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Applications Dev & Test - UX Designer 4 UX Designer 4
Hire Talent, Redmond, Washington, United States, 98052
Job Title: Applications Dev & Test - UX Designer 4Job Duration:1 Year on W2 ( High Chance of Extension)Job Location: Redmond, WA (Hybrid 2-3 Days On-site)
Summary:The *** Cloud for Sovereignty team is a globally distributed team aiming to bring the power of the *** Public Cloud to the unique challenges of public sector workloads that must adhere to government compliance & security requirements. Combining the flexibility and scale of public clouds such as Azure with needs for data residency, guardrails, policies, and security, our multi-disciplinary team-members contribute directly to ***'s mission to empower every organization on the planet to achieve more.
We are looking for a Senior UX designer to join us on the journey of delivering the building blocks for digitally transforming sovereign workloads across the world.
The role:You've worked on multiple enterprise solutions already and are interested in learning more about Azure, *** 365, *** Fabric, Copilots, and Power Platform.You're experienced with component-based design practices and contributing to multi-product design systems, building end-to-end visual flows and detailed functional and accessibility specs.You enjoy working with multi-disciplinary teams (all the way from product managers and engineers to content designers and researchers) and have strong written and verbal communication skills that can bring your team together to create simple and effective experiences.You're a tireless advocate for the people in all that they do. excited about creating and iterating on product designs, discovering what works best and applying your knowledge to create incredible software products that will change the world for the better.You thrive in the face of ambiguity, seeing it not as a barrier, but as an opportunity for innovation and learning, where your adaptability ignites creativity to empower you to confidently navigate the unknown.
What you will do:• Deliver thorough, actionable, accessible, and intuitive designs for a complex and regulated space. Your design work is clean, focused, and inspiring to others.• Produce design visualizations to help everyone understand what the best experience should be: storyboards, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and vision videos.• Create, assess, and validate design solutions based on user research input, user goals, business requirements, and technical feasibility.• Work closely with content designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to align, iterate, and deliver informed designs on time and at quality.• Work with user researchers to coordinate testing efforts, interpret test results, and incorporate insights into design efforts.• Support Engineering with design implementation, participate in product testing to maintain design quality, and adapt designs as needed during development.• Scope and estimate efforts accurately and prioritize tasks and goals independently.• Storytells the why, what, and how to a diverse set of audiences to create clarity, generate energy, and influence buy-in from key stakeholders.• Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to improve our products, our processes, and culture.
Job Description :• The terms of the Supplier Master Agreement with *** govern all assignments through *** Procurement, inclusive of, but not limited to, the Confidentiality and Security Requirements. Posting the *** name, group names, technologies (Xbox, Bing, etc.), project code names, or program office information is strictly prohibited.• Sub-contracting is discouraged at ***. All forms of sub-contracting must be submitted to the contractor services team for review and approval. Please note, for any assignments in support of the WDG organization, no sub-contracting approvals will be granted.• All candidates must be submitted with full legal names, and without agency letterhead or logos.• It is against *** policy to solicit another supplier's staff augmentation resource while on an active assignment.• Direct supplier contact with sponsors is NOT permitted.• This request is classified as a staff augmentation contractor role (Engaged to temporarily augment and support the existing resources of a team and/or a cyclical business need)
Responsibilities:• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is -*** cloud for sovereignty, Helping government and public sectors move towards Azure cloud environments while still maintaining the security and compliance• Key projects: This role will contribute to: Take on design work and own the design work, Enterprise software as a services, Working in Azure, Has experience with E2E- work within design systems, Working in the public sector, Enterprise software in the security scene• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of - 10% meetings with team, 75% Heads down- working within the featured team, user research, 15% design meetings- with the designers, government and public sector team
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What we're looking for:• Bachelor's degree in Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or equivalent professional experience.• 7+ years of experience designing end-to-end enterprise scale cloud software or services.• 2+ years experience working with and contributing to comprehensive design systems.• Proven track record of creatively solving hard problems, driving complex design issues across multidisciplinary groups such as engineering, product management, and research; and shipping relevant experiences within deadlines.• Experience in balancing user goals, business requirements and technical constraints to deliver delightful and meaningful product experiences.• Proficiency in modern component-based design tools such as Figma and the Adobe Creative suite.• Ability to create highly polished UX documentation, functional specs, accessibility specs, prototypes, mockups, user flows and other communication artifacts.• Ability to drive clarity and action through moments of manage ambiguity.• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with fellow designers and partners in Research, Product Management, and Engineering.• Outstanding storytelling ability to generate empathy; using written and verbal communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
Even better:• 3+ years of experience designing cloud services on one of the following public cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.• 1+ years of experience designing solutions that use Generative AI or Large Language Models.• Crafting a product vision to enroll and get buy-in from key stakeholders and leaders.
