Senior UX Designer

Microsoft Cloud for Industry (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.

We're seeking a Senior UX designer who loves to learn, solve challenges, and dream up breakthrough ideas. You've worked on similar projects already, and you're looking for a new adventure. You’re a tireless advocate for the customer, enthusiastic about building and iterating on designs to discover what works best and applying your knowledge to create incredible software products. You're passionate about your interests, and you want to work on projects that will change the world for the better.

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 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

• 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 Product Management and Engineering counterparts and work in an iterative manner, scoping and prioritizing work across multiple projects, and demonstrating excellence in managing broad stakeholder groups.
• Have influence within the studio as we continue to mature and operationalize the design practice.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners - continually advocating for our users and delivering expertly crafted user experiences to market.
• Help champion user research to your engineering counterparts as an integral part of our process.
• Help define overall product vision and, as your expertise with Industry Clouds grows, you’ll increasingly be given ownership over major areas of investment and the autonomy to drive design innovation.
• Use your skills as a storyteller to build understanding and persuade others to join the cause.
• Be an advocate for the user and champion industry-leading, inclusive, and user-centered design practices.

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).

Other Requirements

• 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

• 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
• Aptitude for navigating an iterative design process
• 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)
• Experience producing functional prototypes, motion studies, and interface models.

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 .

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