Job Description
Microsoft India Development Center
Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) is a key part of Microsoft's future strategic direction. Located in a sprawling 50-acre state-of-the-art campus at Gachibowli, Hyderabad, its designed to mirror Redmond quality standards, our 1400-plus employees get to work in a lively and fun-filled environment which combines the best of technology with great recreational amenities and helps them achieve the desired work-life balance.
At MSIDC the designers and user researchers are part of a Central User Experience Team, where they work on diverse range of products from incubation projects, to simple or complex consumer and enterprise applications on web, mobile, desktop environment. The design team has their own usability lab fitted with latest equipments. Designers work as a integral part of the team that have end-to-end responsibility for every product, feature or technology they develop. Designers own the UX strategy, are responsible for gathering customer requirements, conceptualizing, designing the UX, testing it and seeing it through implementation and release of the product to the market. The designers at India Development Center are integral part of more than 800 designers that Microsoft globally has, which enables them to constantly learn from and leverage the internal knowledge and design inspiration sources.
Responsibilities:
Be responsible for driving the process around gathering user data. Whether its collaborating with UX Researchers to drive usability testing or leading cross disciplinary team to do contextual enquiries at customer premises.
Use data gathered to identify, create or extend existing Mobile persona.
Be very strong in ideating and brainstorming to come out with multiple ideas around complex workflows.
Be very creative in synthesizing the user data into simple, exciting and very compelling designs.
Collaborate very closely with Program Management, Development and Test teams in seeing the designs through right from planning to implementation stage.
Coordinate and build relationship with peer design teams in Microsoft for knowledge transfers, cross group collaborations.
Qualifications:
Passion for design.
Excellent Communication, Analytical and Technical skills
Have a educational background in Interaction Design or related field. Optional for highly experienced candidate who can demonstrate great and evolved sense of design.
Have 5+ of design experience in a product development environment
Need to demonstrate a portfolio of work that showcases creative problem solving, innovative and exciting user interaction solutions that are rooted to real world needs.
Geeta Gudavarthi
v (dash) geetgu (at) microsoft (dot) com
Desired Candidate Profile
Responsibilities:
Be responsible for driving the process around gathering user data. Whether its collaborating with UX Researchers to drive usability testing or leading cross disciplinary team to do contextual enquiries at customer premises.
Use data gathered to identify, create or extend existing Mobile persona.
Be very strong in ideating and brainstorming to come out with multiple ideas around complex workflows.
Be very creative in synthesizing the user data into simple, exciting and very compelling designs.
Collaborate very closely with Program Management, Development and Test teams in seeing the designs through right from planning to implementation stage.
Coordinate and build relationship with peer design teams in Microsoft for knowledge transfers, cross group collaborations
Contact Details
Company Name:
Microsoft India (R & D) Pvt Ltd
Website:
https://www.microsoft.com
Executive Name:
Geeta (v-geetgu@microsoft.com)
Address: Not Mentioned
Email Address:
vijayna@microsoft.com
Telephone: Not Mentioned
Reference ID:
007
How to apply:
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