Senior Experience Designer

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

Are you interested in solving huge problems that face global industries? Are you excited to understand the data, systems architecture, and organizational challenges companies face, and inform and create solutions focused on experience design? Are you energized by using your insights to problem solve, and create prototypes that use cutting-edge technologies? If so, then this research design role is for you!Our multidisciplinary team is a part of the global Microsoft Enterprise Sales team. We partner across the company to produce high-value business solutions prototypes that solve industry and customer problems. We leverage design research, iterative design, and rapid prototyping methods to develop customizable architectures and solutions that demonstrate our offerings directly to customers and are used on a global scale.This role is responsible for the design strategy, day to day design activities, design deliverables and quality of assets the team produces. This person provides direction and leadership while still producing visual and UI designs for projects.Does this describe you?You are a passionate leader that likes to direct, mentor, and support team members with a broad range of skills and experience, as they deliver high-quality designs. You also contribute directly to projects.You are capable of forecasting project needs and managing design resourcesYou work well in ambiguous situations, and ground your approach in the customer challenges andopportunities made possible by innovative solutionsYou are comfortable with narrative design and storytelling and can impact your teams' outcomes when you pitch and land new ideas and approachesYou are interested in the challenges that face Enterprise companies and industries, and the cloud solutions, and emerging technologies that can address these challengesYou are comfortable seeking and taking feedback, and transforming the input into actionable opportunities for the teamYou have a growth mindset and enjoy learning and trying new things.For example, you demonstrate openness and acceptance to others ideasYou contribute to the design of systems and tools that aid innovation and motivate others to generate innovative ideasYou thrive when you take on challenges and support ambiguous work to create clarity and generate actionable work items for the team.You find the path to the future when it is not clearYou have excellent interpersonal skills and extraordinary organizational skills and self managementYou thrive in a dynamic work environment and want to make the biggest impact possible for the customerResponsibilitiesLead and direct the day-to-day design work and design assets produced by the team. Forecast resource needs and timing throughout the course of a project, and remove obstacles.Lead and support others in scoping customer challenges, identifying key issues, inputs, stakeholders, and prioritized outcomes, with a quality-based approachLearn and apply successful strategies from one industry to another, and establish design and development processes and methodsEffectively work and communicate across various Microsoft teams and disciplines to understand business objectives, and continuously ensure that the teams prototypes and architecture designs accurately represent customer needs and solution capabilities.Ensure that design work is delivered on-time and at qualityContribute to the success of the team and projects by producing unique designs and assetsQualificationsQualifications and Skills5+ years of customer-led design experience, with 2+ years as team leaderVisual and UI design tools and systems experienceDesign research and UX designexperienceRapid prototyping development experienceExcellent interpersonal skills (written, oral, social)Extraordinary organizational skills and self-managementProven track record of pitching and landing new approaches and ideasMulti-disciplinary team and collaboration experienceBonus ExperienceVisual, graphic, and UI design experienceExperience designing cross-platform solutionsCustomer engagement and design workshop experienceEnterprise systems and interface design experienceR&D development experienceAugmented Reality, Virtual Reality, IoT, AI, cloud computing use case experience#ECCTOMicrosoft 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 (.Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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