Job Duties

Microsoft Corporation has the following job opportunity:

Create designs, prototypes and/or concepts for business productivity, gaming, entertainment, or other software or hardware applications. Leverage innovative techniques to ensure products and services are desirable, relevant, usable, personal, and feasible. Conceptualize and facilitate ideation sessions, storyboarding, and brainstorming to develop user scenarios and sketch early stage mockups. Drive design from definition to ideation to delivery. Produce design briefs and support the production of information architecture diagrams, wireframes, interaction flows, low-fi prototypes, or other artifacts required to develop and evolve user experience designs. Implement Microsoft visual design languages for production of designs. Collaborate with cross functional teams to translate user feedback and telemetry into design solutions. Develop and design special effects, designs, or other visual images using industry design technologies that improve Microsoft product user experience or other world class creations like computer games. Combine artistic talent with research on product use to create the most functional and appealing design. Telecommuting permitted 100% from any location in the U.S.

In the offered position, the Designer will be responsible for designing Microsoft website and other Microsoft online account experience for its users. Will improve user experience by improving designs for Microsoft account interface. Will contribute to the production of designs for Microsoft sign in / sign up experience and develop functional and appealing designs for overall Microsoft ecosystem. Will document designs and strategies to help Microsoft ecosystem keep coherence and deliver uniform Microsoft experience to all of its users.

Minimum Requirements

• EDUCATION: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Industrial Design, Speculative Design, Information Science, Computer Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction or a related field.
• EXPERIENCE: Two (2) years of experience in UX design and performing user testing.
• SPECIFIC SKILLS: This position also requires six (6) months of experience in User Experience Design, User Interface Design, User Research, Wireframing & Prototyping, Usability Testing, Project Management, and Qualitative Data Analysis.

Multiple job openings. Qualified candidates must meet the minimum requirements for the position. Microsoft Corporation is an equal opportunity employer.

Pay Range and Benefits Information

The offered base pay range for this specific position (TSSKS16899c), based in Redmond, WA (but telecommuting permitted 100% from any location in the U.S.), is $139,300 to $169,300.

Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At Microsoft certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus, and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role. Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of employment with Microsoft and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others. U.S.-based employees also receive, per calendar year, up to 10 scheduled paid holidays, and up to 80 hours Holistic Health Time Off. Additionally, hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours paid vacation time, and salaried/exempt employees have Discretionary Time Off (DTO).