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Senior Interaction Designer, Microsoft Home Entertainment
Jun 02 05
Source: CHI-Jobs
Senior Interaction Designer ( to apply contact malk@microsoft.com)
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond Washington
Lead our award-winning hardware interaction design team developing breakthrough consumer products at Microsoft. The Home and Retail Division User Experience team is looking for a senior interaction designer who wants to explore new product opportunities in consumer hardware and software while evolving Microsoft’s hardware product line.
This person will be responsible for:
· Designing innovative hardware and software interaction solutions that meet business, project, and design goals for products that reach a global market.
· Leading the development of process and strategies that enhance the interaction design team’s contribution to the business, company, and industry.
· Developing staff performance objectives by completing reviews and monitoring individual career paths.
· Identifying and managing consultant resources to augment employee contributions.
· Representing Microsoft consumer businesses for customers and press.
Qualifications include:
· Strong visual and interaction design skills. Good understanding of designing for a combination of hardware and software is desired.
· Sensitivity to the physical, cognitive, emotional, and cultural needs of the people who use Microsoft hardware and software products.
· Experience designing software user interface solutions for Microsoft Windows (and related SW products) and consumer hardware products.
· Proficiency with user interface prototyping tools like Director, PhotoShop, Illustrator, and related applications. Experience with print and web design is a plus.
· Ability to work cross-discipline with user experience people (e.g., industrial design and human factors), technical people, and marketing people.
· Ability to effectively persuade, explain, negotiate, and monitor design solutions
· Ability to assess, prioritize and make trade-offs against business, technical, and user scenarios and constraints.
· Ability to contribute effectively to concurrent projects while under schedule constraints and the ability to lead multiple design programs, product lines, and design resources.
· A BA/BS degree in Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Information Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent is required.
· A minimum of 5 to 7 years experience in designing high-quality products for high-volume markets within a team environment.
· A design portfolio showing strong creative and problem solving skills, the ability to generate solid design and user interface solutions, and an illustration of design and creative process is required.
Product Design Manager ( to apply contact malk@microsoft.com)
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond Washington
Are you interested in working on the invention of a product that better integrates computing into consumers’ homes and lifestyles? Are you interested in working on a product that allows friends and family to enjoy technology together instead of in isolation? Are you interested in driving research and design that will define how people interact with and relate to this new product?
The New Consumer Products group is looking for a User Experience Manager to guide the design, research, and user documentation work on a groundbreaking product. You will work as a core member of the team to research and design these user interactions to create a great user experience. This person will be responsible for:
- Leading a user experience team with a vision to innovate software and hardware product solutions that meet business, project, and design goals for new consumer products that reach new global markets.
- Leading the development of process and strategies that enhance the user experience team’s contribution to the business, company, and industry.
- Managing and leading a team of industrial designers, interaction designers, user researchers, and user assistance experts by developing staff performance objectives, completing reviews, and monitoring individual career paths.
- Identifying and managing consultant resources to augment employee contributions.
- Representing Microsoft consumer businesses and vision for press and customers.
Qualifications include:
- Strong ability to manage a variety of user experience functions to address innovative new technologies for a combination of hardware and software.
- Sensitivity to the physical, cognitive, emotional, environmental, social, and cultural needs of the people who use consumer products.
- Ability to work cross-discipline with software and hardware engineering functions and marketing functions.
- Ability to effectively negotiate conflict and persuade others on the merits of a design or other user experience solution.
- Ability to adapt leadership style to changes in business, product, organization, or individual needs.
- Ability to assess, prioritize and make trade-offs against business, technical, and user constraints. Ability to prioritize between investments in new opportunities vs. sustaining work.
- Ability to initiate strategic planning activities that lead to the adoption of enhanced processes, new products, or changes in staffing strategy.
- Experience designing software user interface solutions for Microsoft Windows and related software products preferred.
- Experience with user interface prototyping tools like Director, PhotoShop, Illustrator, and related applications. Experience with print and web design is a plus.
- A BA/BS or greater degree in Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Psychology, Human Factors, or equivalent is required. MA/MS or greater is preferred.
- A minimum of 5 years experience designing high-quality products for high-volume, global markets within a team environment.
- A minimum of 5 years experience leading and managing teams of designers, researchers, or equivalent user experience functions.
- A user experience portfolio showing:
- Strong creative and problem solving skills
- Examples of design direction, creative process, research strategy, or equivalent user experience accomplishment.
- A presentation of work coming from the teams that the candidate managed, directed, and led