Senior UX Designer

Empowering Innovation through Design

At Microsoft, we're committed to empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. As a Senior UX Designer, you'll play a critical role in helping us achieve this mission by designing world-class AI and cloud-driven experiences across M365 apps that empower our diverse and global enterprise user base.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the M365 Core Design Studio, where you'll work closely with cross-discipline partners to envision and execute product direction in your area. You'll use your passion, professionalism, and creativity to create unique, fresh, and innovative product solutions across our product suite.

Responsibilities

• Deliver World-Class Interaction Designs
  • Develop end-to-end interaction designs from incubation through to shipping product.
• Drive Design Collaboration
  • Help organize and drive design collaboration (sprints, ideations, brainstorms) with cross-discipline partners (PM, Engineering, Research and Data Science).
• Align and Deliver Product Vision
  • Collaborate with Design and Engineering partners to align and deliver a crafted product vision end-to-end.
• Communicate Effectively
  • Create clarity and generate energy for your product and product teams through powerful storytelling.
• Mentor and Develop Junior Designers
  • Mentor and develop junior designers, helping them to grow their skills and advance their careers.
• Stay Current with Design Trends
  • Stay current on design trends, technologies, and tools, and incorporate them into the design team's work as appropriate.

Requirements

• Education and Experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, 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, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 4+ years 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).
• Design Expertise
  • 5+ years of hands-on interaction design experience for large-scale product, including experience with information architecture, interaction design, UX/UI, user research, and usability testing.
  • Expertise in creating a variety of interaction design documents such as storyboarding, wireframing, design specifications and redlines, user scenarios, task flows, conceptual models, competitor analysis, heuristic analysis.
  • Proficiency in creating high-craft presentations and communication with senior audiences.
• Preferred Qualifications
  • Possess the ability to think conceptually about design and information architecture.
  • Understand the array of technical constraints, user goals and business requirements that shape current and future products.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills that drive compelling conversations and clear presentations. Fluent in English.
  • Solid organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to self-motivate under constant deadline constraints.
  • Ability to prototype design concepts in a variety of tools.
  • Knowledge of current web tech (React, JS, HTML, CSS etc.).
  • Experience designing for AI or LLMs.