What we want to see:A strong online design portfolio is essential - it's your platform to showcase your achievements, design approach, and creativity. It's not just about showing your UX and interaction design skills.; it's about telling the story behind you and your work. We're excited to see your design evolution.Tell us about your design process and how you use research, concepts, user testing, and collaboration to craft exceptional user experiences. Share with us when you experienced a setback and how you emerged more insightful and resilient. Dazzle us with your innovation and how you moved behind a standard design to develop a unique solution.
Requirements:• Years of Experience Required: ___7+ overall years of experience in the field.• Degrees or certifications required: -Bachelor's degree in product design or equivalent professional experience• Disqualifiers: Only has B to C experience, Hadn't worked with other designers- worked with a small team, has only had short products, does not have the professional experience
Best vs. Average:B to B experienceWorked on a bigger teamExperience with designing for cloud services, so Azure, AWS, Google Cloud.Actual experience designing for solutions that use generative AI or large language models.Working in government or public sector
Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience:1. Deliver thorough, actionable, accessible, and intuitive designs for a complex and regulated space that the design work is clean, focused, and inspiring to others. | 7+ years of experience2. produce design visualizations to help everyone understand what the best experience should be. - That would include storyboards, flows, wireframes, prototypes, vision videos. | 7+ years of experience3. working closely, collaborating closely with content designers, researchers, product managers and engineers to align, iterate and deliver informed designs on time and at quality. | 7+ years of experience
Summary:The *** Cloud for Sovereignty team is a globally distributed team aiming to bring the power of the *** Public Cloud to the unique challenges of public sector workloads that must adhere to government compliance & security requirements. Combining the flexibility and scale of public clouds such as Azure with needs for data residency, guardrails, policies, and security, our multi-disciplinary team-members contribute directly to ***'s mission to empower every organization on the planet to achieve more.
We are looking for a Senior UX designer to join us on the journey of delivering the building blocks for digitally transforming sovereign workloads across the world.
The role:You've worked on multiple enterprise solutions already and are interested in learning more about Azure, *** 365, *** Fabric, Copilots, and Power Platform.You're experienced with component-based design practices and contributing to multi-product design systems, building end-to-end visual flows and detailed functional and accessibility specs.You enjoy working with multi-disciplinary teams (all the way from product managers and engineers to content designers and researchers) and have strong written and verbal communication skills that can bring your team together to create simple and effective experiences.You're a tireless advocate for the people in all that they do. excited about creating and iterating on product designs, discovering what works best and applying your knowledge to create incredible software products that will change the world for the better.You thrive in the face of ambiguity, seeing it not as a barrier, but as an opportunity for innovation and learning, where your adaptability ignites creativity to empower you to confidently navigate the unknown.
What you will do:• Deliver thorough, actionable, accessible, and intuitive designs for a complex and regulated space. Your design work is clean, focused, and inspiring to others.• Produce design visualizations to help everyone understand what the best experience should be: storyboards, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and vision videos.• Create, assess, and validate design solutions based on user research input, user goals, business requirements, and technical feasibility.• Work closely with content designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to align, iterate, and deliver informed designs on time and at quality.• Work with user researchers to coordinate testing efforts, interpret test results, and incorporate insights into design efforts.• Support Engineering with design implementation, participate in product testing to maintain design quality, and adapt designs as needed during development.• Scope and estimate efforts accurately and prioritize tasks and goals independently.• Storytells the why, what, and how to a diverse set of audiences to create clarity, generate energy, and influence buy-in from key stakeholders.• Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to improve our products, our processes, and culture.
