Microsoft Hiring For Product Designer II at India Full Time

Microsoft is embarking on a new effort to address the growing needs of employees around the world. We are building the Microsoft Viva product suite to address the fundamental shift in how people work, build their career, and find meaning in their workplace. Ally.io has joined Microsoft through a recent acquisition to become a core pillar in the Microsoft Viva suite. Ally.io is a category-leading OKR SaaS solution that helps drive accountability, transparency, and alignment on goals across organizations. It was a highly successful startup based in Seattle (including Seattle Startup of the Year, and finalist for next Tech Titan) with a significant team footprint in India. As part of Viva, we have once in a lifetime opportunity to build a massive business from ground up and bring purpose, happiness, and productivity to millions.

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer to help support the team on their journey of joining the Viva suite and continuing to drive value to Microsoft customers. This role will report to the Senior Design Manager and be instrumental in helping to shape the future of Ally and their engagement in the Microsoft Viva family.
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• Generate ideas, from foundational concepts with big ripple effects to small UI interactions, with fellow designers, product managers, and developers. Bring a user focus to these brainstorming sessions.
• Take initial concepts and mockups and own the process of building them out into entire end-to-end experiences within the product.
• Quickly iterate on concepts to bring them to life.
• Create & maintain design systems that are simple to understand but help us to move faster as we scale.
• Work with marketing to devise new ways to tell great stories throughout the user lifecycle, and across our site, product, help guides and other channels.
• Conduct user research and usability testing to discover the problems we need to focus on and to validate design changes.
• Critique and iterate on design ideas with other team members, proactively opening up your own ideas for critique.

• Partner with us to develop a visual language that is consistent, clear, and understandable across platforms. Work in interaction details that make the product not only usable but also enjoyable to use.
• Help us mold our culture into one that relentlessly focuses on the customers who will use it, encouraging design thinking across the organization.

• you have an eye for detail and care about creating beautiful, visually consistent designs.
• you can untangle hard conceptual problems and have a sharp intuition for how people use (or wish they could use) products.

• you have strong written and verbal communication skills and are able to articulate the why behind your decisions
• you care about the business needs, implications, and possibilities of your designs. you don’t get stuck on pretty ui, and can balance between craft, speed and the bottom line.
• you’re a good listener who likes to collaborate.
• you’re proficient using a wide variety of tools like figma or principle, and know how to pick the right tool for the job
• you understand when to quickly spin up a solution to satisfy an immediate need and when to dig deep into solving an underlying challenge.