Do you put human needs and motivations at the center of your design thinking? Do you like solving tough technical problems through collaboration, strong design thinking, and excellent visual design skills? Do you see technology as a tool for amplifying and enhancing the things that make us human--giving us superpowers? The Microsoft 365 Admin Design Studio is a team of multidisciplinary designers working to make technology that integrates seamlessly into the human world. We’re at the forefront of making the next generation of management software for businesses across the world – and we are hiring!

Our studios are large, modern, open, spaces where designers, managers, and producers work collaboratively to craft experiences that integrate content, software, hardware, and services. Interaction, motion, and visual designers team up to share ideas and work on Microsoft 365, the future of how Microsoft will empower businesses across the world. Every studio partners with top-notch teams of program managers, developers, producers, and researchers who advise on release dates, technological challenges, and customer feedback. If coding constraints are just another piece of the design puzzle for you, and you're excited about expanding your design skills across visual, interaction, and motion design--we want to talk to you.

This role is in the Microsoft 365 Admin Design Studio, and responsible for evolving and extending the Microsoft 365 experience to modern workplace endpoint management and security. Microsoft Endpoint Manager is Microsoft’s industry-leading endpoint management solution that enables users and protects data across mobile devices, PC desktops and mobile applications. Your work will provide our enterprise admins and customers with rich, streamlined and intuitive experiences, as well as alignment across productivity tools promoting a more modern and efficient approach to management and security.

Responsibilities

• You’re a strong UX designer who loves to learn, solve challenges, and take breakthrough ideas to turn them into meaningful experiences. You’ve worked on a variety of projects to propel the vision and roadmap from conception until release.
• You spearhead design thinking, inspire and work collaboratively with design and product leadership, fellow designers.
• 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 incredibly simple, elegant and thoughtful designs.
• You're fluent at communicating, and comfortable influencing others and building consensus around design direction.

Qualifications

• All designers on the team must have a clear understanding of each phase of the design process: information architecture + interaction design, research + usability, rapid prototyping, visual + motion design, and brand integration. You will be expected to broaden your technical understanding as new technologies emerge, and you'll get the chance to apply it and your growing design expertise as roles in and across the studios evolve.
• 5+ years (post education) related UX design experience in product, company or agency. Preferably with experience working on complex business applications/productivity experiences.
• A BA/BS or higher degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Communication Arts, or field related degree.
• Deep knowledge and application of user-centered philosophies and interaction design best practices
• Strong command of visual design capabilities, including composition, layout information hierarchy, typography, color, animation and motion.
• Proven experience and solid working knowledge of information architecture, task-flow models, state-transition diagrams, storyboarding, wire framing, creating design specifications and guidelines.
• Self-motivated, directed, and independent
• Have a passion for quality, innovation, and world-class design.

A portfolio demonstrating breadth and creativity and proven experience in telling stories, building UI models, generating detailed wire frames, developing prototypes and delivering comprehensive specifications. Please indicate your specific roles and contributions for each project submitted as part of the portfolio.

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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