Microsoft Positions
Positions Office Design is looking to fill...
1 - Design Intern (12 week position - June 14 - Sept 6, 2004)
5 - Full time designers
1 - Full time research/usability engineer
Product Design:
Chances are you spend more time in front of Office than you do your car
or TV. And if you're like us, you can always find room for improvement.
Help us improve and innovate the design of the most used product in the
world - Microsoft Office. The Office design team seeks product designers
with strong visual design skills to take Office to the next level.
Whether it's improving existing products, inventing entire new products
or building web services, the need for exciting and new interaction
design is skyrocketing. To keep up with the demand and make our already
popular product even more successful, we need your contribution. You'll
be working along side the world's best usability engineers, program
managers, product planners and developers. Together you'll research,
design and prototype solutions that are not only useful, usable and
desirable, but also exciting, new and emotionally engaging. Strong
problem solving with balanced interaction and visual design skills
required. Candidates must evidence solid design process, integrating
user research and usability evaluation throughout. Taking design
solution from hand sketched ideas to interactive Director, FrontPage or
Flash prototypes expected. HTML, lingo scripting highly valued.
Tremendous drive, energy and initiative are critical. Communication
skills and self confidence needed as you work with tons of smart,
passionate people everyday. Face it - you went into design because you
wanted to make a difference. Start by making a difference to the 200
million Office users around the world. Launch or boost your career in a
place with impact -- Become a member of the Microsoft Office Design
team. Design degree and portfolio required.
Usability Engineer:
The Office Design Group is seeking an experienced usability engineer.
The position requires conducting design research for product teams
within Office. Usability engineers make Microsoft Office System easy and
pleasurable to use. Their research is focused on understanding work
practice and identifying the best design implementation for all of our
customers. They provide and analyze empirical data to shape product
design direction and implementation. These data are produced from usage
logs, by doing ethnographic research, surveys, user performance
benchmarking, discount usability engineering, such as rapid iterative
testing and a host of other techniques. Qualifications: Undergraduate
and/or advanced degrees in human computer interaction, human factors,
computer science or industrial engineering. The successful candidate
will have 5 years industry experience designing software products.
Candidates should have a thorough knowledge of methods for gathering and
analyzing design research data. The candidate must be able to solve
complex design problems in a multidisciplinary team, deal with
ambiguity, take action and drive design research for a product used by
millions of people around the world.
Additional follow-up interviews may be scheduled for Saturday.
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