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Looking for a high impact user experience design role helping thousands of organizations grow their businesses? Enjoy turning user goals and business requirements into simple, fluid, and flexible experiences that enable others to achieve more? Join Microsoft’s Commercial Partner & Seller Experience Design Team. We empower consumer, commercial, and gaming partners by building a best in breed partner ecosystem. Our partners’ success is our success.     

We’re looking for an experienced UX designer with an eye toward customer needs and data insights. You'll work with multiple teams and disciplines in a positive atmosphere that encourages continuous collaboration. In this role, you'll drive design projects from conception to implementation and maintain a continuous dialog with customers along the way.   

Responsibilities

As a designer in the Partner and Seller design team, you will:   

• Deliver outcomes by creating customer-centric designs.   
• Balance evolving business goals and implementation realities.   
• Produce flows, storyboards, wireframes, high fidelity mockups, and other artifacts.   
• Participate in design brainstorming, reviews, and working sessions with an agile, multi-disciplinary team.   

• Communicate, collaborate, and build consensus around experience architecture and interaction design direction.   
• Build useful, accessible, and clear designs that perform well.   
• Work closely with program managers, user researchers, and engineers to coordinate usability and A/B testing efforts, interpret results, and incorporate insights into the design.   
• Partner with developers through implementation phase to realize design vision.   
• Always be learning and prepared to share new learnings that encourage pushing the envelope for interactions and experiences.   

Qualifications

• BA/BDes/MDes in design, human computer interaction or related degree or equivalent experience. 
• 5+ years of experience shipping products in a product/software environment. 
• Proven experience in designing complex workflows from the conception and ideation phase through to delivery. 
• Experience designing business productivity applications, tools, or websites (dashboards, workflows, management UI etc.). 

• Experience in developing and conducting a variety of both qualitative and quantitative research, contextual inquiries, guided explorations, and usability/accessibility testing or working closely with a research team. 
• An online portfolio demonstrating experience creating user-centric design solutions (sketch, storyboard, final designs to live experiences). 
• Awareness of current and emerging trends in UX design.   
• Proficiency in design tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Illustrator, Balsamiq or similar tools and modern web development techniques.    

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Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

 - Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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