Job: UI Designer

Job Location

US - CA - San Jose

Job Description

Help us evolve the product that revolutionized television! TiVo's product goal is to create a television viewing experience that is so easy, everyone in the household will love interacting with it. As we continue to innovate our TV DVR functionality as well as add home networking and mobility features, we need to heed our mantra of "Smart. Simple. Fun. Connected."This role works closely with peers in Research, Customer Support, Product Management, and engineering teams to gather information on our products. We have a collaborative, team-oriented, consensus-building approach to design, and we believe in taking input and feedback from a wide variety of sources.Here is what you get to do:

• Create and iterate UI designs of DVR applications, producing detailed written specifications for Engineering
• Work with Visual Designers, Web Developers, and Prototypers to create mockups and functional prototypes of your designs
• Partner withUser Research to test and refine your designs
• Plan with Product Management to define feature/product requirements
• Work with Engineering to understand architecture and development issues and make appropriate design tradeoffs
• Team up with Customer Support to understand issues subscribers have with the current UI

What you'll need to be successful:

• At least four years user-interface design experience in a consumer application software development environment
• Excellent design skills and a proven track record of designing consumer-targeted applications and writing detailed UI/functional specifications
• "Big picture" design ideas
• Extreme detail orientation and an obsession for consistency
• Clear, organized writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Logical, analytical thinking
• Reasonable understanding of underlying technical issues
• An affinity for entertainment in multiple media
• Mobile or embedded-system application design experience preferred

TiVo is unique. We're successful because of diversity of thought, skill sets, experience, and pure talent.