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Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings. The Database Product Design Team is hiring a Product Designer II to help shape the next generation of developer and data experiences across Azure’s mission‑critical database portfolio. In this role, the designer will focus on Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s globally distributed NoSQL database that powers high‑scale, low‑latency cloud applications. They will collaborate with PM and Engineering partners to design intuitive, high‑quality product experiences across surfaces such as the Azure Portal, Microsoft Fabric, Visual Studio Code, and emerging AI‑assisted developer workflows.
Job Responsibility:
Contribute to the continuing growth of a highly successful design team
Collaborate with other designers to ensure consistency across experiences
Communicate, document, and represent design direction to team members, senior management, and key stakeholders
Ensure the experience vision is driven by a well-defined nucleus of user needs, tasks, marketing, and business requirements
Work with design, development, and program management teams to ensure interaction and visual designs communicate and function successfully for varying technical and performance specifications
Work with user researchers to coordinate testing efforts, interpret test results, and incorporate results into design efforts
Effectively communicate with developers through implementation phase to realize design vision
Embody our culture and values
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 3+ 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)
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ 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)
2+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process
Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills
Have superlative visual design skills, think conceptually about design, present excellent problem solving skills, and exercise the ability to work well in a collaborative team environment
Understand the array of technical constraints, user goals and business requirements that shape a product
Demonstrate ability to work confidently with Program Management, Development, Product Planning, Brand, Marketing and Usability
Proficiency with Figma or Sketch with an understanding of rapid prototyping platforms such as Invision or Principle
Experience working within and contributing to a structured design system
Strong organizational skills and an attention to detail
Additional proficiency and experience in any of the following skills: information visualization, illustration, motion graphics and animation, video, are not a requirement, but a plus