Microsoft AR/VR Job | Senior Product Designer
Job（岗位）: Senior Product Designer
Type（岗位类型）: Design & Creative
Citys（岗位城市）: Redmond, United States
Date（发布日期）: 2022-2-3
Summary（岗位介绍）
Microsoft is committed to ensuring we design and deploy the most ethical, equitable, and safe platforms and experiences for the next generation of computing. The Mixed Reality team is developing future technologies to support richer human interactions between physical and virtual worlds that uphold existing responsible AI principles and go further to ensure trust and safety is at the forefront of all that is created.
The Responsible Mixed Reality Studio is a division of the Mixed Reality Design & User Research team. The Studio lead will take a design-led approach to uncovering opportunities and establishing design guidelines for ethical hardware and software that powers mixed reality experiences, including first party devices, first and third-party software solutions, and platform services. The studio will work closely with product teams to help articulate and bring to life requirements that span architecture to potential societal implications of mixed reality technology.
Qualifications（岗位要求）
- BA/BFA in Product Design, Interaction Design, Architecture, or equivalent industry experience.
- 5+ years of experience as a product designer, interaction designer, or related experience, with demonstrated experience thinking about Mixed Reality environments.
- Technical acumen and expertise; an understanding of designing, prototyping, building, delivering, and maintaining product to inform the right trade-offs between desirability, feasibility, and viability.
- Designed and shipped products related to AR, VR, MR.
- Agile, flexible, and comfortable dealing with the ambiguity of incubation work.
- A track record of working well with PM’s and engineers, and advocating for a human-centered, design-driven approach to product development.
- Storyteller – proficient in storyboarding or filmmaking to showcase the end-to-end user experience.
- Expert-level proficiency with common design tools (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, After Effects, Framer, etc.).
- Experience with 3D content tools (e.g. Cinema 4D, Unity, Maya, Rhino, Unreal).
- 3D or Motion Design – you can bring intimate objects to life
- Collaborative and self-motivated; able to partner effectively with others while also making smart, strategic decisions and working independently.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Description（岗位职责）
As a Senior Product Designer, you will have the following responsibilities:
- Conceptualize and develop innovative mixed reality design solutions, user experience flows, that work across Mixed Reality experiences.
- Distill and generate creative insights from customer, product, and prototype feedback.
- Work with fellow designers and engineers to design and deliver detailed concepts, demos, flows, and prototypes that showcase rich and engaging experiences in 3D.
- Rapidly prototype to demonstrate design concepts with emphasis on visual design & systematic thinking.
- Seek inclusive and divergent feedback from peers and leads to push your thinking and creativity
- Iterate with designers, researchers, and developers to quickly move assumptions and learnings forward.
- Document and communicate design rationale and recommendations that articulate both the “why” and the “what” of mixed reality solutions
- Advocate for Design thinking within an engineering organization by building relationships, introducing new processes, and communicating trade-off’s that keep the human in the middle of the conversation
- Identify risks in advance and drive the team towards successful resolution
- Be a positive, collaborative, and creative force on the team
