UX/Visual Designer II
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Overview
Do you want to help one billion people re-imagine what they should expect from software? The world is changing at an incredible pace, and technology can enable people to be more creative, productive, connected and secure than ever before. In the current global economic context, consumers and business owners need these capabilities more than ever – but they also have less time than ever to learn how software has evolved and how they should optimally use it. The User Lifecycle team is part of the worldwide multi-billion-dollar Microsoft 365 business. The team is at the core of transforming how a billion customers redefine expectations of productivity software, and how they get started using our modern apps and services.
We are looking for a well-rounded UX and Visual designer who can focus on Privacy experiences and M365 consumer experiences. We employ user scenarios to create meaningful experiences that bind the suite of products and value together. Our team uses deep customer research and understanding users’ needs, emotions, and behaviors to gather insights to inform our experience design strategy. Through research and experimentation, we build experiences focused on building a relationship that is meaningful, relatable, and impactful. We span each phase of the enterprise, small business and consumer user lifecycle from showing value and acquiring customers, onboarding and setup through to creating moments at the right time to encourage and promote engagement.
You demonstrate solid UX skills and interaction patterns as well as being able to bring the experiences alive with modern visuals. Being hands on, you will support and design breakthrough experiences that impact how millions of people use our products and services from day 1 through to advanced users in our system – free and paid. You will work closely with research, PM and dev as well as product marketing and app partners to meticulously execute ideas into production.
Please include URLs for an online portfolio demonstrating design process, UX flows, interaction patterns and visual design skills in addition to resume.
--- Submissions without a portfolio will not be considered. ---
If you have been searching for an opportunity to have a broad impact on Microsoft's plans for the future, this is the team to make that dream a reality.
Qualifications
- A portfolio demonstrating well thought through and polished end to end customer journeys
- 5+ years of industry experience in interactive design and/or visual design
- Demonstrated breadth across Information Architecture, Usability, Interaction, and Visual Design
- Ability to create highly polished visual design and prototypes
- The ability to quickly turn around wireframes and mockups in an iterative environment
- Bachelor's Degree in Design (or related field) or equivalent professional experience
- Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator
Desirable experience:
· Experience designing user experiences for enterprise software/services
· Experience creating and applying established design principles and interaction patterns
· Experience managing multi projects at the same time
· Experience aligning or influencing design thinking with teams working in other geographies
The successful candidate would be welcomed into an international working environment that is characterized by flexibility, an informal and collaborative atmosphere, and a fast pace. Microsoft ensures your work-life-balance, offers attractive salary packages and bonus programs and a modern office, which combines innovative technics with design. The applicant will also become part of the Microsoft European Development Centre (EDC) in Dublin – a vibrant multi-disciplinary collective driving Microsoft innovation for our customers worldwide. You can shape the local design team’s culture among a collaborative community including engineers, developers, data scientists, program managers, and others. It is the perfect nurturing ground for innovation and offers a fantastic landscape for growing your career across the breadth of Microsoft products and services. Microsoft Ireland has frequently featured as the top company for ‘Ireland’s best large workplace’.
Responsibilities
- Create and assess design solutions based on user research data, user goals, and business requirements
- Produce designs that illustrate optimal user experiences, deliverables may include storyboards, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and vision pieces.
- Work closely and constructively with product management, visual and interaction designers, engineers and user researchers across the globe to iterate and deliver flawlessly.
- Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business and user goals.
- Have solid IA and visual design skills
- Ability to travel for work occasionally
