Designer 2

Overview 

Are you interested in designing the future of website building? Join us a Designer on the Design Team. Power Pages is emerging to be one of the fast-growing capabilities of Power Platform for large organizations, education institutions, and governments around the world to quickly design and launch external data-centric websites.  

Our team believes that product design only becomes great when we drive delight for our users at every step of their interaction with the product. That’s where you come in as a Designer. In this role, you bring your skills to your fellow design collaborators with optimism, a self-motivated attitude, and an open mind. You will be solving for low code concepts, generative AI, and other problems in delightful ways, driving customer love for over 270 million Power Pages customers. We are just starting our journey to innovate and aim for 1 billion users, thereby increasing revenue and value for Power Platform.  

You’ll be joining a team that is incredibly collaborative and inclusive, and strategically uses design to rethink how people build websites today and tomorrow.  

Cross-functional, full-stack product design teams 

You’ll be part of a product design team, studio, and organization that believes in the power of inclusion, diversity of ideas and people, work/life balance, and the sheer joy of solving hard problems. We’re nurturing a collaborative culture where everyone can flourish, learn, and innovate—even through the most challenging times. 

Our Designers apply their core design skills of systems thinking, interaction design, problem solving, prototyping, creativity and storytelling to deliver great product design. You'll utilize ideation techniques to enhance design outcomes and work with key stakeholders such as User Researchers, Content Designers, Product Managers and Engineers to simplify complex problems within business, technology, and experience constraints into compelling customer driven design solutions. You'll efficiently build prototypes for new features using a specified design system.  

Success here requires the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.  

The company and the team 

Microsoft's mission: Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.  

• You may be collaborating with partner teams across regions, with different cultures and perspectives—something we think results in products that work better for everyone. 
• Building a working understanding of Microsoft’s Power Platform portfolio strengthens domain knowledge, and can save you time, effort—and even earn you vital support from other teams. 
• Success here means questioning assumptions (or at least testing them!) and pushing beyond what’s familiar. You’ll explore, validate, test, iterate, and adapt experiences to drive customer usage and satisfaction.  
• Some products and features ship fast and get fine-tuned over time, while others involve longer timeframes and multiple teams and decision makers. Regardless of cadence, you’re a constant collaborator and your design input is critical to the product’s success at every juncture.  
• Our promise: We’ll support you and set you up for success—and regularly remind you how much we value your unique contributions to business impact and the success of products and projects.  

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 

• Demonstrated experience crafting product user interfaces across a range of platforms including desktop, cloud services, and mobile.  
• A portfolio of work showing experience creating user-centered design solutions is a requirement for application. (Either upload your portfolio with your application or include a link to it on your resume or LinkedIn profile.) 
• Your excellence in product design and strategy gets the products you’ve worked on noticed and appreciated—and your skillset shows in your playbook of uniquely honed tools, approaches, and solutions. 
• You’re fluent in design and prototyping tools—Figma, Sketch, or similar—and interaction flows are a regular output of your solutions. 
• Communication skills that extend to your relationships. You know building relationships both within and beyond your team is key for driving impact-oriented collaboration—and ultimately making a difference for customers. 
• A growth mindset—there’s always more to learn. Confidence and humility can coexist. You’re quick to own mistakes (we all make them) and willing to reconsider and explore ideas. 

Apply now 

If this sounds like you, give that product-savvy skillset of yours the global reach it deserves! Be sure to include your portfolio (or include a link) with at least three of your most relevant work samples.  

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The ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to specialized security screenings such as the Microsoft Cloud Background Check. For this position, you’ll be required to pass the background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Responsibilities 

• Conveys work to peers and managers within your studio team so that the audience understands. Sets context for stakeholders. Helps organize communication with cross-disciplinary teams inside and across through all stages of design and development. Owns communication for what one is doing in a proactive way. 

• Facilitates fundamental tasks on projects with creative team members, program managers, and engineers (e.g., the triad) to define and iterate on new and existing product features. Participates on one or more studies at a time and collaborates, creates, and helps the team deliver product design results. Influences team members in support of product design impact. Leverages the work of others. Contributes to the success of others. 

• Uses a prescribed design system such as components, icons, user-interface [UI] controls, navigation models, visual guidelines in your daily work. Shares learnings and collaborates with other designers to share education for team improvements. 

• Takes ownership of a product area from concept to delivery in conjunction with peers and under the guidance of senior team members. Understands the relationship between product areas and overall product architecture to ensure all parts work well with the whole product. 

• Builds prototypes as efficiently as possible. Presents to teams such as Design, Product and Engineering to receive and incorporate feedback. 

• Influences both designer and non-designer collaborators. 

What to expect from this role 

As a Designer on this product design team, you’ll be: 

• Contributing to a coherent vision and experience strategy. 
• Collaborating within and outside the design team to guide products from concept to launch. You’ll plan, craft, and refine UX elements and in-product language–testing, validating and adapting for the next iteration. Some wins will come quickly, while others may feel like they take forever to land. 
• Presenting ideas and concepts at all stages of the design process—research and analysis, personas, design concepts, usability testing—adapting presentations for different audiences. 
• Driving design decision-making to bring an informed point of view, experience, and data/research. Communicates in a purposeful, concise, and conversational manner. Advises on how to embed key concepts, interaction patterns, UI elements which are aligned with customers' intent and mental models.  
• Ensuring our AI experiences meet Microsoft’s Responsible AI criteria.