Overview

Microsoft’s mission is to ‘empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more’. At studio+91 at the India Development Center (MSIDC), we work together across a multitude of disciplines: design, research and design engineering, to empower people all over the planet. Our diverse teams are constantly iterating, solving problems and collaborating with product managers, engineers to craft meaningful and relevant product experiences. Studio+91 is ‘microcosm of Microsoft’ with teams working across Microsoft 365, Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Teams, Edge, Bing, SharePoint, Notes and Tasks, Azure, etc. forming and contributing diverse perspectives to the product experiences.

Microsoft 365 mobile app solves for user’s content-based productivity needs allowing them to get to, capture and create content quickly and delightfully on mobile. In addition to Word, Excel and PowePoint, the focus is very much on mobile content such as Images, PDFs, Voice recordings, and Video, and the workflows around them such as Capture and Create. Microsoft 365 mobile will play a pivotal role in surfacing to the end-user Microsoft’s advances in AI over the last year such as Copilot and AI powered chat to empower mobile content productivity workflows in a delightful way.

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Designer with a proven track record for creating usable, seamless, elegant and impactful design solutions, deeply rooted in customer needs. The person in this role will contribute hands-on. This is an exceptional opportunity to reach hundreds of millions of people with your innovative and creative work

Qualifications

• A strong portfolio showcasing your proficiency in translating research insights into great product experiences, reflecting the synthesis of good visual and interaction design principles. It serves to demonstrate your experience and as an example of your ability to create a compelling design presentation - indicative of problem solving, creative thinking and the delivery of solid end to end scenarios
• Professional experience: 8+ years of experience shipping digital products in a product/software environment
• User centricity: User-centric approach to design and an ability to interpret and draw out user insights from different data sources, and create experiences that solve for them.
• Simplicity in ambiguity: You thrive in ambiguous environments and move forward by building consensus, proposing simple solutions to complex workflow issues.
• Collaboration: Ability to collaborate and build allyship with product management and engineering to ensure consumer grade shipping experiences.
• Excellent storytelling skills to generate empathy, craft a vision, design for impact, using written and verbal communication, presentation, and organizational skills
• Visual design skill: Demonstrated visual design skill and examples of consumer grade work. Skilled at building and shipping consumer grade pixel perfect workflows, prototypes and concept pitches in the form of presentations and videos.
• Expertise in design tools: Figma, AfterEffects, Illustrator, PowerPoint
• Expertise in prototyping toos: Figma, Protopie
• Education: A Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in product design, HCI, interaction design, industrial design, communication design, architechture or equivalent experience