Description :
Job Title: User Experience Designer
Job Category: Product Design
Product: (Not Product Specific)
Date Posted: 10/03/2008
Job Code: 246046
Location: WA - Seattle
Travel Required:
At Microsoft's Pioneer Studios, we focus on developing branded consumer experiences for Microsoft's entertainment and devices businesses: Xbox, Zune, Mobile, and emerging areas. By harnessing trends and technology insights, we develop products using an integrated design, engineering, and business approach.
Primary Responsibilities:
We are looking for a Senior User Experience Designer who is both a creative leader and hands-on designer to explore, conceive, define, and design the consumer user interfaces across the Pioneer Studio portfolio. Primary responsibility is to apply a range of skills across interaction design, information architecture, and graphic design to create interfaces that emotionally connect with consumers while balancing functional, physical, and technical factors. Skills in high and low-fidelity prototyping, motion/animation, information visualization, visual storytelling and typography is highly desired.
This designer will work closely with industrial designers, producers, user researchers, ergonomists, marketers, software engineers and hardware engineers in a highly collaborative studio environment.
The position is located in our studio space in Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle. It will require some domestic and international travel.
Requirements:
Portfolio demonstrating interaction design solutions that resonate with consumers on a functional and emotional level.
Ability to develop a clear, engaging and honest point of view, advocate the resulting design and present its story with confidence.
Understanding of consumer markets and ability to synthesize consumer research.
Experience navigating all phases of design from concept development through production.
Ability to write clear design documents for internal and external consumption.
Hands-on skills with industry-standard design tools (i.e. Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Visio, Blend etc.). Motion graphics experience is a plus.
Evidence of multidisciplinary team leadership and ambidextrous thinking synthesizing analytical & aesthetic thought, art & engineering, business & brand.
5-7 years of experience in designing high quality branded consumer electronics products.
Bachelor's degree in design, engineering, or related discipline.