Overview In this senior IC Design Architect role, you tackle highly strategic, cross-cutting design challenges at the center of Microsoft Security. You will move from deep user research to design thinking and prototyping, then lead cross-functional teams to ship validated solutions. You'll shape direction where none exists and scale complex problems across multiple teams. This is a mission-driven opportunity to impact security experiences for enterprises and users at scale.
Responsibilities- Own broad, cross-cutting Security UX design challenges across the product area.
- Lead design thinking, concepting, and high-fidelity prototyping to validate solutions with customers.
- Provide cross-functional leadership aligning design, product, research, and engineering to ship experiences.
- Tackle emerging cross-cutting problems with structure and momentum across teams.
- Scale the team's strategic capacity so complex problems aren't tied to a single designer.
Key requirements- Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, HCI, UX, Interaction Design, or related field AND 7+ years in product or service design
- or Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, HCI, UX, Interaction Design, or related field AND 9+ years in product or service design
- equivalent experience in product or service design or using design thinking
- cross-functional leadership
- ability to work in ambiguity
- strong communication
- user research
- interaction design
- experience design
