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Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

​​Within Azure Data, the big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric.​

Data is the new currency of the digital world, and Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help business and consumers get the most out of theirs. Creative impact at this scale is rare and is an enormous opportunity for the right candidate.

The Synapse Analytics UX team is looking for an Interaction/Content Design Leader whose work reflects a passion for helping people get the most from their data. This person is energized by tackling complicated problems and curious about exploring new product interaction paradigms. The ideal candidate would shows an affinity for designing cohesive experiences across multiple complex back-end services, a sensible and thorough pursuit of user delight, and a track record for delivering thoughtful and impactful products and services.

If you have a thirst for solving complex design problems at all levels – from information architecture to interaction design to prototyping to high-fidelity mockups - and are a strong design leader who enjoys collaborating and thinking both conceptually and strategically about the user experience, we’re looking for you.

Come join us!

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the continuing growth of a strong and highly successful design team.

• Collaborate with other designers to ensure consistency across experiences.

• Communicate, document, and represent design direction to team members, senior management and key stakeholders.

• Ensure the experience vision is driven by a well-defined nucleus of user needs, tasks, marketing and business requirements.

• Work with design, development and program management teams to ensure interaction and visual designs communicate and function successfully for varying technical and performance specifications.

• Work with user researchers to coordinate testing efforts, interpret test results, and incorporate results into design efforts.

• Effectively communicate with developers through implementation phase to realize design vision.

Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications ​​

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design

• OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).​

Other Requirements

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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• ​​2+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.

• Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design

• OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).​

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