Job Description

Senior UX Designer

Are you interested in working on a cutting-edge business serving almost a billion customers? Our vision is to create professional, seamless, and low-friction experiences that enable consumers and workers to accomplish more. In this role, you will have the opportunity to solve complex, primarily mobile, interaction problems with elegance and simplicity. The role's broad scope within the Identity Division at Microsoft will give you ample room to flex your design muscles--both on projects that have immediate impact on the business as well as explorations that shape our long-term strategy, vision and UX direction.

Other success factors for designers in our agile environment:

* Thoughtfulness -- You're thoughtful and deliberate in your choices and able to articulate that on the fly across a cross-functional team, and occasionally, conflicting priorities and objectives.
* Inclusive -- You are an active listener with courage and positive intent. You are always curious and constantly learning.
* Sales intelligence + persuasion skills -- You've got the social intelligence and sales skills to understand (or explain) what needs to be changed, and why. You use criticism to spur insightful conversations, not a reason to be defensive or shut down.
* A translator of tradeoffs -- There's no perfect interface and no right answer. You're able to create different options and translate the tradeoffs between them in the context of business objectives.
* A facilitator -- You know how to collaborate with others and let them put their concerns on the table.

Portfolio

A strong portfolio is critical for this role, both in terms of demonstrating your experience and as an example of your ability to create a compelling design presentation. Showcase your experience in UX and interaction design, particularly where simplicity and ease of use were a major concern. We'd like to see a diversity of projects, but be careful that your portfolio doesn't get scattered or overly long -- focus on curation and quality to choose a solid collection of outcomes and design intermediaries and deliverables (especially flows, mockups, and prototypes), and be sure the portfolio demonstrates the design and thought process behind each image.

Requirements:

* Design degree or equivalent experience plus 5+ years' industry experience in interactive design, visual design, and/or information architecture, with an emphasis on optimizing mobile experiences
* Demonstrated breadth across information architecture, usability, interaction design, and visual design
* Ability to create both lo-fi and highly polished design prototypes, mockups, and other communication artifacts, and to know when to create which
* The ability to quickly create prototypes quickly in a fast-paced, iterative environment and proven ability to work with data from customers
* The ability to scope and estimate efforts accurately, prioritize tasks and goals independently, and rapidly produce deliverables
* Proficiency in a variety of design and prototyping tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud Suite
* Proficiency in a variety of prototyping tools
* Lead research activities or discussion.

Desirable skills & experience:

* Experience designing user experiences for enterprise software/services for mobile, tablet, and desktop form factors
* Experience with UI design principles and patterns and design languages like Microsoft's Fluent design system
* Skills with HTML, JavaScript, CSS a bonus

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.

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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