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SalaryDo you enjoy designing innovative cutting-edge solutions and love to build and deliver high quality products? Do you like working through a collaborative process while being a champion of design thinking through ideation, storyboards, wireframes, visual studies, and the development of interactive prototypes?
The Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers looking to leverage the latest technologies to address their toughest challenges. We work closely with our customers’ engineers to jointly innovate and develop designs for cloud-based solutions that can accelerate their organization. We work in collaboration with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to empower our customers to do more with the cloud. We pride ourselves on making contributions to open source and making our platforms easier to use.
We are hiring a SeniorProduct Designer with experience in designing and developing concepts that optimize the emotional and functional experience of a product, software, device, or service. With your team, you will be working side-by-side with high-impact and strategic customers and their engineers to build visual, interactive, and impactful designs. As part of our team, you will thrive in working with a variety of technologies, not just Microsoft technology. You will solve exciting business problems, produce compelling product stories, and collaborate with Microsoft product teams.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Leads complex product design initiatives from user insights to end-to-end experiences and communicates the value to leadership.
- Owns, as a gatekeeper and reviewer, the use and adoption of latest design system (e.g., content templates, icons, form design, user-interface [UI] controls, navigation models, design trends) updates in the industry and/or making a case for acquiring the system. Helps others use the system and drives consistency, alignment, and standards across multiple teams.
- Communicates effectively with leadership and cross-disciplinary teams through all stages of design and development. Cultivates and evangelizes product story to inspire excitement and support.
- Leads collaboration with creative team members, program managers, and developers to define and iterate on product features. Influences stakeholders across disciplines and connects dots between teams for optimal product designs.
- Directs others to generate ideation solutions for complex products (e.g., involving many constraints, needing workarounds, requiring holistic view of interconnected systems) to improve product designs. Brings diverse teams together and provides input on the strategic utilization of a variety of perspectives when ideating (e.g., business, experience, technology). Synthesizes complex ideation solutions to a concise articulation of user wants and subsequent solutions.
- Provides oversight and design guidance to the team of developers. Ensures full understanding of the original design and vision, and links to established problem and/or goal. Mentors designers in all areas of ownership. Influences those outside of design. Has expertise and leadership in the craft of design. Acts a steward of creative work across their team. Interviews and screens candidates.
- Handles resource and budget management for a product team (e.g., scoping projects, making the case for headcount, allocating resources, facilitating team members' relationships)
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Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design
- OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design
- OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).
- 3+ years experience with broad multi-platform design and development such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Mobile, Desktop and Cloud, or related.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design
- OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design
- OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).
- 4+ years experience shipping games or products and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.
- Experience in 3D spatial design leveraging 3D engines such as Unreal and Unity.
- Experience working as part of geographically dispersed and virtual teams.
- Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%.
Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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
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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
