Designer II
Redmond, WA 
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Posted 12 days ago
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OverviewThe Windows Experiences team is a creative community of designers and researchers on a mission to create and deliver holistic customer experiences while imagining the future of Windows experiences. We are working to optimize and customize Windows for software developers, creating new system settings and driving products like Dev Home and Windows Terminal. Our diverse team works collaboratively to create products and ideas that allow us to move fast to build seamless and delightful experiences for the developer audience. Join us! We're building a culture based on learning, and creating meaningful experiences for our customers. We are seeking multi-skilled product designers with a mastery of visual design, experience design, and storytelling. We're looking for a Designer II who's driven by empathy for customers, and the desire to see a project through from rough ideas to launch. The right candidate works independently and is a self-motivated collaborator with other design teams, engineering teams and marketing groups. Background in software development, coding, prototyping with code, or experience creating developer tools or products, would be a plus. Finally, this designer defaults to a making and building mindset - when in doubt we build something and test it. Embracing quick prototyping andtesting is highly regarded.You can learn more about the team at Create the future you want | Microsoft Design 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesContributes to design's direction for area of accountability and maintains cohesion with the existing design systemLeads design on a product with moderate to high visibility, risk, and/or complexityDevelops other team members as a mentor, onboarding buddy, coach, and sets the standard for designMaintains a bar for craft across design, product management and engineering within a major product areaContributes and partners with other major area leaders to ensure product coherence, erasing organizational boundaries from the experience while actively balancing working on the details and finding time to step back and see the bigger picture of the productContributes to broader Windows team culture (e.g., mentorship, onboarding buddy, team morale, ERGs/clubs)Understands and acts upon their role in creating a Diversity and Inclusion workplace at Microsoft. Demonstrates customer obsession and empathy, crafting a story around the WHAT, WHY, and HOW for their ideas, while demonstrating through work rather than just wordsEmbody our culture and values

 

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