Overview
The Viva Insights team is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join their Copilot Impact Dashboard team. This designer will demonstrate design thinking and strives to work across complex and spaces. Being hands on, you support and design breakthrough experiences that impact how millions of people use our products and services. Leading by example is a critical skill for this role, someone who wants to do design, help to tell our stories, and inspire our design team and our organization. You will be responsible for deep customer understanding through users' needs, emotions, and behaviors to gather insights that inform our experience design strategy. You will need to be able to communicate your ideas using a wide variety of methods-from telling a compelling story to providing sketches, to creating fully rendered designs. You will work closely with research, PM, and developers, as well as other design teams, Copilot teams, and app partners to meticulously execute ideas into production.
The Microsoft Viva Team
Employee engagement is undergoing a fundamental shift in response to economic, demographic, and societal changes. People want to be excited about their work, be connected to their company culture, understand how to succeed, utilize the latest advancements in AI, and feel supported across their entire journey as an employee. The Microsoft Viva team is run as a start-up, encouraging team members to share a sense of "founderism." Team members engage directly with customers, iterate rapidly, and focus on solving the needs of employees around the world and delivering innovative and connected employee engagement experiences.
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
- Deliver world-class interaction designs from initial concept through finished product
- Create and assess design solutions based on user research input, user goals, and business requirements
- Solve complex design problems in simple and intuitive ways that blend together brand personality, visuals, motion, and sound to create delightful experiences
- Produce design visualizations to help everyone understand what the experience should be: storyboards, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and vision pieces
- Work closely and constructively with product management, visual and interaction designers, editors, engineers, and user researchers to iterate and deliver flawlessly
- Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business and user goals
- Have the ability to travel for work occasionally
Other
- Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, 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, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design
- OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)
Preferred Qualificiations
- 5+ years' experience leading 0-1 design with a deep product thinking focus
- Experience designing analytics tools and dashboards
- Designing user experiences for enterprise software, services, and data analytics
- Portfolio is required; demonstrating design process, UX flows, interaction patterns and visual design skills
- Solid interpersonal and communication skills
- Awareness of trends in mobile, communications, and collaboration
- Ability to create highly polished design prototypes, mockups, and other communication artifacts
- Ability to scope and estimate efforts accurately and prioritize tasks and goals independently
- History of impacting shipping products with your work
- Proficiency in a variety of design tools, such as Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Sketch
- Creating and applying established design principles and interaction patterns
- Aligning or influencing design thinking with teams working in other geographies
Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 June 14, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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