Product Designer

About Ascendion :

Ascendion is a full service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently engineer the next.

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About the Role:

Position: Product Designer

Location: Remote (Canada)

Summary:

The Microsoft AI Design & Research team is a group of designers, researchers, UX writers, UX engineers, and CreativeOps. Our mission is to create holistic customer experiences and innovate future web experiences. We work on projects like Copilot, Edge, Bing, and apps, covering shopping, search, ads, news, sports, and gaming. Our diverse team collaborates to quickly build seamless and enjoyable experiences for billions of customers worldwide.

• Key projects:

This role will contribute to

• MSN – Consumption/Gen Z Growth
• MSN - Ruby

Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm:

• Exploring visual design for various MSN features and experiences
• Building prototypes to refine ideas or for user research sessions

Top Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

• Prototyping in Figma/After Effects/Protopie/Framer/any other prototyping tool - 3+ YOE
• Design system experience (whether as a consumer of one or a contributor to one) - 5+ YOE
• Great Visual Design and Storytelling - 5+ YOE

The Role

• We are seeking a multi-skilled Product Designer with proficiency in visual design, experience design, interface construction, branding, and storytelling. We are looking for a designer who has demonstrated the ability to effectively partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers.
• This role is for our MSN Feeds and News space and will help us redefine how MSN customers read news, with the help of AI to increase topic comprehension, spot misinformation, and limit bias in news coverage.
• Portfolio/Reel review is required and previous experience working at Microsoft or equivalent large company will help to be successful in this role.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with research, product managers and engineering to guide end-to-end experiences from concept to ship, ensuring successful design implementation.
• Understands customer needs and motivations and integrates them into product design to contribute to user features and functionality.
• Creates visual design documents and develops wireframes, journey maps, task flows, and personas for interaction designs, using a prescribed design system.
• Communicates proactively with peers and managers, organizes cross-disciplinary communication, and manages tone, respect, and inclusivity in all communications, contributing to the success of others.

Qualifications

• 5+ years work related experience required.
• Strong knowledge of user interface and functionality design required.
• Strong creative skills and ability to generate design ideas required.
• Experience creating and implementing usability studies, personas, user flows, wireframes, style guides, navigational structures, and affinity diagrams is required.
• Proficiency in current and emerging web technologies and standard design software packages (i.e. Figma)
• Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.

Salary Range: $120,000 to 135,000 Annually Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [0910 days/hours of paid time off]

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