FrontEDGE Senior Interaction Designer, Zune (185885)

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Zune, the new entertainment business at Microsoft, will define the next generation of entertainment – a new way for people to engage with their games, music, and videos. Imagine if you could connect to your entertainment wherever you are, on the TV, on your portable media player, your Xbox, your PC or other devices—your entertainment at your fingertips. The Microsoft Entertainment Experience Group is the team that’s creating and building the user experience vision and strategy to make this a reality.

Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and strategically minded senior interaction designer to join our Design-Innovation team and help define our vision for entertainment related experiences. You are passionate about consumer focused innovation and interaction design as applied to the flow of user experience between both hardware and software.

You are comfortable managing projects that break new ground, you thrive in collaborative team environments and you are a versatile individual contributor. Your skills include idea & scenario generation, concept development and a solid working understanding of how to translate user needs, technical realities, brand attributes and business needs into compelling products that create a positive user experience.

As part of the core team you will play a key role in identifying, defining and prototyping opportunities for cross-platform, experience-led innovation in our Entertainment business. You will facilitate and lead multidisciplinary teams from across the organization, working with the existing product development and design teams to bring a focus on end-user experience to a wide range of next generation projects. In parallel, you will work alongside the Innovation team-leader to expand and develop our range of strategic tools, methods and processes for human focused innovation.

Your output will range from defining consumer value propositions and use-scenarios to hardware interaction and user interface design. You will be expected to engage heavily with our user-research team and have a strong hands-on involvement in the creation of content, IP and rapid-prototypes. You will be responsible for synthesizing and communicating results and will possess good skills in client relationship management.

We’re looking for proactive individuals who demonstrate a passion for understanding and affecting the entire consumer experience from purchase to use to recycle. Candidates should have an insatiable thirst for learning and a very real passion for making Microsoft’s products world class in their design and ease of use.

Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree in Interaction design, Industrial design or related discipline
  • Minimum 5 years work experience designing within a collaborative environment required
  • Proven experience and ability in strategic design and/or interaction design
  • Proven experience in collaborative user-centered design
  • Must possess excellent communication skills
  • Must have strong visualization and prototyping skills
  • Must have the ability to work in multidisciplinary teams across a wide range of projects
  • Must be highly organized, flexible, and positive

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workplace diversity.

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