Senior UX Designer

Senior UX Designer, Business Performance Analytics Microsoft’s Business Applications & Platform Studios is looking for a Senior UX Designer to help drive AI innovation in Copilot and ERP. The company and team At Microsoft, we have a clear mission and bold ambitions: empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more through our technology and innovation. To make that a reality Business Applications & Platform Studios is reimagining how organizations run their businesses with the power of generative AI. To make that a reality, our D365 Business Performance team is charged with crafting solutions that help users consolidate their data from disparate systems, automate and enhance processes from planning to forecasting, extract business insights with AI, and consume those insights through rich visualizations. ERP systems are the central nervous system of modern business, centralizing data for better insights across core functions like Finance, Supply chains, HR and operations. Join us as a product designer, building the next generation business performance tools for planning and analytics with AI that delight users and reduce the time needed to get valuable insights from their data at every level of the organization. We’re a growing multi-disciplinary team focused on working collaboratively along with program managers, engineers, and researchers and, we'd love for you to be a part of our story! Come join a positive and collaborative team — where everyone is encouraged to bring their authentic selves — and work at the forefront of Microsoft’s AI ERP business. The role You’ve worked on multiple digital projects already and you're interested in learning more about the ERP space and building AI-driven solutions. You’re experienced with component-based design practices and contributing to multi-product design systems, building end-to-end visual flows and detailed visual specs. You enjoy working with multi-disciplinary teams (all the way from product managers and engineers to data scientists and researchers) and have strong communication skills that can bring your team together to create simple and effective customer experiences. You're a tireless advocate for the customer and excited about creating and iterating on product designs, discovering what works best and applying your knowledge to create incredible software products that will change the world for the better. The role’s broad scope will give you ample room to flex your design muscles — both on projects that have immediate impact on our Microsoft business applications portfolio and our greater AI investments, but also explorations that shape our long-term strategy, vision and the UX direction of the company. This role is open to flexible working location within Ireland.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND experience working in product or service design
• OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).

Preferred qualifications:

• A portfolio that effectively reflects your experience and clearly details the design journey in your work across information architecture design, usability, interaction, and visual design for UI (Please indicate your specific roles and contributions for each project submitted as part of the portfolio).
• Experience working in agile and lean methodologies in a multi-disciplinary working environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of working with or contributing to comprehensive design systems and holistic UI toolkits.
• Proficiency in modern component-based design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, and the Adobe Creative suite.
• Ability to create highly polished UX documentation, functional specs, prototypes, mockups, user flows and other communication artifacts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present your work to peers across disciplines.
• Ability to deliver success through moments of ambiguity, helping drive clarity amongst the team.
• Experience scoping, prioritizing, and estimating goal-oriented design efforts accurately.
• Strong understanding of human-centered design principles and the ability to incorporate it into every stage of the design process.
• Familiarity with core interaction patterns and digital interface best practices, including accessibility fundamentals.
• Experience designing end-to-end enterprise-scale cloud software or services.

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.

Responsibilities

• Be an avid customer advocate, mastering customer needs and using feedback, user goals, data, and business requirements to drive clear UX direction on the product.
• Work closely with product managers and engineers, bringing a purely customer-centric mindset to the table to deliver high-quality outcomes that empower customers to do more.
• Produce designs that illustrate UI excellence and transpire clear and objective user experiences. Deliverables may include storyboards, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and vision pieces.
• Embody the "One Microsoft" motto and extend your design thinking beyond your own project, considering holistic company value in every solution you build.
• Initiate and facilitate UX team-building efforts such as design reviews, workshops, pitch decks or other materials that help align people on common goals/direction.
• Contribute to a welcoming and safe working space, fostering a diverse and inclusive team environment.
• Embody our Culture and Values

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. Industry leading healthcare Educational resources Discounts on products and services Savings and investments Maternity and paternity leave Generous time away Giving programs Opportunities to network and connect Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations . #J-18808-Ljbffr