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Job title

User Experience Designer

Company Microsoft Entertainment & Devices
Wage Not specified
Location United States, California, Mountain View
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 9/5/2008
Description
Job Title: User Experience Designer
Job Category: Software Development
Product: Mac Office
Date Posted: 09/04/2008
Job Code: 242257
Location: CA - Mountain View
Travel Required:

The Microsoft Mac Business Unit is looking for a User Experience Designer. This is a unique opportunity to drive User Experience Design for our market-leading Macintosh products, including the powerful Office for Macintosh productivity suite and Microsoft Messenger for Mac. Come help us build great experiences for the passionate Mac audience, have impact on the way millions of Mac users around the world work, and be a part of the largest dedicated Macintosh development team outside of Apple.

As User Experience Designer, you will design and prototype product experiences and you will drive your work through the software development process, working as part of a multi-disciplinary product development team of User Experience Research, Product Planning, Program Management, Development and Test.
Responsibilities include:
Balancing long-term strategic issues regarding branding, visual identity, and interaction design with day-to-day tactical issues; spanning oversight to hands-on design

Contributing to the delivery of an innovative and definitive Mac user experience

Advocating for an integrated, consistent UI through collaboration with the product development team

Work products may include:
User-centered product experiences that incorporate product strategy, business objectives and technology advancements
User task-flow analyses, story boards, concept sketches, wireframes, interaction designs high and low fidelity prototypes

Requirements
Bachelor's degree in product design, interaction design or related field. Advanced degree preferred.
Four years industry experience in visual and interaction design
Demonstrated proficiency with industry - standard visualization and prototyping tools
Design experience with the Mac OS X environment
Qualifications
Detail-oriented with a passion for pixel perfection, self-motivated, highly organized, able to work in a team environment that is fast-paced with multiple projects
Excellent visual and verbal communication skills.
Flexibility to travel between MacBU sites in Redmond, WA and Mountain View, CA About MacBU
MacBU is a highly independent team at Microsoft; we build and maintain end-to-end ownership of Office for Mac, driving essential productivity experiences on the Mac platform that are used by millions of people. We offer the feel of a small, independent business with a strong team culture of innovation, creativity, and having fun.
[link removed] - the MacBU team blog
http:// [link removed] - the Mactopia web site, for information about our products for the Macdf-tc

Experience/Skills
See above

Other desired skills:
User Experience Designer
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