Senior Designer
at Microsoft
Mexico, Pampanga, Philippines -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 18 Nov, 2024 | Not Specified | 22 Aug, 2024 | 4 year(s) or above | English,Design Skills,Product Strategy,Business Planning,Communication Skills,Human Computer Interaction,Demonstration,Product Design,Industrial Design,Features,Html,Design Thinking,It,Design | No | No |
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Description:
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. If you join the M365 Core Design Studio, you will help contribute to this mission by designing world-class AI and cloud-driven experiences across M365 apps that empower our diverse and global enterprise user base. This work involves building upon classic interaction design as well as pioneering new ways to interact with product through AI. You will help to deliver deep customer value across M365 products inclusive of Windows, Edge, Copilot and our core productivity suite. M365 Core Design Studio fosters a healthy incubation culture that embraces ambiguity, moves with agility, and emphasizes human value at the center of all product thinking. We seek candidates that champion inclusiveness and deep collaboration through curiosity, compassion, and humility.
As a Senior Designer, you will play a central role in mentoring the team, creating a positive work environment, and an inclusive culture. You will partner with technology and business counterparts to deliver thoughtful, integrated design solutions through hands-on work and by defining/driving responsibilities of individual team members. You will be expected to deliver clarity across a complex and shifting product landscape, using best-in-class storytelling capabilities, deep problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to simplify complex ideas into well-articulated concepts that express customer needs and motivations.
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.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 4+ years of experience working in product or service design
- OR Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years of experience working in product or service design
- OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).
- 8+ years design experience leading product and product areas end-to-end with multidisciplinary partners.
- 5+ years people management experience, leading large scale product design teams and coaching/mentoring designers.
- Demonstration of strong interaction and visual design skills, with deep experience in related tools and processes.
- Examples of establishing a product focus and executing on it, in new and ambiguous environments, and/or with undefined product areas and features.
- Ability to work in fast and agile environments and pivot thinking in reaction to changing business and industry needs.
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills that drive compelling conversations and clear presentations. Fluent in English.
- Experience influencing product strategy at executive leadership levels.
- Portfolio review required.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Ability to prototype design concepts in a variety of tools.
- Knowledge of current web tech (React, JS, HTML, CSS etc.).
- Aligning design planning with business planning.
- Experience with AI or LLM’s.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver world-class interaction designs end-to-end from incubation through to shipping product.
- Facilitate and drive design collaboration (sprints, ideations, brainstorms) with cross-discipline partners (PM, Engineering, Research and Data Science).
- Build and manage long-term partnerships with Microsoft product teams to create shared goals to deliver on business impact with an emphasis on healthy and deep cross-team collaboration.
- Influence product direction through strategic design thinking and exceptional storytelling.
- Carve out clarity from ambiguity and land on key product investment areas alongside PM and Engineering partners.
- Build a healthy and inclusive design culture within your team, ensure manageable workloads, help guide and mentor those who report to you and empower team members to deliver world-class design work.
- Help drive career growth and satisfaction of those reporting to you.
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:4.0Max:8.0 year(s)
Graphic Design/Web Design
IT Software - Application Programming / Maintenance
Web Development
Graduate
Product or service design
Proficient
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Mexico, Philippines