#ux engineer

Roll20 is looking for a remote-first UI/UX Engineer. If you would like to join our team, please read the job description below and follow the instructions to submit your application. We are also hiring a Graphic Designer, a Community Manager, and an Account Associate!

When this position is filled, it will be crossed out like this. If the job posting has not been crossed out, it is still open and we encourage you to apply!

UI/UX Engineer

This position will work with the development team and product owners. This position will be integral to ensuring user interface elements are designed and implemented and functional on the Roll20 website, virtual tabletop, and mobile applications. This will include reworking existing interfaces, being a champion for accessibility, improving internationalization, and designing new interfaces to improve the user experience.

Skills we are looking for:

A visual design perspective that is tech-forward, professional, and engaging

Practice in User Interface and User Experience design for a wide range of devices

Use of UX software such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Balsamiq, or the like

Experience with Javascript (the Good Parts), HTML5, and CSS

Ability to clearly communicate research and design ideas with development team and company management

Self-initiating work style & flexible viewpoint

We will also look at:

Experience with Ruby (Sinatra, not Rails), Firebase, PostgreSQL, MediaWiki, WebGL, Canvas, NodejS, and/or React Native.

A strong portfolio of existing work on Github or another portfolio site

A firm grasp of Adobe Creative Suite - particularly Photoshop, GIMP, or a similar visual design software package

Development activities on iOS and/or Android mobile applications

Having worked on teams using Agile Scrum

Roll20 Profile link, if you have one

Use of Roll20, including utilizing the Roll20 API, Character Sheet Creation, or Marketplace Submissions

This is a full-time exempt position. Compensation includes a competitive salary, as well as employer-paid health insurance, group life and personal accident insurance, a 401k with employer-matching, and an employee assistance program.

I was invited to sit on a panel discussing UX careers recently, and I'd like to share some of the questions that were posed. This is going to be a new series of posts that I'll string out over the next few weeks.

What career pathways do you believe have emerged for UX professionals in the past 10 years?

The first one that jumps to mind is DesignOps. Derived from DevOps, Dave Malouf coined the term in 2014, and it caught on rapidly, largely because a lot of people were thinking about it and trying to mature it, but they hadn't had a name for it. Dave worked with Lou Rosenfeld to launch the DesignOps Summit in 2017. Today, large design organizations are staffing DesignOps teams.

Another fairly recent career path is that of UX Engineer. This is a hybrid role: part frontend developer but with a true design bent. They have the chops to contribute production-ready code, and they understand interaction design and visual design enough to realize and respect the intent of the designer. They ensure that implementation is faithful to the design.

I would also suggest that, while UX researchers have been around for a long time, the role has really come into its own in the past 10 years. ResearchOps followed right on the heals of DesignOps, and there was widespread acknowledgement that we, as designers, still had a lot to learn about the rigor of quality research. Teams were maturing to the point that research specialists were becoming common.

One of the benefits of hosting this podcast for the past eight years is that I get to see how guests progress in their career. Such is the case with this week’s guest, Adekunle Oduye! He was one of our first podcast guests way back in 2014, and I recently asked him to come back on the podcast and give everyone an update!

We talked a bit about his current role at Mailchimp, and he went into the importance of design systems in his work. Adekunle also spoke on how his career has shifted over the years, the power of mentorship, and we revisit his 2014 interview to see if his motivations and goals are still on track with where he is now. It’s rare that we get a chance to do this type of self-reflection, but it’s definitely clear that Adekunle has grown and evolved by defining his career on his own terms!

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