UX Designer, Lead

Overview

Are you interested in joining a world-class user-experience (UX) design team within one of Microsoft™’s most strategic innovation groups? Our Consumer Productivity Incubation Team is looking for a top-notch UX design lead to help conceptualize, design and deliver world-class user-experience solutions across an array of cutting-edge projects - and have some serious fun while doing it.

As a R&D group in the Microsoft Business Division, we are focused on pushing the productivity horizon farther through rapid innovation. As part of this effort, our Incubation team will focus on building code as if it were to be shipped, with projects ranging from 6-18+months on average. Our project portfolio will include a diverse set of highly strategic MBD projects. Imagine helping to conceive a mobile phone that is custom tailored for information workers… or re-inventing the next wave of social networking software… or how about creating a new paradigm for rich interactive visualizations that will take the concept of immersive user experiences to a whole new level.

The User Experience Design Lead role will provide strategic value to the team’s initiatives, helping to drive a user-centric interaction design strategy across each project initiative. As a UX Lead you will lead a small, nimble team exploring new UX paradigms for new meeting and presentation scenarios, social networking in the enterprise, and/or consumer productivity scenarios. UX will be involved and integral throughout the project lifecycle - from conception to completion. Candidate should be bursting from the seams with talent for designing rich, visual user-interaction solutions across a range of platforms and mediums. In addition, candidates should have passion for conceiving innovative user-interface models that explore concepts that lie well outside today’s typical application GUI, NUI paradigms.

The User Experience Design Lead role will provide strategic value to the team’s initiatives, helping to drive a user-centric interaction design strategy across each project initiative. As a UX Lead you will lead a small, nimble team exploring new UX paradigms for new meeting and presentation scenarios, social networking in the enterprise, and/or consumer productivity scenarios. UX will be involved and integral throughout the project lifecycle - from conception to completion. Candidate should be bursting from the seams with talent for designing rich, visual user-interaction solutions across a range of platforms and mediums. In addition, candidates should have passion for conceiving innovative user-interface models that explore concepts that lie well outside today’s typical application GUI, NUI paradigms.

Responsibilities

• Help define, and own UX design deliverables across project initiatives (inlc. ideation, user-flow analysis, wire-framing, interaction design, visual design, branding and execution)
• Facilitate early ideation sessions with brainstorming, storyboarding, rapid prototyping
• Help develop and manage UX project schedules across multiple projects
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members/leads (UR, Dev, PM) to evaluate and extend project proposals and early concept development
• Oversee the creative output of the incubation team
• Monitor and drive the team to utilize the best and latest methods and processes
• Promote a culture of innovation, teamwork and high expectations
• Oversee simultaneous projects from inception to completion, reviewing project plans, designs and deliverables.
• This position requires the need to be organized, detail-oriented and results-driven.
• Passion for our customers and for consumers who want great user experiences is highly desired.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience developing world-class, forward-thinking user experience solutions
• Proven track-record of hands-on user-interface design leadership for web and software
• Expert level proficiency with common design tools (Illustrator, Photoshop, Blend, After Effects, Flash 3-D modeling, etc)
• Strong design sensibilities (typographic, grid, motion and color theory skills) and attention to detail required
• BS/BA or Masters Degree in Interactive Media-, Graphic-, or Industrial Design
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Ability to mentor and develop skills in all levels of designers.
• Strong project management, communication, and presentation skills
• A portfolio demonstrating breadth and creativity in related fields
• Intrinsic passion for seamless hardware/software integration
• Strong interest in and aptitude for learning new technologies and design
  skills

Contact

If you are interested, please send me a mail with your resume and sometimes you are available to talk. If you aren’t interested, please send this along to anyone you know who might be a fit – or could know someone who would be.

Thanks,

Ryan Graves
http://www.unhub.com/ryangraves
Staffing Consultant *|* (425) 421-8953

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