Studio W is a creative community of designers and researchers on a mission to create and deliver holistic customer experiences while imagining the post-search future. Between Edge, Bing, and apps, we’re creating end to end web experiences from shopping, to search, to ads, news, sports, and gaming. Our diverse team works collaboratively to create products and ideas that empower us to move fast to build seamless and delightful experiences for billions of customers worldwide.
We’re building a culture based on learning and creating meaningful experiences for our customers. We are seeking multi-skilled product designers with a mastery of visual design, experience design, interface construction, branding, and storytelling. We’re looking for a designer who’s driven by empathy for customers, and the desire to carry ideas from rough ideas to launch. The right candidate works independently and is a passionate collaborator with other design teams, engineering teams and marketing groups.
Within this studio, the Microsoft Start team is looking for a Senior Product Designer who can craft intuitive interfaces that encourage our users to actively connect with news content and participate in discussions to create a sense of community amongst our audience. More generally, this designer thrives at the intersection of user-focused innovation, system thinking and business acumen, as we integrate AI across Microsoft products, and to provide people with an assistive experience and the critical information they need to be productive, informed and inspired.
Finally, this designer defaults to a making and building mindset – when in doubt we build something and test it. Embracing quick prototyping and testing is critical to sucess in this role. You can learn more about the team at http://wxcteam.microsoft.com
If you’re passionate about technology, have a knack for creative ideas, and lead with a growth mindset, we want to hear from you!
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

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).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years experience working in product or service design
• Demonstrated sense of interaction design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design
• Excellent visual design skills with keen attention to details
• Excellent communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas
• Proficiency in Figma, creating interaction design flows as well as UI kits (working knowledge of Tokens, Variables, Variants, Protyping, etc)
• Partnering with engineering to deliver cross-platform UI assets
• Working with teams across complex product ecosystems
• Working at the intersection of Gen AI, design systems and product making which will in turn transform human-computer interactions, and to advance an existing product to the next level
• Making product decisions driven by qualitative and quantitative insights
  Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $104,000 - CAD $193,200 per year.
  Find additional pay information here:
  https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
  Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 17, 2024
  

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• Contributes to design’s direction for area of accountability and executes design set by others
• Leads design on a product with moderate to high visibility, risk, and/or complexity
• Holds bar for craft across Design, Product Management and Engineering within a major product area
• Contributes and partners with other major area leaders to ensure product coherence, erasing organizational boundaries from the experience
• Embraces and lead across all of culture models (e.g., demonstrates customer obsession)
• Contributes to broader studio culture (e.g., mentorship, onboarding buddy, team morale, Employee Resource Groups/clubs)
• Understands and acts upon their role in creating a Diverse and Inclusive workplace at Microsoft
• Balances actively working on the details and finding time to step back at the bigger picture of the product
• Crafts a story around the WHAT, WHY and HOW for their ideas, while demonstrating via work rather than just words
• Embody our culture and values.