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We’re looking for a talented Product Designer II to help shape the future of collaboration and communication in Microsoft Teams. You will have the chance to work on cutting-edge technologies, including AI-powered experiences and intelligent collaboration tools, that make a tangible impact on how people work together. Our design team is a highly collaborative group of user researchers, engineers, and designers. We value creativity, open idea sharing, and having fun while we work. Most of all, we’re motivated by our millions of users. We want them to love our products.

In this Product Designer II (Teams) role, you will be instrumental in building and scaling the Teams Platform, which integrates various software applications and enables developers to create and publish their own integrations. This platform-centric approach ensures that Teams is a central hub for collaboration, providing users with a unified and efficient experience across all their tools and applications.

At the core of this job candidates will identify user centered design patterns, establish scenarios, place designs into user context and create interactions that align to those requirements. Candidates should be able to articulate their thinking using a variety of mediums from information diagrams, and wireframe flows to detailed prototypes.

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

• Shape design thinking and frames the problem to prompt productive discussions. Establishes context with key data on competitors, user insights, market pressures, and defines success before exploring solutions. Ensures stakeholder alignment throughout the project. 

• Create wireframes, journey maps, and other elements to support interaction design. You’ll also participate in product UX improvements by creating interaction models while acting as a liaison between users and products.

• Clearly communicate and present your work and learnings to peers and managers within your design studio team. You will also communicate user needs to team members and recommend ideas to create a compelling productive narrative.

• Interacts with engineering for successful design implementation and performs quality audits (QAs) to help them ensure delivery of well crafteddesigns. Demonstrates ability to challenge limitations, negotiate with Engineering, adjust Engineering schedules, find alternatives, and make cases for designs to be implemented a certain way. 

• Generate and lead ideation solutions for complex design problems (e.g. involving many constraints, needing workarounds, requiring holistic view of interconnected systems) to deliver sophisticated and elegant product design solutions. Utilizes a variety of perspectives when ideating (e.g. experience, technology, user research, business). Synthesizes complex ideation solutions to concise articulation of user wants and subsequent solutions.

• Advocate for your design solutions by putting audience in context of business and user goals.

• Be self-directed, organized, motivated and driven to get the details right.

• Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required 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).

Preferred 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 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 November 11, 2024.

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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .