Microsoft is a company where 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 in a cloud-enabled world.

Within Azure Data, the big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Warehouse, Data Engineering, Data Science and AI pillars of Microsoft Fabric.

​​Data is the new currency of the digital world, and Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help businesses and consumers get the most out of theirs. Creative impact at this scale is rare and will be an enormous opportunity for the Product Designer II coming into this role.

The Synapse Analytics UX team is looking for a Product Designer II whose work reflects a passion for helping people get the most from their data. This person is energized by tackling complicated problems and curious about exploring new product interaction paradigms. The ideal candidate shows 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 are motivated by solving complex design problems at all levels, from information architecture to interaction design, prototyping, and creating high-fidelity mockups, and if you are a designer who enjoys collaboration and strategic thinking about user experience, we are looking for you!

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• ​​Contribute to the continued growth of a structured and 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, marketing 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

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 (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).

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

• 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 3+ 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).

• 2+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.​

Product Design IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $120,900 - $198,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 3, 2024.

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