Senior Content Designer
Microsoft Corporation - Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30349![Microsoft Corporation](/api/image?src=https%3A%2F%2Fgeneral-board-default.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdesk-360x180.webp&w=640&q=75&f=webp)
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Ensure you read the information regarding this opportunity thoroughly before making an application.Our team believes that product design only becomes great when language is straightforward, clear, and designed to flow naturally from one concept to the next. That’s where you come in as a Senior Content Designer. Your work—collaborating with Interaction Designers, User Researchers, Product Managers, and Engineers to craft simple, clear, and innovative customer experiences—will have an immediate impact on the business.You’ll be joining a team that is incredibly collaborative and inclusive, strategically using design to rethink how people build apps today and tomorrow.As a Content Designer, you’ll collaboratively design and shape the entire user journey—making every step in the customer’s workflow easy to understand and championing Microsoft’s brand voice principles: crisp and clear, warm and approachable, and ready to lend a hand.ResponsibilitiesComplexity brings out your curiosity. You’re a Senior Content Designer who loves creating deceptively simple software—the kinds of experiences that feel efficient, effortless, and rewarding because you’ve distilled every concept down to its purest form. You know the power of great information hierarchy, clear terminology, and navigation—and can speak to how carefully crafted UX flows can transform the customer journey from confusing to intuitively easy.You’ve contributed to products as part of an interdisciplinary product design team in cloud, business, enterprise, or developer spaces. With a diverse skillset and loads of experience, you are confident in your approach and ability to find the next best action independently. You collaborate with ease, are adept at influencing using optimism, a hunger for feedback, and a growth mindset.Your communication skills are interaction specific. If you’re thinking about words, you’re also envisioning the interface elements that will make the best choice seem most obvious. You understand the concept of reducing friction and offering guidance when needed. You know the value of using and contributing to AI guidelines, design patterns, and style guides to keep product teams aligned so content stays consistent, cohesive, and intentional.As a Content Designer on this product design team, you’ll be:Contributing to a coherent vision and experience strategy.Working within design systems and aligning business, brand, naming, messaging, and design strategies using your expertise across the broad domain of customer communications.Collaborating within and outside the design team to guide products from concept to launch.Presenting ideas and concepts at all stages of the design process.Driving terminology decision-making to bring an informed point of view, experience, and data/research.QualificationsRequired qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Arts, Humanities, Digital Communications, UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Communications, English, Journalism, or related field AND 3+ years experience in product or service design, copywriting, technical writing, or related fields.OR Master's Degree in a related field AND 2+ years experience working in product or service design or equivalent experience.Other Requirements:Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.Preferred qualifications:Demonstrated experience crafting product user interfaces across platforms.A portfolio of work showing experience creating user-centered design solutions.Fluency in design and prototyping tools—Figma, Sketch, or similar.Strong communication skills for driving impact-oriented collaboration.A growth mindset—quick to own mistakes and willing to explore ideas.Content Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. A different range applies to specific work locations. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 14, 2024.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances.
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