Senior UX Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Feb 08, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Windows Design Systems team is looking for a Senior UX Engineer with exceptional visual design awareness and experience implementing successful user experiences. In this role, you will have the opportunity to impact the visual design expression of Windows and develop elegant user interfaces for Windows and AI integration. As a Senior UX Engineer, you will develop front end designs, specs, user interface systems, and partner with engineers to build out fully functioning features. You will generate ideation solutions, identify user needs and define product designs. You will develop prototypes to meet specific needs, solve challenges and get user feedback. This opportunity will allow you to work with designers to iterate designs during implementation, including listening to customer needs, driving accessibility and connecting Design and Engineering. You will liaise between Design and Engineering to deliver product requirements and drive consistency with existing codebases and design systems. On our team, UX Engineers are passionate about taking on new problems to drive progress and vision for design teams, excel at multi-tasking and time management, and work across disciplines to implement products and prototypes to bring design ideas to life. We are focused on crafting polished features and supporting the full product cycle: prototyping, consulting design and engineering teams, and implementing new features, keeping the UX coherent and aligned to design system thinking, as well as efficient, delightful and accessible to all users. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesAct as liaison and fill in gaps between design and engineering and develop and/or enable user interface prototypes, systems and solutions. Generate ideation solutions for complex products through design meetings to improve product designs and create clarity for other members of the team and develop functional prototypes to meet needs at hand and solve. complex challenges, building on previous work and emphasizing efficiencies. Implement pixel perfect user interfaces in collaboration with UX research, design and engineering teams.Identify user experience and technical issues while developing prototypes from functional/design specifications, brainstorm and prototype solutions, communicate findings to engineering, UX research and design stakeholders Participate in design reviews, code reviews, accessibility reviews, help identify issues and provide solutions.Provide technical input and inform project decisions on user experience development aligned with design systems thinking and accessibility Communicate a compelling, convincing product story to a specific audience, influencing those outside of design. | |