Senior Designer

Job Description

We build experiences for the modern intranet and drive industry-leading publishing offerings for Viva Connections, SharePoint, Teams, Yammer and Stream across web, desktop and mobile experiences. We love big challenges, and we work with a broad set of technologies to address key customer needs with outstanding experiences. Our employee engagement and corporate communications offerings are mission-critical for customers around the world; our usage is strong and growing, having doubled again this past year.We are seeking an exceptional Senior Designer with a proven track record for creating usable, seamless, elegant and impactful design solutions, deeply rooted in customer needs. The person in this role will contribute hands-on work. This is an exceptional opportunity to reach hundreds of millions of people with your innovative and creative work. We ll approach our problem space with empathy for our customers as well as drive to innovate and evolve the product. We re building partnerships with teams across Microsoft, functioning as scenario and customer experts to solve real customer problems.Our Culture:Our Studio is a diverse team of designers, researchers and UX Engineers who partner closely with PM, Engineering, Marketing and other disciplines. We are a high-performing team that challenges ourselves to live the Microsoft philosophies around inclusive culture and growth mindset. We embrace the Model, Coach, Care management framework with support for the growth of each individual on the team.We have a proven track record of delivering strong business results with key metrics to track our successes and failures. Much of our team is local to Redmond, Washington, but we also partner closely with our teams in India, China and new teams in Atlanta & Vancouver, Canada. We like to have fun, celebrate our wins, and learn and grow from our mistakes.We focus on creating an inclusive workplace where all people and ideas are welcome. To this end, we ve created local mentoring rings and communities where we can learn from each other and grow. We focus on having inclusive interactions that foster useful dialog. We are dedicated to the work of creating a strong, inclusive and transparent culture a safe place to do our best work!Job responsibilities:We d love to talk to you if you want to:

• Define crisp product design direction for your areas, which include work for growing Viva Connections and also creating other new experiences based on the SharePoint platform.
• Collaborate with partner design, research, product management, marketing and engineering teams around the company and globe, leveraging partnerships for diverse perspective on our products. (10-25% travel)
• Work proactively through the ambiguity of new product definition, the application of new and emerging technologies and ensure the resulting experiences are human, beautifully-crafted and delightful to customers.
• Provide senior level thought leadership in design areas including concepting and prototyping, interaction, working with research, information architecture and navigation, structured content, visual systems, and content patterns.
• Lead by example with clean, focused and inspiring work, designing through all phases of the product cycle. Conceptualize and design original ideas that bring simplicity and ease of use to complex design issues.
• Contribute to broaden design team creative processes, team building, and our strong cultural values around diversity, inclusion, transparency and growth mindset.
• Drive for excellence while never losing sight of the human side of the equation and what it means to be a great leader and partner.

, Job qualifications:

• 8+ years experience of product design with a minimum of 6 years experience with online services. All candidates must send a portfolio or work samples along with their inquiries. Please indicate your specific roles and contributions for each project submitted as part of the portfolio.
• Strong command of all aspects and levels of interaction/UX design from information architecture, to systems and workflows to micro-interactions.
• Strong collaboration abilities. Proven ability to drive, inspire, grow and nurture partnerships.
• User-centric approach to design and an understanding of how to apply user research data.
• Ability to create, prototype and present design stories that articulate the desired user experience to the project team and stakeholders and influence product direction and decisions.
• Excellent verbal/ written communication and presentation skills. Storyteller extraordinaire. Strong presentation skills that convince diverse audiences to act.
• Passion for design and ability to effectively share your point of view and expertise with project team members.
• Active thought leadership in user experience issues and trends, experience with accessible and inclusive design.
• Proficient with current design software. Willingness to adopt new tools and workflows. (We mainly use Figma in case you were wondering, but it s easy to learn if you don t already know it!)
• A working understanding of web technologies and experience with agile engineering methods is essential
• Bachelors/Master s degree in product design, HCI, interaction design, industrial design, communication design, architecture, or equivalent experience

Keyskills :
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