Product Designer

We are looking for a thoughtful, talented product designer to join a new team focused on helping to spark creativity & collaboration wherever problems are being solved. What are we up to’ The description for every job in the future will be ‘Solve hard problems in small groups’, the rest will be automated. Creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking is the new pedagogy in primary and secondary education worldwide. Our current digital tools don’t support the job of the future, which will be focused on collaborative creativity. Our aim is to make new tools that do.

Who we’re looking for:
You are passionate about creating beautiful, crafted, meaningful interfaces and interactions with clarity and precision. You understand the critical role that interaction design plays as part of user experience. You think about the big picture, cross-device and cross-platform scenarios, and most importantly, the user from concept to execution. You have a strong grounding in a user centered design process and leverage research insights to identify important user needs, explore and iterate to define possible solutions to those problems and then validate your designs with users. You collaborate well with team members across multiple disciplines from Design, Engineering, and Business to understand the opportunities and right problems to solve for, and then find elegant, practical solutions. You have a pixel-perfect attention to detail in your process and the implementation of your work in the finished product. Your dedication to craftsmanship in product is of the highest order. You’re a clear and articulate communicator. You’re deliberate about your design approach, and you rely on feedback from the team and users to iterate. You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You’re ready to take ownership of the design of a complex, growing product. You show great empathy for your audience. Your main consideration is the overall product experience. Everything you do will be to improve the lives of our users.

What you’ll do:

• Work with product managers to define what we should build.
• Create interactive mockups and lightweight prototypes to communicate and validate design decisions.
• Participate in the design, observation, and analysis of user research.
• Work closely with engineers to ensure the design in implemented effectively and iterate in code to refine the design and respond to user feedback.

You should have:

• A current online portfolio. Please provide a link in your application.
• At least 1 year of experience designing and shipping software.
• Fluency with designing phone & larger screen experiences. Most of our users cross between multiple devices.
• A degree in Interaction Design, HCI or equivalent experience

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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to askstaff@microsoft.com.