Product Designer II
Overview
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.
Within Azure Data, the messaging and real-time analytics team provides comprehensive solutions and a robust platform that enables users to ingest high granularity signals (real-time & observability) and complex data, converting those into a competitive advantage in real-time for both end users and modern applications.
Data is the new currency of the digital world, and Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help business and consumers get the most out of theirs. With the leading technolies in the world and the rapidly growing Azure Data platform, Microsoft has made an enormous bet on cloud-based platform components that companies will need to derive knowledge and insights from big data and analytics in the cloud. Creative impact at this scale is rare and is an enormous opportunity for the right candidate.
You would be joining the Azure Data User Experience (ADUX) team as a Product Designer II. We’re looking for a Product Designer II whose work reflects a passion for helping people get the most from their data. We’re looking for colleagues who want to embrace complicated problems and have curiosity for exploring new product interaction paradigms. Ideal candidates would show an affinity for designing cohesive experiences across multiple complex back-end services, a sensible and thorough pursuit of user delight, and a track record for delivering thoughtful and impactful products and services.
If you have a thirst for solving complex design problems at all levels – from information architecture to interaction design to prototyping and high-fidelity mockups, are a comprehensive design leader who enjoys collaborating, and thinks conceptually and strategically about design we’re looking for you.
Come join us!
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design
- OR equivalent experience
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/Additional Qualifications:
- Effective communication, presentation and organizational skills – as this is an international team.
- System design skills, think conceptually about system design, present good problem solving skills, and exercise the ability to work well in a collaborative team environment.
- Understand the array of technical constraints, user goals and business requirements that shape a product.
- Demonstrate ability to work confidently with Program Management and Development.
- Proficiency with Figma and design systems with an understanding of rapid prototyping.
- Experience working within and contributing to a structured design system.
- Comprehensive organizational skills and an attention to detail.
Product Design IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $83,600 - CAD $159,600 per year.
Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 5, 2024
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Responsibilities
- Contribute to the continuing growth of a highly successful design team.
- Collaborate with other designers to ensure consistency across experiences.
- Communicate, document, and represent design direction to team members, senior management and key stakeholders.
- Ensure the experience vision is driven by a well-defined nucleus of user needs, tasks, and business requirements.
- Work with design, development and program management teams to ensure interaction and visual designs communicate and function successfully for varying technical and performance specifications.
- Work with user researchers to coordinate testing efforts, interpret test results, and incorporate results into design efforts.
- Effectively communicate with developers through implementation phase to realize design vision.
- Embody our culture and values