If you're passionate about technology, have a knack for creative ideas, and lead with a growth mindset, we want to hear from you. The Web Experience Collective (WXC) is a creative community of designers and researchers on a mission to create and deliver holistic customer experiences while imagining the future of web3. Between Edge, Bing, and apps, we're creating end-to-end web experiences from shopping to search, ads, news, sports, and gaming. Our diverse team works collaboratively to create products and ideas that empower us to move fast to build seamless and delightful experiences for billions of customers worldwide.Join us! We are seeking a Design Director with strong consumer product design experience to help us with the next wave of news and web experiences. For this role, we're looking for a leader with both strong design skills and people management skills; you should have superb visual and interaction design skills, experience managing 10-15 individual contributors and managers, and be comfortable with the ambiguity involved in inventing v1 experiences. You will lead your team to concept, prototype, and evangelize new customer experiences as well as help evolve our design system, working across teams to bring design coherence to our framework and create beautiful, inclusive, and accessible experiences that customers love.Responsibilities:Lead a team of designers, creating clarity, generating energy, and delivering results.Drive product experience strategy, interaction design, creative direction, and craftsmanship for a v1 product.Drive cross-team collaborations between your team and other designers, researchers, program managers, product planners, and developers from early product stages to implementation.Understand the behaviors, motivations, and needs of our customers to develop relevant and impactful experiences.Contribute to strategic product planning via experience roadmaps.Propose creative solutions to complex user experience journeys, drawing on your ability to map end-to-end experiences.Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to improve our processes, products, and culture, influencing design direction and research methodologies.Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field AND extensive experience working in product or service design.OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field AND significant experience working in product or service design.OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).Proven experience leading cross-functional teams, creating clarity, generating energy, and delivering results.Demonstrated sense of interaction design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design.Strong visual design skills.Excellent communication and presentation/storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas.Experience designing in Figma.Proven experience within digital products.Strong written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical. Native or professional fluency in English.Resume must include a link to design portfolio.Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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