Product Designer

Overview

We are a team of UX professionals spanning Product Design, UX Research, Content Design, and UX Engineering. Together with our PM and Engineering partners, we create product experiences that are trusted, human-centered, and easy to use, enabling our users to manage, protect, and secure their digital environments with peace of mind.

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Data Security, Compliance, Governance, and Privacy are some of the most significant concerns for enterprises today. Microsoft Purview has been building momentum in this space over recent years and established ourselves as market leaders in most categories. As part of our evolution, we are innovating at a rapid pacedesigning new experiences that span from the security professional to the consumer.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field
• OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
• Proficient expertise with Figma

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 2+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 1+ year experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
• 1+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.

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The 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.

Responsibilities

Product Designer

• Defines needs of product designs as the owner for a set of experiences/products based on multiple factors such as user insights and business needs. Identifies needs that are not spoken and includes them in end-to-end design plan and process. Begins to develop a synthesis of user insights and compares with data to identify larger issues that may not be apparent for user desires. Collaborates with product owners and development team members to shepherd end-to-end experiences from concept to ship for products.
• Leverages ideation methodologies and generates ideation solutions to improve product design outcomes. Utilizes a variety of perspectives when ideating (e.g., business, experience, technology). Synthesizes ideation solutions into a concise articulation of user insights and subsequent solutions. Facilitates ideation exercise as part of a design sprint.
• Prototypes for new products and features as efficiently as fast as possible. Presents to teams (e.g., Design and Engineering) and/or customers to receive feedback and understand user needs.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders (team, Engineering, PM, User Research, etc.) to successfully align design solutions to business, technical, and user requirements. Collaborates with Engineering to ensure implemented designs align to design specifications. Works with developers to iterate further on designs during implementation to ensure optimal designs. Develops an aptitude on limitations of what is implementable and begins to challenge limitations.
• Uses a prescribed design system (e.g., content templates, icons, form design, user-interface [UI] controls, navigation models, design trends). Shares learnings and collaborates with other designers to share education for team improvements.
• Conveys work to peers and managers within their studio team(s) so that the audience understands. Sets context for stakeholders. Helps organize communication with cross-disciplinary teams inside and across through all stages of design and development. Owns communication for what one is doing in a proactive way.
• Recognizes and communicates the user needs to team members and recommends ideas to create a compelling narrative for the product.
• Facilitates fundamental tasks on projects with creative team members, program managers, and developers (e.g., the triad/quad) to define and iterate on new and existing product features. Participates in one or more studies at a time and collaborates, creates, and helps the team deliver product design results. Influences team members in support of product design impact. Leverages the work of others. Contributes to the success of others.