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Full-Time

Senior UI/UX Designer

Posted on 10/29/2024

Scythe Robotics

Scythe Robotics

51-200 employees

Autonomous mowers for commercial landscaping

Robotics & Automation
Energy
Consumer Goods

Compensation Overview

$125kAnnually

Senior

Longmont, CO, USA

Headquarters in Longmont, CO; open to candidates outside of Colorado.

Category
Product & UX/UI Design
UI/UX & Design
Required Skills
UI/UX Design
Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
Graphic Design
PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides
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.

Scythe Robotics operates in the commercial landscaping market, providing an autonomous solution for lawn care with its main product, the M.52 mower. This machine can mow lawns on its own, allowing human workers to focus on other maintenance tasks. The M.52 is battery-powered, which means it runs quietly and produces no gas emissions, making it an environmentally friendly option. Scythe Robotics targets commercial clients like property management companies and municipalities, and it uses a subscription model where clients only pay for the mower when it is in use. This aligns the company's success with the efficiency of its clients. Unlike competitors, Scythe Robotics emphasizes sustainability and a customer-focused approach, which has attracted significant venture capital support. The goal of Scythe Robotics is to enhance the efficiency of lawn care while promoting green technology in the landscaping industry.

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$75.5M

Headquarters

Boulder, Colorado

Founded

2018

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

18%

1 year growth

33%

2 year growth

127%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Scythe Robotics' expansion in Colorado and the doubling of its production capabilities indicate strong growth and increasing market demand.
  • The company's environmentally friendly, all-electric mowers offer a sustainable alternative in the commercial landscaping market, appealing to eco-conscious clients.
  • Strong venture capital backing and strategic partnerships enhance Scythe Robotics' financial stability and growth potential.

What critics are saying

  • The high demand and long waitlist for the M.52 mower could lead to customer dissatisfaction if production cannot keep pace.
  • Operating in the nascent autonomous mowing market, Scythe Robotics faces the challenge of educating and converting traditional landscapers to adopt new technology.

What makes Scythe Robotics unique

  • Scythe Robotics' M.52 mower is fully autonomous and battery-powered, setting it apart from traditional gas-powered and manually operated commercial mowers.
  • The company's usage-based billing model aligns its success with client efficiency, unlike traditional sales models that profit from machine sales and repairs.
  • Adopting the North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its mowers positions Scythe Robotics as a forward-thinking player in the EV ecosystem.

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