Job Description
**Senior UX Designer for AI Enterprise Resource Planning Software** We're seeking a Senior UX Designer to drive innovation in our AI ERP software, empowering Finance professionals with data entry ease, real-time dashboards, automated workflows, and robust reporting. **The Company and Team** At Microsoft, we're reimagining how organizations create, maintain, and report on their financial records with the infusion of powerful AI capabilities. Our team's charter is to empower and enhance Finance professionals by making data entry easier, designing real-time dashboards, automated workflows, and robust reporting. **Key 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. • 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, and 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. **Requirements** • Bachelor's or higher degree in Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND experience working in product or service design OR equivalent industry experience. • 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. • Ability to present your designs and articulate your rationale supporting your projects submitted as part of your portfolio. • Experience working in agile and lean methodologies in a multi-disciplinary working environment. • Experience supporting and leveraging User Research in the design process to optimize your designs for customers. • Demonstrated understanding of working with or contributing to comprehensive design systems and holistic UI toolkits. • Proficiency in modern component-based design tools (e.g. 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. • Ability to drive success through moments of ambiguity, helping drive clarity amongst the team. • Awareness of inclusive design principles including accessibility. **Preferred Qualifications** • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present your work to peers across disciplines. • Experience scoping, prioritizing, and estimating goal-oriented design efforts accurately. • Experience designing end-to-end enterprise-scale cloud software or services.