Job Category: Software Engineering: Creative
Location: Seattle, WA, US
Job ID: 848606-121862
Division: Devices and Studios Engineering
Description
Do you want to work on something that millions of people, including your friends and family, will use and enjoy? Do you want to deliver key innovations to revolutionary consumer products built on the latest technology including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, and Xbox LIVE to name a few? Does working in Seattle or Paris sound exciting to you? Do you want to work with people world-wide in those flagship cities who share your passion for entertainment experiences with Music, Movies, and TV and view their job as an opportunity to create something they’ll personally love to use across a variety of form factors? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then the Xbox Music and Video team would love to talk to you.
This team has been brought together as THE Microsoft team laser-focused to deliver the next generation of Music and Video Entertainment experiences across devices powered by the services and magic of Xbox LIVE.
MVA Design is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to join our team to help us reinvent media experiences, powered by the cloud, and available across multiple screens. You have demonstrated ability to effectively partner with product planners and managers, program managers and development and test team members to shepherd end to end experiences from concept to ship. You have knowledge of natural user interface (NUI) paradigms and have experience in designing experiences with multiple input modalities. You are a great creator, collaborator, and communicator.
Primary Responsibilities include:
- Lead/facilitate design brainstorming and work sessions
- Produce mood boards, storyboards, design briefs, sketching, visual language guidelines, motion studies and other artifacts required to develop and evolve user experience designs
- Work (primarily) with interaction, motion and integration (prototype) designers to ensure the visual design enhances the overall user experience
- Work with brand designers to ensure the visual design is reflective of and additive to the brand strategy
- 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
- Communicate, defend, and build consensus around visual + motion definition and design direction
- Working with the Creative Director, Project Lead a significant experience design effort within IEB Design’s portfolio of projects
Qualifications include:
- Qualified candidates should have at least 5-7 years of product design experience
- Extremely strong visual sensibilities, ability to use visual thinking, storyboards, sketching, and communication design to create breakthrough interaction design
- Deep understanding of fundamental visual design disciplines (typography, iconography, composition, color, composition, layout, etc.)
- Expertise creating a variety of visual design documents including mood boards, storyboards, creative briefs, motion studies, and visual style guidelines
- Expertise creating/managing the creation of a variety of interaction design documents including user scenarios, task flows, conceptual models, competitor analysis, heuristic analysis, and annotated wireframes
- Meticulous sense of detail and ability to seek out simple solutions to complex design challenges.
- Always approach a project from multiple angles, and deliver a variety of solutions.
- Familiarity with user scenarios, task flows, conceptual models, competitor analysis, and heuristic analysis
- Experience managing multi-discipline design teams and design vendors in shipping compelling user experiences
- Experience in developing and conducting a variety of both qualitative and quantitative research including ethnographic research, contextual inquiries, guided explorations, and usability testing
- Exposure to and understanding of variety of design, project management, and development processes and methodologies including agile development methods
- Experience shipping innovative and complex mobile, web or software products within milestone deadlines
- Experience in delivering production assets to development counterpart on time and with quality
- Fluency in current entertainment and social media trends
- Demonstrable ability to work confidently with Program Management, Development, Product Planning, Brand, Marketing and Usability
- Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills
- Possess ability to think conceptually about design
- Understand the array of technical constraints, user goals and business requirements that shape current and future products
- Proficiency with, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and all related business and design tools; minimally, familiarity with motion programs such as Maya and/or 3D Studio
- Ability to quickly produce stunning and elegant visual treatments and/or motion studies
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Strong organizational skills and an attention to detail
- A minimum of a BA/BS degree in Graphic Design, Communication Design, Interface Design, Interaction Design, or equivalent experience
*Portfolio review required
J2WERPL1
Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Job Segments: Engineer, Graphic Design, Program Manager, Cloud, Software Engineer, Engineering, Creative, Management, Technolog
y
Location: Seattle, WA, US
Job ID: 848606-121862
Division: Devices and Studios Engineering
Description
Do you want to work on something that millions of people, including your friends and family, will use and enjoy? Do you want to deliver key innovations to revolutionary consumer products built on the latest technology including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, and Xbox LIVE to name a few? Does working in Seattle or Paris sound exciting to you? Do you want to work with people world-wide in those flagship cities who share your passion for entertainment experiences with Music, Movies, and TV and view their job as an opportunity to create something they’ll personally love to use across a variety of form factors? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then the Xbox Music and Video team would love to talk to you.
This team has been brought together as THE Microsoft team laser-focused to deliver the next generation of Music and Video Entertainment experiences across devices powered by the services and magic of Xbox LIVE.
MVA Design is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to join our team to help us reinvent media experiences, powered by the cloud, and available across multiple screens. You have demonstrated ability to effectively partner with product planners and managers, program managers and development and test team members to shepherd end to end experiences from concept to ship. You have knowledge of natural user interface (NUI) paradigms and have experience in designing experiences with multiple input modalities. You are a great creator, collaborator, and communicator.
Primary Responsibilities include:
- Lead/facilitate design brainstorming and work sessions
- Produce mood boards, storyboards, design briefs, sketching, visual language guidelines, motion studies and other artifacts required to develop and evolve user experience designs
- Work (primarily) with interaction, motion and integration (prototype) designers to ensure the visual design enhances the overall user experience
- Work with brand designers to ensure the visual design is reflective of and additive to the brand strategy
- 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
- Communicate, defend, and build consensus around visual + motion definition and design direction
- Working with the Creative Director, Project Lead a significant experience design effort within IEB Design’s portfolio of projects
Qualifications include:
- Qualified candidates should have at least 5-7 years of product design experience
- Extremely strong visual sensibilities, ability to use visual thinking, storyboards, sketching, and communication design to create breakthrough interaction design
- Deep understanding of fundamental visual design disciplines (typography, iconography, composition, color, composition, layout, etc.)
- Expertise creating a variety of visual design documents including mood boards, storyboards, creative briefs, motion studies, and visual style guidelines
- Expertise creating/managing the creation of a variety of interaction design documents including user scenarios, task flows, conceptual models, competitor analysis, heuristic analysis, and annotated wireframes
- Meticulous sense of detail and ability to seek out simple solutions to complex design challenges.
- Always approach a project from multiple angles, and deliver a variety of solutions.
- Familiarity with user scenarios, task flows, conceptual models, competitor analysis, and heuristic analysis
- Experience managing multi-discipline design teams and design vendors in shipping compelling user experiences
- Experience in developing and conducting a variety of both qualitative and quantitative research including ethnographic research, contextual inquiries, guided explorations, and usability testing
- Exposure to and understanding of variety of design, project management, and development processes and methodologies including agile development methods
- Experience shipping innovative and complex mobile, web or software products within milestone deadlines
- Experience in delivering production assets to development counterpart on time and with quality
- Fluency in current entertainment and social media trends
- Demonstrable ability to work confidently with Program Management, Development, Product Planning, Brand, Marketing and Usability
- Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills
- Possess ability to think conceptually about design
- Understand the array of technical constraints, user goals and business requirements that shape current and future products
- Proficiency with, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and all related business and design tools; minimally, familiarity with motion programs such as Maya and/or 3D Studio
- Ability to quickly produce stunning and elegant visual treatments and/or motion studies
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Strong organizational skills and an attention to detail
- A minimum of a BA/BS degree in Graphic Design, Communication Design, Interface Design, Interaction Design, or equivalent experience
*Portfolio review required
J2WERPL1
Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Job Segments: Engineer, Graphic Design, Program Manager, Cloud, Software Engineer, Engineering, Creative, Management, Technolog
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