Microsoft
UX Designer II
Overview
Are you a compassionate product focused UX Designer II, who’s interested in the paradigm-shifting world of AI? This could be the role for you. Microsoft’s Windows & Devices business group is looking for a User Experience (UX) Designer II to join the Privacy + Trustworthy AI team where they will plan, lead, and help drive the direction for globally compliant and highly crafted experiences in Copilot, our latest and cutting-edge AI product.
The company and team
At Microsoft, we have a clear mission and bold ambitions: Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more through our technology and innovation. To make that a reality, our Privacy + Trustworthy AI team is charged with partnering with our product teams in Copilot, Settings, and Windows OS to craft experiences that center the customer’s human right to data privacy, introduce them the power of adding Copilot to support their daily goals, and that all product experiences are aligning to global requirements and laws to keep both customer and MSFT safe. Our goal is to empower our customer’s control and safely introduce them to the world of AI.
Our vision as a charter:
- Design experiences customers trust.
- Work as an inclusive, collaborative, and unified team.
- Evolve our mindset on customer needs
- Create clarity and bring partners along in their understanding of data privacy and compliance
Who will be successful in this role
You’re a UX Designer II who thrives in fast-paced environments where the only constant is change. You handle ambiguity with grace by remaining laser-focused on the end user and their needs. You enjoy breaking down highly complex problems and building principles and systems to ensure they are solved consistently and holistically across product and platform.
You love to learn, solve challenges, and dream up breakthrough ideas. You’re a tireless advocate for the customer and enthusiastic about building and iterating on designs to discover what works best and applying your knowledge to create incredible software products. You’re passionate about learning the complexities at the intersection of customer, company, and data privacy in AI, and you want to work on projects that will define best practices that change the world for the better.
You understand how to bring a team together to solve difficult product and customer problems, fixing what’s not quite right and smoothing the customer’s journey through the product. You to find ways to reduce complexity, remove the extraneous, and shorten the path to “Wow!”
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design
- OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
Preferred Qualifications
- Inclusivity is at our core and is the point from which we make all decisions.
- Power user of Figma or related design and prototyping software with the ability to build and manage organized design files that are easy to follow and share.
- We are obsessively compassionate towards each other and the customers we serve.
- We believe in a growth mindset. AI is complex and we are part of a vast paradigm shift. Be open to discussion with others before committing to a viewpoint.
- Ability to create both high-level exploratory prototypes as well as detailed designs that can be delivered by engineering teams with minimal ambiguity.
- Experience designing data-driven business apps and/or website building tools as well as integrating or working with AI models.
- Work/life balance is incredibly important to us. We recognize that we require rest so that we can be at our best to respond to these unprecedented AI complexities.
Product Design IC3 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 – $182,600 per year. 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 $120,900 – $198,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 25, 2024.
Responsibilities
In this role as a UX Designer II you will design experiences with a broad charter that impacts consumer, enterprise, and education audiences. This will involve working closely with Copilot, Settings, and other partner AI product teams across Microsoft, which includes daily engagement with partner product managers, designers, researchers, engineers and leadership in all planning, development, and deployment of innovative and compliant product experiences. These solutions will allow customers to understand what data collection they are consenting to, educate them on how/where they can manage those decisions, actively build trust with customers as they use our AI-enhanced products, and align with all privacy global requirements as defined and interpreted by our regulatory teams.
You will be responsible for being the connection point between product teams across Windows and regulatory teams as you collaboratively design end-to-end product experiences. You will focus heavily on bringing regulatory clarity to all partners and using your creative design thinking skills to merge both UX and regulatory requirements within all AI-enhanced experiences to create the most highly crafted product experiences. You should be able to design powerful solutions whilst maintaining a focus on the customer’s holistic experience within the Windows platform.
LOCATION
Redmond, WA, USA
EXPERIENCE
Intermediate - Senior
JOB TYPE
Full Time
SALARY
Depends on the location
DESIGN TEAM
Unknown
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