Job Description

The Commercial & Consumer Experience Studio is part of the Mixed Reality team. We are responsible for creating highly crafted and delightful experiences for HoloLens, Mixed Reality (VR) Headsets, and Controllers. Our goal is to keep people at the center of everything we do, blending the physical and digital world, to unlock the next evolution in human computer and environment interaction, unlocking what before was restricted to our imagination(s).

Our studio is looking for a Design Producer to collaborate across multiple disciplines and cross-functionally with multiple organizations: Engineering, Design, Program Management, and the Senior Leadership team. Producers excel at creating clarity and driving design excellence in often-changing and ambiguous environments.

We are a fun, creative, and diverse team that celebrates and embraces our differences, and we’d love to get to know YOU!

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Responsibilities

What You'll Do:

As Design Producer on our team, you will have the opportunity to manage three key areas:

Design Program Management— partners with Design Managers and Leads; works closely with Designers to create and refine briefs, facilitate Design reviews, and explore better ways to prototype creative solutions, ensuring we are building the best solutions for the right problems at the right time.

Production Quality Operations— responsible for creating efficiencies in the design and production process, enabling Designers to stay focused on delivering high quality experiences (that feel good) on time. This includes supporting teams in feature prioritization, work tracking, evangelizing our team’s work, and everything else that goes into delivering the work that our team does.

Creative Operations— work closely with our Executive Producer to drive our operational strategy and raise the bar of our practice. This includes building and overseeing our roadmap, and supporting organizational development efforts such as hiring and onboarding new team members.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Support Design, Engineering and PM partners to drive Design deliverables for each product cycle
• Drive the Design team's rhythm of business and operations
• Evaluate the team's Design processes to find efficiencies and create supporting documentation.
• Partner with Design Leads to identify capacity and help forecast for Design workloads; allocate work to Design contributors accordingly
• Manage Design work items, scope and requirements, work-back calendar/schedules, and Design deliverables
• Facilitate Design reviews and ensure action items are captured and communicated
• Keep a pulse on team health and morale; generate positive energy
• Propose new tools and processes to optimize on cross team collaboration
  
  

Qualifications

• Strong communication and organizational skills
• 5-7 years of relevant experience (bonus points if that experience is in games development as a producer, technical PM, designer or QA engineer)
• Experience managing projects and coordinating the efforts of multiple teams across the business
• Self-starter with demonstrable understanding of user experience and design
• Understands how to utilize design specialties and how/when to integrate with partnering teams (PM, engineering, and other Design disciplines)
• Experience managing features through on-going iteration, updates and bug fixes
• Customer-centric mindset with a solid understating of the importance of qualitative and quantitative user research
• Willingness to question established thinking in pursuit of better outcomes
  
  

Nice To Have

Not required, but let us know if you have experience of knowledge of the following:

• Familiarity and working knowledge of current Design and work management tools (Figma, Adobe suite, Azure DevOps or similar, and others)
• Awareness of inclusive Design and how it supports Microsoft's mission
  
  

These Requirements Include, But Are Not Limited To The Following Specialized Security Screenings

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  

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