We are a team of User Experience (UX) professionals spanning Product Design, UX Research, Content Design, and UX Engineering. Together with our PM and Engineering partners, we create product experiences that are trusted, human-centered, and easy to use-enabling our users to manage, protect, and secure their digital environments with peace of mind.
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
Microsoft Security’s product portfolio is vast, with experiences that span from the security professional to the consumer. We’ve recently set out to unify our experiences to a common design system comprised of shared Figma UI kits, guidance, and common React component libraries that are open-source, open-contribution, and consumable by all product teams. We’re collaborating closely across disciplines, product teams, and organizations within Microsoft to extend Microsoft Fluent based on the unique needs of our users.
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction or related field AND 2+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code
- OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science , Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code
- OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science , Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code
- 2+ years experience shipping production-ready code as a result of a collaborative process.
- Experience with Figma and coding in React
UX Engineering IC3 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 – $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $120,900 – $198,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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Responsibilities:
To help achieve this goal, we’re looking for a passionate, detail-oriented UX Engineer II who can craft our collective vision through code while being an influential liaison between the UX and Engineering teams to up-level our quality across the organization-building consistent, intuitive, and accessible experiences leveraging modern aesthetics and the latest generative AI technology while continually improving based on telemetry and customer feedback. If you are curious and have a passion for complexity, come join our multidisciplinary team of creatives who are transforming the workplace.
- Acts as a liaison and fills in gaps between design and engineering. Deepens knowledge of engineering fundamentals (e.g., interpreting designs, writing code, working with source control).
- Develops and enables front end design solutions, technical prototypes, tooling, and user interface systems (e.g., controls, animation libraries, utilities).
- Builds out Figma UI components with code so they can be used by engineers.
- Leverages techniques to make designs accessible, performance oriented, and reusable.
- Collaborates with product owners and development team members to shepherd end-to-end experiences from concept to product shipment for products.
- Presents to teams (e.g., Design and Engineering) and customers to receive feedback and understand user needs.
- Interacts with Engineering for successful design implementation and performs Quality Assurances (QAs) to help them ensure “pixel perfect” designs.
- Works with developers to iterate further on designs during implementation to ensure optimal designs. Develops an aptitude on limitations of what is implementable and begins to challenge these limitations.
- Build and maintain tools and platforms.
- Uses prescribed codebases and design systems (e.g., content templates, icons, form design, UI controls, navigation models).
- Shares learnings and collaborates with other designers to share education for team improvements.
- Contributes to existing codebases, design systems, and themes; connects ideas across teams.
- Helps organize communication with Engineering and feature teams outside of core team through all stages of design and development.
- Influences both designer and non-designer collaborators.