Product Designer 2

Do you dream of working on products that matter? Does hearing the phrase "new product development" spark a glint in your eye, as you vividly imagine jumping into the fray and pitching your ideas? Do you delight in the thought of having robust user research at your fingertips and then applying these insights to refine and polish your work? Are you seeking a friendly, supportive team where every week we come together to pin up our work up on the (virtual) wall to discuss and learn?
If so, come be a part of our Microsoft Viva efforts!
About Microsoft Viva
Employee engagement is undergoing a fundamental shift in response to economic, demographic, and societal changes. People want to be excited about their work, be connected to their company culture, understand how to succeed, and feel supported across their entire journey as an employee. We are responsible for building and driving adoption of the platform and technologies that reach across major products like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Yammer, Stream, and Search to deliver innovative and connected employee engagement experiences.
What We Are Doing
We build experiences for the modern intranet and drive industry-leading offerings for Viva Topics. We love big challenges, and we work with a broad set of solutions to address key customer needs with outstanding experiences. Our employee engagement offerings are mission-critical for customers around the world; our usage is strong and growing, having doubled again this past year.
We are seeking a Product Designer with a track record for creating usable, seamless, elegant and impactful design solutions, deeply rooted in customer needs. This is an exceptional opportunity to reach hundreds of millions of people with your innovative and creative work. We approach our problem space with empathy for our customers as well as drive to innovate and evolve the product. We're building partnerships with teams across Microsoft, functioning as scenario and customer experts to create One Microsoft product solutions.
Join us!
This team supports our employees in all locations around the country. This job has the option to be remote or located in one of our hubs.Responsibilities

• Design elegant and delightful experiences for corporate communicators. (We mainly use Figma in case you were wondering, but it's easy to learn if you don't already know it.)
• Collaborate with partner design, research, product management, marketing and engineering teams around the company and globe, leveraging partnerships for diverse perspective on our products.
• Gather, corral, and synthesize multiple viewpoints to develop a holistic end-to-end experience that reflect established components and design patterns.
• Thrive in the ambiguity of new product definition and the application of new and emerging technologies.
• Contribute to Design thought leadership in areas including concepting, defining key workflows, developing information architecture and navigation, structured content, visual systems, and content patterns.
• Strive for clean, focused and inspiring solutions, designing through all phases of the product cycle. Conceptualize and design original ideas that bring simplicity and ease of use to complex design issues.
• Contribute to our broader design team's creative processes, as well as our strong cultural values around diversity, inclusion, transparency and growth mindset.
• Drive for excellence while never losing sight of the human side of the equation and what it means to be a great teammate and partner.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Product Design where you have actively taken a human-centric approach.
• A passion for incrementally growing your UX design chops through explorations in interaction design, information design, information architecture, defining workflows and customer journeys, storyboards, visual design and micro-interactions (don't worry, we don't expect you to be an expert but we are looking for you to be eager to learn more!).
• Enthusiasm in partnering and sharing your knowledge of the iterative design process with diverse team members including User Researchers, UX Engineers, Program managers, Software Engineers, customers and stakeholders.
• A working understanding of HTML and experience with agile engineering methods is essential (CSS skills would be a real bonus but not essential).
• A portfolio or work samples that illustrate(s) how you have contributed to ideating, prototyping, and refining pixel-perfect solutions while utilizing design system components (pro tip: please indicate your role/contributions in your work samples).

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
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