JI: referral from Steve Sommer. Julie and I spoke to Mark this am at 11am.

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Client: Microsoft (T&M)

Name of Group: Developer Services Division- Building 17

Hiring Manager: Mark Mclaughlin- Design Manager

Title of Role: Sr Technical UX Designer (is this really a Sr. UX Designer role) Per client: This is a generic title. This is a technical team. Very developer centric. People who have worked on developer tools. Experience using the tools themselves. Sr. Interaction Designer. Portfolio is mandatory. People who have github profiles are mandatory or other samples that demonstrate your experience using some of these tools. Being able to demonstrate that they have built stuff. Must be very comfortable with Github.

Location: Onsite- Building 17 (Redmond) – Per client: onsite 40 hours per week. We are flexible work life balance, but the work needs to be done onsite

Duration: 18 months

Bill Rate: 80-110 per hour. 110/62 ideal! If someone magical we can consider them. There is another design area in San Francisco so if they are in SF that could potentially work.

Equipment: We provide – we use cloud based tools. Figma is the main design tool we use. It is run on the cloud, familiarity with Figma is great, but could be something we can train.

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

What is the purpose of this assignment?

Working with the Developer services division to help build fast, fresh, powerful and fun products for developers. This role: the product is currently VS team services. Tools that help developers manage code, etc. Agile how they track bugs, manage work items. Competitores would be Jira or Trello. Agile process environment is important. Being familiar with an agile environment is required. As they come in there is a backlog of features. With github coming on board (publicaly announced, but deal has not been closed as of yet. Forward thinking. Big push today is to spread the net wider other than Microsoft window product. Product will facilitate a wider range of develpers, not just windows. Good oppty for someone to come in where everything is up for grabs. People in Windows use it, looking to cast a wider net other than just windows. Anyone who has worked at MS before has used this product.

What are the specific responsibilities of this role? Candidate will ask: What am I going to be doing in this role Client Response

· What are the specific responsibilities of this role? Client Response:

Senior Technical Product Designers are expected to consider each project holistically incorporating user requirements, business needs, technical constraints, and brand aspirations, to design compelling user flows down to the finest details.

Due to the technical nature of developer products, designers in this space need to be familiar with and passionate about technical tools and services. Senior Tech Product Designers must be adept at distilling complex tasks into clean, simple, and opinionated user intefaces that place the user’s needs at the core of the design.

In this role, you’ll own the design of projects from writing the initial brief with stakeholders, to executing the design, through advising engineering on implementation, and iteratively evolving the design. You’ll work closely with visual designers, user researchers, and developers to improve existing products, and bring exciting new products to life. You should be a strong communicator with deep experience in dev tools, able to share your knowledge and insight with both your partners in product management and engineering, as well as other members of the design team. Per client: Must haves: other candidates have worked with VS code. Unity. Nothing specifical is required. Tools that is used in construction of end user experience.

Designing development tools requires a practical, hands-on understanding of software development, so at some point in your life you’ll have written code., whether it was part of a job, a hobby or during education. This is not a development role. Familiar with the tools is fine.

MUST HAVES: having worked in a team that has agile methodologies is required. Commonplace is VS Code (Visual Studio Code) github and VS Code are great key words.

If you are enthusiastic about building awesome experiences that will be used by millions of developers to build applications and love discussing technology and software development as much as you love discussing design, this is the perfect job for you.

As a Senior Technical Product Designer, you will:

Bring together project design requirements from Product Managers, Engineers and User Researchers, distill into a design brief and then agree the brief with all stakeholders

Facilitate project kickoff and requirement gathering workshops, leading collaborative exploration of the design problem space with engineers and product managers

Utilize your expertise in design thinking to delve into problems and find the best solutions that meet both user needs and business objectives

Provide sketches, wireframes, information architectures, protypes, user flows (use cases, activity diagrams) and non-functional specifications for visual designers and implementation teams as appropriate

Clearly and systematically manage design scope in a timely fashion to facilitate progress and ensure that delivered designs are implementable within constraints

Collaborate with your peers in User Research and Testing to design solutions to fulfill user needs or identified gaps

Review and validate work with peers, stakeholders and users throughout the UX Design process, maintaining communication with key team members

Pitch design solutions to stakeholders, explaining and rationalizing design decisions to audiences outside of the design team

Work with developers to iterate on designs during implementation Maintain an open communication channel with front-end and back-end engineers to ensure products are delivered to a high standard

Continually watch for and identify ways to improve and evolve the design process and communication with groups outside the design team

Mentor, motivate, encourage and lead less experienced members of the team

Prioritize and work in an agile, iterative way

· Will this person be working alone or as part of a team? Client Response.

Required Skills (Our Recruiters will not send any candidates to you unless they have the following skills) MUST HAVES!!!!!!Client Response:

Min of 5 years’ experience as a user experience designer working on software products

A background in software engineering; you’ll have previously written code either for your career, a hobby or education – appreciation of the tools we build and who would use them and why. Developer background is great. More about appreciation of the space we work in. You would not be doing development work. They have a huge engineering team. Have you ever built anything interactive. I have been on a team designing software fits. I didn’t build it but I know what they do and how to work in this type of environment.

A strong portfolio of UX design work demonstrating expertise with a wide design range of UX design techniques

Proven experience designing software product UX in an iterative development environment

Lateral problem-solving skills. You’ll need to be able to identify possible solutions that are outside of the obvious design space – realm of fabulous opportyuy to rethink a large chunk of the product right now.

Ability to clearly and succulently present UX design concepts and explain design thinking to engineering and product management stakeholders

A deep understanding of design patterns, and pattern development

NICE TO HAVE:

Experience working client side as a UX Designer on products at a software development company

· Are you looking for someone with a minimum amount of years of experience to be considered for this role? (Entry/Jr, Mid-Level or Senior-Level) Client Response:

· Are there specific tools this person will needs to be proficient with? If so, what are they? Client Response:

· If a candidate is lacking experience with a specific tool, are there any tools that you would consider similar enough to still be considered for this role? Client Response:

Mark phone screen first, then in person interview with panel.

Been open since Thursday – working with 4 other firms.

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