Are you a product focused Senior Interaction Designer who’s designed business applications and experiences across the web and mobile? This could be the role for you!
Microsoft’s Cloud + AI Design Studios is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to join the Power Platform | Power Apps design team – where they will plan, lead, and help drive the experience for features across the platform.
At Microsoft, we have a clear mission and bold ambitions: Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more through our technology and innovation. To make that a reality, our Power Platform | Power Apps team is charged with crafting solutions that help customers transform their companies—whether they want to empower employees, engage customers, optimize their operations, or change the very nature of their product or business model. We also play an integral role in the success of Dynamics 365 product teams enabling their customers business partners.
Our Vision As a Design Studio
- Design experiences customers love.
- Work as a unified team.
- Deliver success.
- Become even better every day.
In this role, you will design products with a broad charter that impacts creators, developers, admins, and end-users. The role will involve working closely with external partners and multi-disciplinary teams in the planning and development of innovative features and capabilities that integrate with the Microsoft Power Platform, Power Apps and Dynamics 365 products. You need to be able to design powerful solutions whilst collaborating across these various groups while maintaining a focus on the coherence of the product and designing a system that forms the basis of the platform. You will work with other designers, Product Managers, and engineers to create forward-thinking designs that are user scenario driven, meet business goals and ultimately serve customer needs. At the core of this job, you will identify user-centered design patterns, establish scenarios, place designs into user context and create interactions that align to those requirements.
Responsibilities
You’re a UX designer who loves to learn, solve challenges, and dream up breakthrough ideas. You’re a tireless advocate for the customer—enthusiastic about building and iterating on designs to discover what works best and applying your knowledge to create incredible software products. You're passionate about your interests, and you want to work on projects that will change the world for the better.
You understand how to bring a team together to solve difficult product and customer problems, fixing what's not quite right and smoothing the customer’s journey through the product. You find ways to reduce complexity, remove the extraneous, and shorten the path to “Wow!”
You're fluent at communicating with product managers and developers as well as influencing your team and studio to simplify, integrate, and co-create successful customer experiences that work together. And you’re comfortable influencing others around how we all want the same thing, what that thing is, and why you think the team has landed a solution that will help make the Power Platform a suite of applications that customers will love.
Qualifications
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).
Other Requirements:
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A unique ability to create UX strategies and solutions from the customer point of view.
- Team collaborator who delivers highly usable and compelling customer experiences through HCD.
- Disciplined user of research data and insights to drive decisions and measure success.
- Ability to plan and execute end-to-end product design with minimal support.
- Understanding of UX’s role in the application development process.
- Possess a bias toward action.
- Proficient at influencing for impact.
- Experience with Sketch, Figma (preferred), Adobe XD and related tools.
- Evangelist of UX among partner teams to raise product quality.
- Inclusive design is embraced as a challenge, not a limitation.
- Bias towards simplification of information architecture.
- Understanding and applying customer feedback, research, and telemetry to the design process.
Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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