Microsoft

Are you passionate about creating seamless experiences?

Join our dynamic team at Microsoft Security Exposure Management and shape the future of security for millions of users worldwide.

We are a team of UX professionals spanning Product Design, UX Research, and Content Design. Together with our PMs and Engineering partners, we create trusted, human-centered, and easy-to-use product experiences that enable our users to manage, protect, and secure their digital environments with peace of mind.

Security is a top priority for our customers in a world filled with digital threats. Exposure managment aims to make the world a safer place by providing end-to-end, simplified solutions. Our culture embraces a growth mindset, inspires excellence, and encourages teams to bring their best every day, creating life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives.

Join our UX team and help organizations explore and understand their attack surface, prioritize focus areas to better protect against emerging threats, and effectively reduce risk across all assets. We are constantly innovating and designing new experiences for CISOs, Security decision-makers, Security admins, and practitioners.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.

We are looking for an experienced and passionate designer to join our diverse team. We design for a rapidly growing, cutting-edge business that values our work and sees user experience, customer experience, and service design as key strategic priorities. Your design passion will make an immediate and 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 companies to SMB markets.

As a Senior UX Designer, you will:

• Create wireframes, journey maps, prototypes, and detailed mockups to iterate on product scenarios and communicate design concepts to stakeholders and partners.
• Manage design toolkits, product assets, interaction models, and data visualization, working closely with the design system team.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams across all stages of design and development through compelling storytelling and feedback.
• Understand customer needs, define and solve problems and work within engineering constraints to create engaging experiences and challenge design and engineering limitations when appropriate.
• Provide guidance to other designers and engineers to ensure your design vision is realized in code.
• Independently manage multiple projects end-to-end, owning timelines and deliverables, guiding production, and communicating evolving project goals.
• Receive and prioritize incoming projects, balancing speed, quality, and innovative work.
• Understand strategic business goals, focus work around objectives and key results, and guide team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution of tasks.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, design trends, and industry best practices, proactively suggesting and implementing improvements to our design processes and tools.
• Identify your interests and initiate UX-driven ideas.
• Bachelors or Master's Degree in Visual communication design, Interaction Design, Product Design, Industrial Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field
• 6+ years of experience working in B2B product as a product design [UX+UI]. 
• Deep knowledge of design, with strengths in visual design principles, interaction design, prototyping, deep understanding of front-end development.
• Strong communication skills  
• Self-starter with expertise in user experience and visual design  
• Understands how to utilize design specialties and how/when to integrate with partnering teams (PM, engineering, marketing, brand, and content teams) 
• Customer-centric mindset with experience turning abstract design concepts into reality. 
• Experience creating design systems, style guides, component libraries, and technical frameworks. 
• Firm grasp of Figma for design and prototyping
• Learn-it-all (not know-it-all) attitude and approach 
• Willingness to question established thinking in pursuit of better outcomes. 
• Ability to evangelize design thinking with product team. 
• Link to online portfolio - A strong portfolio is critical for this role. Showcase your experience in interaction design, particularly in complex systems where simplicity and ease of use were a major concern.

Preferred 

• Experience with Security domain. 
• Familiar with agile or lean methodologies. 
• Awareness of inclusive design and how it supports Microsoft’s mission.

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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. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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