Microsoft Looking For Senior Product Designer at Redmond, WA Full Time

Are you interested in working on a cutting-edge business that understands and values your work and sees user experience, customer experience, and service design as key strategic priorities? Join us as a product designer on Power BI, the next generation business intelligence with AI in the cloud. Power BI is one of the fastest growing SaaS services at Microsoft and we empower millions of business users in organizations around the planet to achieve more with their data.

In this role you’ll make sure every person can use our tools and services by being the dedicated voice of accessible design in our team. You’ll work with, educate, and mentor other designers to make sure new features meet accessibility standards, review components as they get added to our design libraries, and work with product managers and engineers to address accessibility issues with existing features. You will help set a vision and strategy to weave accessible design into the team fabric.

Our agile environment will be a good fit for you if you are:
Thoughtful — You’re thoughtful and deliberate in your choices and able to articulate your thinking on the fly across a cross-functional team, and occasionally, conflicting priorities and objectives.

Persuasive — 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 bring their ideas and concerns on the table.

About the team

Our new UX group is part of one of the larger Design Studios at Microsoft which is reshaping the digital experiences for modern cloud-based data solutions and services. The team is comprised of widely talented and diverse individuals with interesting backgrounds and sometimes perplexing passions. It’s an environment where creativity and innovation thrive, and where you can be a part of the digital transformation of business intelligence. From our perspective, this is the moment to join; we are ready to grow, positioned to win and will be the next big design team that others wish they were part of.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Designer on the Power BI team, you will:
Assess the accessibility of existing product experiences and clearly communicate potential accessibility issues to designers, product managers, and engineers.

Collaborate with other designers to create accessible library components.

Partner with accessibility teams in other parts of the company to share learnings and drive consistent accessible design.

Develop insights based on customer research, cultural trends and turn them into clear feature briefs and inspiring designs

Validate designs using a variety of customer driven methods, communicate research findings and design rationale both verbally and visually

Provide continuing design support to engineering crews during software development, to ensure a high-quality user experience

Contribute to design team efforts such as organizing and running idea sessions, producing mood-boards and vision videos, storyboarding, brainstorming, building user scenarios and developing concept sketches

Evangelize, mentor and teach others to reach beyond existing solutions and technologies to incorporate new ideas.

Learn and apply successful strategies; implement improvements to engineering methods and quality practices across the product or portfolio.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Design (or related field) or equivalent professional experience

5+ years’ industry experience in interactive design, visual design, and/or information architecture.

Demonstrated breadth across IA, usability, IxD, and visual design

The ability to quickly turn around rigorous wireframes and mockups 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.

Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Adobe products, Figma, Framer, etc.

Experience designing user experiences for enterprise software/services for desktop, tablet and mobile form factors.

An up-to-date portfolio showcasing your end-to-end product design experience is essential for this role (focus on accessible design, particularly where simplicity and ease of use were a major concerns).

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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