We are looking for a Product Designer 2 to join our diverse and close-knit team. We design for a rapid growth, cutting-edge business that understands and values your work and sees user experience, customer experience, and service design as key strategic priorities. Your design passion will make an immediate impact within the Identity Division at Microsoft and influence a lasting impact on our customer experience. Our vision is to create professional, seamless, and friction-free experiences that enable our customers to work less and accomplish more. In this role, you will have the opportunity to showcase your talents to create experiences used by our diverse worldwide customers from Fortune 500 to SMB markets.
Our team is comprised of widely talented and diverse individuals with interesting backgrounds and provocative passions. It’s an environment where creativity and innovation thrive, teamwork is highly valued and where you can solve hard problems through collaboration with a wide range of peers and partners.
Responsibilities
- Deliver world-class design solutions from initial concept through finished product
- Incorporate system and framework thinking and pattern-matching into solutions to reinforce integrity of design system and product cohesion
- Provide insightful perspectives and ideas that will help shape the direction of company-wide investments in the identity space.
- Work closely and constructively with product management, content designers, user researchers, engineers and other designers to iterate and deliver design artifacts and solutions.
- Advocate for the customer and champion industry-leading, inclusive, and human-centered design practices.
- Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business, user goals, and ecosystem considerations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design
- OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).
Other Requirements:
- The ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in product design for highly complex systems
- Demonstrated breadth across interaction design, information architecture, usability
- Visual storytelling skills
- Hands-on experience creating detailed wireframes (both low and high fidelity), polished design prototypes and other design artifacts in a fast-paced environment
- Able to scope and estimate efforts accurately and prioritize workload independently
- Proficiency in a variety of design tools (especially Figma) and processes such as journey mapping and design sprints/workshops
- Experience designing user experiences for cloud software and services and/or IT professionals is a big plus
- Comfortable with ambiguity, design tradeoffs and shifting priorities
- Creative and holistic problem solver with a sharp eye for details
- Creating and applying established design principles and interaction patterns
- Experience using design components and pattern libraries
Product Design IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $120,900 - $198,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 1, 2024.