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Microsoft · 2 days ago

Senior Director, Design System Leader

Nevada, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Director

$162K/yr - $286K/yr

9+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Set and convey a vision and product roadmap for Microsoft’s Design System, including driving the AI strategy for our web componentry. Use a variety of techniques, such as emotional, data driven, and customer experience driven techniques to convey an idea. Lead product communication with senior leadership, cross-disciplinary teams, and studios through all stages of design and development.

Present direction for use across design systems from a company perspective (e.g., content templates, icons, form design, user-interface [UI] controls, navigation models, design trends). Provide high-level guidance for versioning of designs, consistencies, symbols, libraries, and builds upon artifacts created by others. Ensure that the team tracks an improvement in efficiency and collaboration through adoption and use of the system. Set guidelines, measures and governance for ensuring products are aligned with company-wide systems.

Lead interactions with key stakeholders (team, Engineering, PM, User Research, etc.) to successfully align design solutions to business, technical, and user requirements. Lead interactions with Engineering to ensure implemented designs align to design specifications. Direct collaboration with senior developers and leadership to iterate further on designs during implementation to ensure optimal designs. Act as the owner approving readiness from a design perspective.

Provide thought leadership to the team regarding storytelling, while connecting the story to relevant designs across the company. Communicates a compelling, convincing product story to a variety of audiences in a way that inspires excitement and support of the product, and influences buy in from key stakeholders.

Lead workstreams with creative team members, program managers, and developers across the organization to define and iterate on new and existing product features, as well as to make decisions with leadership, team members, and external partners. Ensures that feedback is sought out and asked for to promote optimal product designs across the company. Provides expertise-level perspective on how to build on and leverage previous work.

Lead both creative and dev teams for the Design System Team and serve as a subject matter expert for ideation to generate complex solutions for complex products (e.g., involving many constraints, needing workarounds, requiring holistic view of interconnected systems) to improve the design system. Manage complexities and provides leadership on the strategic utilization of a variety of perspectives when ideating (e.g., technology, business, marketing).

Manage a high performing team, delivering success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.

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Required

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 9+ years experience working in product or service design

OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 7+ years experience working in product or service design

OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)

5+ years people management experience

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 15+ years experience working in product or service design

OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 12+ years experience working in product or service design

OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)

7+ years people management experience

8+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process

Benefits

Benefits and other compensation available. More information can be found at: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Company

Microsoft

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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

Founded in 1975

Redmond, Washington, USA

10,001+ employees

https://www.microsoft.com

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