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Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Join the Microsoft Security Management team and help shape the future of enterprise security, devices and applications management!

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our diverse and close-knit team. We design for a rapid growth, cutting-edge business that understands and values your work and sees user experience, customer experience, and service design as key strategic priorities. Your design passion will make an immediate impact within the Security Division at Microsoft and influence a lasting impact on our customer experience. Our vision is to create professional, seamless, and friction-free experiences that enable our customers to work less and accomplish more. In this role, you will have the opportunity to showcase your talents to create experiences used by our diverse worldwide customers from Fortune 500 to SMB markets.

As a Senior Product Designer, you can conceptualize the big picture, have a clear understanding of Enterprise Security, Device Management and AI and its capabilities, and can drive detailed design development. You should have a proven record of innovative thinking, a history of using design to drive new ideas, and the ability to collect feedback from stakeholders and the design team to make the right design decisions. In this role, you will work with other designers, product managers, and engineers to create forward thinking designs that are user scenario driven and meet business goals. You will leverage user centered design patterns, refine scenarios, place designs into user context, and create interactions that align to those requirements. You will need to show attention to detail and passion in the work you produce.

Our team is comprised of widely talented and diverse individuals with interesting backgrounds and provocative passions. It’s an environment where creativity and innovation thrive, teamwork is highly valued and where you can solve hard problems through collaboration with a wide range of peers and partners.   

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

• Deliver world-class design solutions from initial concept through finished product  

• Provide insightful perspectives and ideas that will help shape the direction of company-wide investments in the security space. 

• Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business, user goals, and ecosystem considerations.

• Incorporate system and framework thinking and pattern-matching into solutions to reinforce integrity of design system and product cohesion  

• Contribute to the visual systems and visual language for a product.

• Work closely and constructively with product management, content designers, user researchers, engineers and other designers to iterate and deliver design artifacts and solutions.

• Create wireframes, journey maps, prototypes and detailed mockups to iterate on product scenarios.

• Seek out and incorporate the feedback of the design team to refine your designs and align to larger product patterns.

• Clearly communicate your work to peers and managers within your immediate team and feature crews. You will collaborate with developers to ensure design quality.

• Workalongside team members to create compelling narratives for a specific product or feature and develop product architectures and systems.

• You’ll be an active contributor in evaluating and prioritizing work.

Other

• Embody ourCulture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) & 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 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 4+ years experience working in product or service design

• OR equivalent experience

Other Requirements:

• The 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 Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in product design for highly complex systems  

• Demonstrated breadth across interaction design, information architecture, usability 

• Excellent interpersonal communication and visual storytelling skills  

• Hands-on experience creating detailed wireframes (both low and high fidelity), polished design prototypes and other design artifacts in a fast-paced environment 

• Able to scope and estimate efforts accurately and prioritize workload independently  

• Proficiency in a variety of design tools (especially Figma) and processes such as journey mapping and design sprints/workshop

• Experience using design components and pattern libraries.

• Experience with prototyping tools (Figma, ProtoPie, etc.).

• Awareness of inclusive design and how it supports Microsoft’s mission.

• Familiar with agile or lean methodologies.

• Experience with Security domain.

• Experience with Enterprise device management domain

• Experience designing user experiences for cloud software and services and/or IT professionals.

• Experience, understanding, and knowledge of Artificial Intelligence.

• Experience with OpenAI/ChatGPT.

• Understanding of Large Language Model (LLM).

• Comfortable with ambiguity, design tradeoffs and shifting priorities.

• Creative and holistic problem solver with a sharp eye for details.

• Creating and applying established design principles and interaction patterns.

Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 June 29, 2024.

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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) .