Microsoft
Design Researcher: PhD Internship Opportunities
Overview
Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.
As a UX Researcher, you will drive human-centered strategy, help set product direction, and contribute directly to ongoing product development by integrating insights about human behaviors, attitudes, practices, and norms. This opportunity will allow you to drive short and long-term research plans to fill in knowledge gaps, prioritize inclusion, identify risks, and inform product decisions; conduct analyses and distill quantitative and qualitative data into actionable insights and actively contribute to achieving product outcomes that delight customers and meet desired organizational goals; contribute to business success across all stages of the product cycle by representing the voice of the customer.
At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.
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.
Qualification
Required Qualifications
- Currently pursuing PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communications, Information Science, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Social Sciences, or related field
- Have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.
The base pay range for this internship is USD $5,090 – $10,120 per month. 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 $6,690 – $11,030 per month.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-intern-pay
Microsoft accepts applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis throughout the academic calendar (September – April).
Responsibilities
- Create and drive plans for research studies and/or programs for a component or feature. Define and scope problems for study with clear success criteria relevant for business needs. Plan research design to proactively minimize bias.
- Choose the research method(s) best suited to the business objectives and learning needs (e.g., moderated and unmoderated usability studies, interviews, surveys, scorecards, competitive benchmarks, clickstream analytics, A/B testing, ethnographic field research, participatory designs, user modeling). Collect valid, reliable, and unbiased data.
- Synthesize and distill data. Review quantitative and/or qualitative signals to draw appropriate and valid conclusions from available data; analyze data to determine the most significant elements, identify common elements and themes in situations and actions, and recognize cause and effect relationships. Translate raw data into insights.
- Apply user experience research and design thinking approaches to solution exploration.
- Measure user experience improvements over time for a component or feature.
- Produce impactful artifacts generated from research findings which bring clarity to the space being studied.
- Create communication methods that promote an emotional connection to a customer, and convey real user stories that reveal customer insights.
- Industry leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
LOCATION
USA
EXPERIENCE
JOB TYPE
Part-time
DESIGN TEAM
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