautiful Longmont, CO (near Boulder, CO.) Enjoy the bounties of nature and open spaces close to home with mountain biking, hiking, skiing and more
• Satellite offices in Dallas, TX and Fort Pierce, FL
• Flexible paid time-off and remote work to let you do your best work where and when you want
• Highly collaborative learning culture where personal freedom, growth, and responsibility are valued
• An opportunity to have an incredible positive impact on the world