Product Designer II

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.

We are looking for a Product Designer II that will focus specifically on our Database Migration services. Database migration is the process of transferring data from one database system to another. This could involve moving data from on-premise database to a cloud-based platform, and/or moving data between different types of database management systems (e.g., from Oracle to PostgreSQL).

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the continuing growth of a proficient and highly successful design team.
• Collaborate with other designers to ensure consistency across experiences.
• Communicate, document, and represent design direction to team members, senior management, and key stakeholders.
• Ensure the experience vision is driven by a well-defined nucleus of user needs, tasks, marketing, and business requirements.
• Work with design, development, and program management teams to ensure interaction and visual designs communicate and function successfully for varying technical and performance specifications.
• Work with user researchers to coordinate testing efforts, interpret test results, and incorporate results into design efforts.
• Effectively communicate with developers through implementation phase to realize design vision.
  
  

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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).
  

Other Requirements

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.
  
  

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ 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).
• 2+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.
• Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills.
• Have superlative visual design skills, think conceptually about design, present excellent problem solving skills, and exercise the ability to work well in a collaborative team environment.
• Understand the array of technical constraints, user goals and business requirements that shape a product.
• Demonstrate ability to work confidently with Program Management, Development, Product Planning, Brand, Marketing and Usability.
• Proficiency with Figma or Sketch with an understanding of rapid prototyping platforms such as Invision or Principle.
• Experience working within and contributing to a structured design system.
• Proficient organizational skills and an attention to detail.
• Additional proficiency and experience in any of the following skills: information visualization, illustration, motion graphics and animation, video, are not a requirement, but a plus!
  

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