About the company and the team At Microsoft, we have bold ambitions: Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. To make that a reality, Cloud + AI Design Studios are charged with driving the strategy that turns a product vision into action. How? By designing inclusive environments that promote creative exploration and building productivity frameworks that allow Design to operate at the peak of efficiency and effectiveness. This role supports the director of the Cloud + AI Studios Content Design Group, our managers' team, and our individual UX Content Designers across the Business Applications and Azure product groups. About the role Microsoft Cloud + AI Design Studio is looking for a customer-focused Design Producer II to join the DesignOps team to help drive design across AI, Dynamics 365, our Power Platform, business applications, Azure, and cloud tools. Our team's vision is to create professional, seamless, and friction-free experiences that enable our
Responsibilities As a Design Producer II, you'll have the following 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 process 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
Qualifications Required Strong communication and organizational skills 3-5 years of relevant experience 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, data science, marketing, and content teams) Customer-centric mindset with a solid understating of the importance of qualitative and quantitative research Preferred Familiarity and working knowledge of current design