Job Description :• The terms of the Supplier Master Agreement with *** govern all assignments through *** Procurement, inclusive of, but not limited to, the Confidentiality and Security Requirements. Posting the *** name, group names, technologies (Xbox, Bing, etc.), project code names, or program office information is strictly prohibited.• Sub-contracting is discouraged at ***. All forms of sub-contracting must be submitted to the contractor services team for review and approval. Please note, for any assignments in support of the WDG organization, no sub-contracting approvals will be granted.• All candidates must be submitted with full legal names, and without agency letterhead or logos.• It is against *** policy to solicit another supplier's staff augmentation resource while on an active assignment.• Direct supplier contact with sponsors is NOT permitted.• This request is classified as a staff augmentation contractor role (Engaged to temporarily augment and support the existing resources of a team and/or a cyclical business need)
Responsibilities:• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is -*** cloud for sovereignty, Helping government and public sectors move towards Azure cloud environments while still maintaining the security and compliance• Key projects: This role will contribute to: Take on design work and own the design work, Enterprise software as a services, Working in Azure, Has experience with E2E- work within design systems, Working in the public sector, Enterprise software in the security scene• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of - 10% meetings with team, 75% Heads down- working within the featured team, user research, 15% design meetings- with the designers, government and public sector team
:
What we're looking for:• Bachelor's degree in Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or equivalent professional experience.• 7+ years of experience designing end-to-end enterprise scale cloud software or services.• 2+ years experience working with and contributing to comprehensive design systems.• Proven track record of creatively solving hard problems, driving complex design issues across multidisciplinary groups such as engineering, product management, and research; and shipping relevant experiences within deadlines.• Experience in balancing user goals, business requirements and technical constraints to deliver delightful and meaningful product experiences.• Proficiency in modern component-based design tools such as Figma and the Adobe Creative suite.• Ability to create highly polished UX documentation, functional specs, accessibility specs, prototypes, mockups, user flows and other communication artifacts.• Ability to drive clarity and action through moments of manage ambiguity.• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with fellow designers and partners in Research, Product Management, and Engineering.• Outstanding storytelling ability to generate empathy; using written and verbal communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
Even better:• 3+ years of experience designing cloud services on one of the following public cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.• 1+ years of experience designing solutions that use Generative AI or Large Language Models.• Crafting a product vision to enroll and get buy-in from key stakeholders and leaders.
What we want to see:A strong online design portfolio is essential - it's your platform to showcase your achievements, design approach, and creativity. It's not just about showing your UX and interaction design skills.; it's about telling the story behind you and your work. We're excited to see your design evolution.Tell us about your design process and how you use research, concepts, user testing, and collaboration to craft exceptional user experiences. Share with us when you experienced a setback and how you emerged more insightful and resilient. Dazzle us with your innovation and how you moved behind a standard design to develop a unique solution.
Requirements:• Years of Experience Required: ___7+ overall years of experience in the field.• Degrees or certifications required: -Bachelor's degree in product design or equivalent professional experience• Disqualifiers: Only has B to C experience, Hadn't worked with other designers- worked with a small team, has only had short products, does not have the professional experience
Best vs. Average:B to B experienceWorked on a bigger teamExperience with designing for cloud services, so Azure, AWS, Google Cloud.Actual experience designing for solutions that use generative AI or large language models.Working in government or public sector
Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience:1. Deliver thorough, actionable, accessible, and intuitive designs for a complex and regulated space that the design work is clean, focused, and inspiring to others. | 7+ years of experience2. produce design visualizations to help everyone understand what the best experience should be. - That would include storyboards, flows, wireframes, prototypes, vision videos. | 7+ years of experience3. working closely, collaborating closely with content designers, researchers, product managers and engineers to align, iterate and deliver informed designs on time and at quality. | 7+ years of experience