Multiple overlapping promotional digital ads for streaming services, electronic devices, and entertainment products, featuring images of TV screens, a woman in a pot with cannabis leaves, a cat balancing on a railing, and various app and product logos.

Roku — Lifecycle & Email Design

During my six-plus years at Roku, I led email design across a wide range of lifecycle campaigns, product launches, and streaming-content promotions. My work spanned hundreds of email designs, from individual campaigns to reusable templates and scalable design systems.

This page highlights a selection of that work, showcasing responsive design, visual storytelling, and the systems used to deliver consistent experiences across devices and email clients.


Email Design Overview

Role

Senior Visual Designer, Email Design Lead

Scope

Lifecycle Campaigns, Product Launches & Content Promotions

Expertise

Responsive Email Design, Design Systems, Visual Design

Platform

Email, Desktop & Mobile

Advertisement for Roku Streambar featuring sports theme, with a remote control and a soundbar, promoting an upgrade to 4K streaming and premium audio, highlight of a discount offer.

Product

Mobile phone screen displaying a promotional poster for the TV show "Escape Plan" with two men in a high-tech prison, the title "Escape Plan" in large bold letters, and a "Stream Escape Plan" message with a "Watch Free" button.

Content

Across Roku's email ecosystem, I designed campaigns supporting both product marketing and streaming-content discovery.

Product campaigns focused on introducing new devices, highlighting features, and guiding customers toward product exploration and purchase.

Content campaigns showcased movies, shows, and streaming recommendations, using engaging visuals and clear calls to action to encourage viewers to discover and watch content on Roku.


Email Design Principles

Across product launches, lifecycle campaigns, and streaming-content promotions, I applied a consistent set of design principles to create engaging, responsive emails while supporting Roku's brand standards and marketing objectives.

A purple star-shaped sparkle icon on a black background.

Visual Storytelling

Create compelling email experiences through strong imagery, typography, and clear visual hierarchy.

Icon of a smartphone with a purple outline

Responsive Design

Adapt layouts and content for readability, accessibility, and usability across devices and email clients.

Five purple rings arranged in a circular pattern.

Scalable Systems

Build reusable templates and components to maintain consistency and streamline campaign production.

Stylized purple bar chart with increasing bars on a black background.

Performance-Focused Design

Use clear calls to action, campaign objectives, and performance insights to inform design decisions and iterations.


Laptop and smartphone showcasing promotional material for Roku TV, featuring a dark outdoor background with a full moon, and three young characters from Teen Wolf with bold white text promoting the show and free streaming.

Responsive Emails for Any Device

Designed responsive email experiences that adapted across desktop and mobile, maintaining clear visual hierarchy, readable content, and prominent calls to action.

Each layout balanced creative storytelling with the technical constraints of email development, helping deliver consistent experiences across different screen sizes and email clients.

Product Marketing & Content Discovery

Screenshots of Roku product advertisements and promotional webpage. The first shows a smart outdoor security camera and a TV with a discounted price. The second displays a streaming device with a promotion for 20% off. The third promotes the Roku Ultra streaming player with a discounted price, several accessories, and a button to check it out.

Designed email campaigns supporting Roku product launches, promotional offers, and streaming-content discovery. Each campaign combined compelling visuals, clear messaging, and prominent calls to action to help customers explore products, discover entertainment, and engage with Roku's ecosystem.

Working across multiple campaign types, I developed flexible layouts and reusable design patterns that maintained brand consistency while allowing each product or content release to have its own visual identity.

Advertisement for Roku streaming service featuring various TV shows including 'Punk'd', 'Teenwolf', and 'Bitten', highlighting options to watch on demand, with descriptions of new releases and original series.

Email Design Systems & Production

Designed email campaigns supporting Roku product launches, promotional offers, and streaming-content discovery. Each campaign combined compelling visuals, clear messaging, and prominent calls to action to help customers explore products, discover entertainment, and engage with Roku's ecosystem.

Working across multiple campaign types, I developed flexible layouts and reusable design patterns that maintained brand consistency while allowing each product or content release to have its own visual identity.

Email and streaming app interface featuring an image of a man in glasses with four seated individuals in the background, promoting Morimotos Sushi Master on Roku.

Design Specifications

Each design deliverable was meticulously crafted to ensure pixel-perfect accuracy, adherence to brand standards, and responsiveness across devices. From high-fidelity mockups to final production-ready assets, every detail was optimized for compatibility across a wide range of email clients and screen sizes.


Wireframe layout showing two 16:9 content cards with placeholder text, a purple watch button, and a pink add to save list button, divided into two columns.

Reusable Components & Templates

Specifications included careful consideration of file size, image quality, and accessibility to guarantee fast load times and a seamless user experience on any platform. All designs were tested to meet industry standards, ensuring both visual impact and technical performance.


People participating in a virtual meeting in a well-lit office, with a computer displaying multiple video call participants.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partnered with lifecycle marketing, product marketing, copywriters, and email developers to bring campaigns from creative briefs through production. Collaborated on campaign requirements, design reviews, technical constraints, and implementation to maintain quality and brand consistency across launches.

More Email Design Samples

A selection of additional Roku email campaigns spanning product promotions, streaming-content discovery, and lifecycle marketing. These examples represent a small portion of the email experiences I designed throughout my time at Roku.

A collage of advertisements for Roku streaming devices and services, featuring a woman with marijuana leaves in the background, and various promotional offers for Roku products like the Roku Streambar, Roku Wireless Bass, and Roku Streaming Stick 4K.