Company Overview

Root Robotics is creating robots, apps, and curricula that will be this generation's way to fall in love with coding. We are the makers of Root, a wall driving, music playing, artwork drawing robot with a unique coding interface that goes from a graphical environment up to career-based languages.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced visual designer who is an advocate for finding simplicity and making clean pure experiences. This is a role with responsibilities that covers every aesthetic element of Root’s experience including web interface, app interface, print content, and marketing materials. We are looking for a high energy, experienced designer that is self-motivated, goal oriented, and a strong team player with a proven track record of their work reaching large audiences.

Primary Responsibilities

• Create simple and seamless elements across UI/UX mockups, display ads, print media, website materials, and app interfaces.
• Distill product requirements and user goals into sketches, wireframes, and artboards
• Collaborate with team members to collect user needs and strategies that need support.
• Constantly reevaluate existing approaches and implement ways to simplify experiences through animations or imagery.
• Create a design language that is pure and engaging for a wide age audience and consistent across all media platforms.
• Use illustration tools to mock up the look, content, and flow of design elements.

Qualifications and Skills

• 3+ years of experience creating world-class artwork with a portfolio showing your wide variety of skills.
• Infographics and storyboarding to explain complex problems
• Extremely creative and can create wide varieties of assets (animations a plus)
• Thrive in an iterative and rapid prototyping design process
• Excellent communication and drawing skills
• Experience designing for smartphone or tablet apps