Product Design: Full Time Opportunities

We are seeking a highly creative Product Designer with a Bachelor’s degree in design, who has graduated and possesses a portfolio showcasing their final project. The ideal candidate should have up 1+ years of experience post-graduation and be ready to contribute to our dynamic team.

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

Product Design

• Starts to estimate individual schedule (e.g., time requirements) for work delivery. Begins to define needs of product designs based on multiple factors such as user insights and business needs. Begins to help identify needs that are not spoken and raises them with senior team members. Supports team in developing a synthesis of user insights and compares with data to identify larger issues that may not be apparent for user desires.
• Assists in ideation meetings to improve product designs and generates ideas for a specific, isolated design element. Helps facilitate enrollment for an ideation exercise as part of a design sprint. Checks feasibility and usefulness of ideas with peers and product team representatives.
• Prototypes for new products as cheap and as fast as possible under the guidance of senior team members. Strives to make design look and feel like the real product. Helps present to teams (e.g., Design, Engineering) and/or customers to receive feedback and understand user needs. Uses digital and physical tools to demonstrate design to stakeholders and then gauge customer perceptions. Prototypes in accordance with company's brand and guidelines. Advocates for best-in-class tools.
• Collaborates with and answers questions from Engineering to aid in successful design implementation, and performs question-and-answer forums (QAs) to help them ensure "pixel perfect" or detailed designs. Works with developers to iterate further on designs during implementation to ensure optimal designs.
• Contributes to visual designs from concept to delivery under the guidance of senior team members. Facilitates the creative visual design process by producing the visual language for a product. Creates a variety of visual design documents including mood boards, storyboards, creative briefs, three-dimensional (3D) models, product renderings/visualizations, color and materials design, motion studies, iconography, illustrations, layouts, and redlines for an assigned product, tool, or service.
• Creates wireframes, journey maps, user jobs and scenarios, task flows, and personas in support of interaction designs for hardware and/or software-based experiences under the direction of a senior team member. Conceptualizes and delivers artifacts at various levels of fidelity. Participates in the development and enhancement of product user experience via creation of interaction models and detailed designs for new and existing product features. Assists others to help ensure that the designs of the products allow the user to complete the desired functions in the best possible manner.
  
  

Design Components

• Uses a prescribed design system (e.g., content templates, icons, form design, user-interface [UI] controls, navigation models, design trends). Shares learnings and collaborates with other designers to share education for team improvements.
  
  

Communication and Collaboration

• Conveys work to peers and managers within immediate team so that the audience understands. Begins to set context for stakeholders. Communicates in a professional and timely fashion.
• Works with a senior team member to create a compelling narrative for a specific product or feature and the customer. Explores new and interesting ways of telling stories (e.g., video illustrations, sound).
• Assists with fundamental tasks on projects with creative team members, program managers, and developers (e.g., the triad/quad) to define and iterate on new and existing product features. Participates on one study at a time and collaborates, creates, and helps the team deliver product design results.
  
  

Other

• Embody our culture and values
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field.
• A portfolio presenting the final project from your studies (please link it in your CV)
• 1+years of experience post-graduation.
• Proficiency in English
  
  

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• Proven record of innovative thinking and using design to drive new ideas.
• Strong communication and organizational skills 
• Experience creating design systems, style guides, component libraries, and technical frameworks.
• Firm grasp of Figma for design and prototyping
• You may include recommendations from your design educators within your application.
  
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.