Product Designer 2

Overview

At Microsoft, we believe in the transformational power of design: Innovation only happens when we make things simple and fluid, and the UX disappears behind the achievements of our customers. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for a designer who’s driven by empathy for customers, and the need to know how to serve them better. And we need you right now, because we’re building some of the fastest-growing, highest-impact technologies in the world today.

MCI is an exciting organization driving innovation and leadership across multiple industries including energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and sustainability. MCI delivers an industry ecosystem anchored across the Microsoft Cloud.

Our team is building a variety of experiences and solutions for the industry cloud, bringing together capabilities across Microsoft to enable our partner ecosystem deliver differentiated customer experiences, improve employee collaboration and productivity, manage risk, and modernize core business systems.

You’ll design experiences that solve complex interactions with elegance and simplicity. The role’s broad scope will give you ample room to flex your design muscles—both on projects that have immediate impact on the Industry Cloud business as well as explorations that shape our long-term strategy, vision and UX direction.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

The role

You understand how to bring a team together to solve difficult product and customer problems, fixing what's not quite right and smoothing the customer’s journey through the product. You to find ways to reduce the number of screens, remove the extraneous, drive users to the next screen or next step, and shorten the path to “Wow”

In our team, we believe in the power of inclusion, diversity of ideas, skills, backgrounds, work/life balance, and the joy of solving challenging problems together.

**Responsibilities**:
**Responsibilities**:
As a designer on our team, you will:

- Deliver design and innovation across one or more facets of the design process, including sketching, prototyping, storyboarding, information architecture, interaction design, and usability.
- Use and contribute to Microsoft’s design patterns.
- Partner closely with PM and Engineering counterparts and work in an iterative manner, scoping and prioritizing work across multiple projects.
- Be an advocate for the user and champion industry-leading, inclusive, and user-centered design practices.

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**:
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in design (e.g., user experience, HCI, graphic) or equivalent professional experience
- At least 5 years of work experience
- Strong practical knowledge of user-centered design methods and usability principles
- Experience working on a multi-disciplinary team of designers, PMs, and developers
- Track record of creating or improving product user experience
- Ability to think creatively and critically about design problems
- Demonstrated ability to create design solutions from ambiguous and complex concepts
- Enthusiasm for an iterative design process
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present your work to peers across disciplines
- Fluent in current design tools (Figma, Adobe CC, etc.)
- Customer research driven
- Experience designing for enterprise products, specifically of a commerce or consumer goods industry.
- Familiarity with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)

Bonus qualifications
- Experience producing functional prototypes, motion studies, and interface models

A portfolio review presentation is required to interview for this role. Your presentation should communicate your work experience and demonstrate your design and communication skills.

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