Senior Product Designer - UIUX at
Microsoft

Responsibilities

• Design strategy: Set design strategy and principles to guide design work for new projects based on a deep understanding of user needs, business goals and technical limitations.
• Conception: Work at the early concept phase by facilitating ideation sessions, storyboarding, brainstorming, creating user scenarios, and sketching early stage mockups.
• Interaction design: Produce design briefs, information architecture diagrams, wireframes, interaction flows, low-fi prototypes and other artifacts required to develop and evolve user experience designs.
• Visual design: Implement the appropriate visual design language (including grid, typography, color and other design-language patterns) for the products and deliver visual assets (icons, logos, layout redlines, screen mockups, hi-fi prototypes) to development counterparts on time and with quality, in accordance with agile methodology.
• Communication: Effectively communicate design strategies, concepts and solutions to peers, partners and stakeholders throughout the organization.
• User-centered Iteration: Work with Product Managers to collect/interpret user feedback and telemetry and incorporate findings into design solutions.
• Global alignment: Work closely with design counterparts in global teams to align the design strategies and execution consistency.
• Agile method practice: Practice a highly efficient, iterative design process with light documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Communication Arts, Information Design, or equivalent education or experience
• 7+ years of industry experience designing products that have shipped into high-volume market
• 2+ years of experience in leading design teams or design projects
• Experience of drafting design guideline to define common patterns and visual styles for new projects
• Written and spoken English proficiency is a must, and fluency in Mandarin is a plus.
• Expert level proficiency with common design tools (Sketch, Photoshop, After Effects, Axure etc.). HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript knowledge would be huge plus
• Ability to quickly produce elegant and easily understood diagrams, wireframes, and other artifacts
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to make compelling and clear design presentations for varied audiences
• Passion and skills for taking research findings and translating them into tangible designs
• Strong design sensibility and attention to detail
• Ability to mentor, inspire, grow, and retain all levels of designers
• Strong interest in and aptitude for learning new technologies and design skills
• Hands on experience with agile/lean methods

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