Company: Microsoft Corporation URL: http://www.microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.com/careers
http://www.microsoft.com/design
Location: Redmond, WA
Position: User Experience Designer - 185275
Duration: Full Time
Microsoft is looking for a design leader. Someone who thinks strategically
about brands and can invent, drive, and inspire great visual and interaction
design to influence the course of the world's most used software product -
Windows, and its new suite of integrated online services, Windows Live. You'll
be working with the world's best developers, visual and interaction designers,
UX researchers, and brand managers, all dedicated to revolutionizing software
design. You need to be somebody that loves software, thinks deeply about
brands, is hands-on with technology, focuses on the customer, and absolutely
exudes a passion for great design. You and your team will responsible for
infusing and influencing the world's most recognized brand with great visual
and interaction design. This is not any design lead position. This is the big
time. Join us in the quest to make software that hundreds of millions of people
world-wide love.
Responsibilities include:
* Drive strategic thinking around the Windows and Windows Live brands, and
deliver the associated design components.
* Effectively balance long-term strategic issues around branding, visual
identity, and interaction design with day-to-day tactical issues. Fluidly move
from oversight/art direction to hands-on, 'in the tools' design.
* Deliver world-class interaction and visual design for Windows and Windows
Live.
* Collaborate across multiple disciplines: research, editorial,
planning/marketing, legal, PM, and software engineering. Work closely with
Legal on the IP protection of brand assets.
* Understand and evangelize user centered design and product development
processes.
* Lead innovation workshops and group brainstorms to generate design concepts.
Create compelling visual presentations and communicate to all levels of
management.
* Demonstrate excellent interpersonal, leadership, management, and coaching
skills that can inspire, lead, challenge and motivate a creative team.
Qualifications include:
* Experience defining, designing, and evolving brands. Expertise with brand
strategy, naming, brand DNA, visual ID, and value prop/messaging.
* 6 years minimum work experience as a Lead Designer or 3+ years in an Art
Director or Lead Interaction Designer role at a leading online company or
agency.
* Exceptional understanding of fundamental design principles (typography,
layout, grid systems, hierarchy, color, composition, animation). Deep
understanding for Microsoft design language and the ability to translate it
into future design of Windows and Windows Live. Keen eye for detail and a
passion for "pixel-perfect" fit and finish.
* Strong proficiency in Adobe CS, HTML/DHTML/XML, CSS/CSSX, Dreamweaver, Ajax,
Flash, and Silverlight. Familiarity with scripting languages a plus.
Familiarity with different platforms and browsers, and their design constraints
on the Web and in client software. Expertise in the application of tools and
technologies across web, client and devices (mobile phone, tv).
* Management experience directing a creative team and collaborating with
writers, usability engineers, marketing/brand managers, program managers and
software developers.
* Ability to produce sketches, storyboards, scenarios, design prototypes,
flows, interaction models, and visual design specs.
* Applicants should be detail-oriented, self-motivated, highly organized, and
able to work in a team environment under tight deadlines. Must be organized and
able to switch rapidly between different projects in a fast-paced and exciting
environment. Experience shipping products for large consumer audiences and
comfortable working on many products simultaneously.
* This position involves being acutely aware of what the industry and consumers
need from the Windows platform and Live services, and requires a
customer-focused thinker who can pro-actively communicate and lead in creative,
business, and technical discussions.
If interested please submit resumes (link to portfolio or work samples attached
is required) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Due to the high volume of resumes received only qualified candidates will be
contacted.
For additional information about design at Microsoft please visit
http://www.microsoft.com/design.
D'Andrea Turner
Prospecting Recruiter with Volt at Microsoft
425-421-9559 (O)
206-948-3494 (C)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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