Senior Designer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

The Cognition Design team seeks a Technical Designer to join a platform-focused team that creates design prototypes, tools, controls/patterns, and sample apps for Cognitive Services (Speech/conversation and Vision). You're a hands-on designer and coder, and have a strong body of work demonstrating your expertise in design for experiences that include speech/conversation and vision input. You are skilled in designing for multimodal inputs, as well as the creation of developer-empowering controls, tools, and patterns. You are prepared to challenge the boundaries of conventional user interface design to delight users and customers in cognitive services. You have experience in Unity and in speech-related tools like Bot Framework. And perhaps most importantly, you are passionate about engaging with designers and developers, online and offline, to create a great user experience for our customers.

Requirements:

* BA/BFA in 3D Design, Interaction design, services design, or equivalent industry experience.
* 3 + years Technical Design or Gameplay programmer experience working with Unity or an equivalent commercial game engine to design user interfaces for games, interactive experiences in AR/VR or apps, and speech/vision services.
* Expertise in Speech and Vision experiences and tools
* Design user interface systems that support Multimodal inputs.
* Create rapid prototypes to demonstrate the functionality of your design.
* Develop sample apps that enable creation of great user experiences in HoloLens and VR.
* Expertise in the following areas of User Experience design: Input, Interaction, Styling, Accessibility, Localization.
* Strong experience with asset and services implementation and workflows.
* Proficient with 2D and 3D software package
* 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.



Pluses:

Actively participates in Game Jams or Hack-a-thons.

Designed a developer-interface in a Speech/Conversation tool or product that has shipped.

Storyteller - proficient in storyboarding to showcase the end-to-end user experience.

Mobile App Development - You have created great experiences within the technical confines of a mobile platform.

Cloud Services - You can leverage the power of the cloud through service integration.

Multi-user/Multiplayer - You've created a Multi-user/Multiplayer experience

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Responsibilities:

Design and develop experiences, controls, guidance & patterns, tools, and sample apps for cognitive-services creators (Speech/conversation and Vision);

Rapidly prototype solutions to some of the most pressing design problems;

Craft user experience guidance & documentation through various mediums. Communicate and evangelize broadly to help creators bring their vision to life;

Work collaboratively within the Cognition design team and larger engineering org