Product Designer II—Fluent Design System (web)

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Fluent is Microsoft’s design system—expressive, natural on every platform, and uniquely Microsoft. It’s a complete design-to-code system that empowers hundreds of internal teams and external developers to be more productive and craft beautiful software.  

As a Product Designer for Fluent, you’ll help define, design, and document our design language, core components, and patterns. You’ll work alongside product managers and engineering teams to explore, build, and launch your ideas.

Our team manages our style guide and the documentation you see on fluent.microsoft.com, our React component library, as well as the education and advocacy for the design system both internally with teams within Microsoft and externally with our partners building apps using Fluent for the Microsoft ecosystem.

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Responsibilities

• Help our team build a best-in-class design system that supports our cross-platform experiences.
• Collaborate directly with designers and engineers to ensure that the designed components are robust for implementation.
• Write usage guidelines for system components and patterns that set both design and engineering up for success.
• Be a core contributor to our Figma libraries through component creations, updates, and cross-team communications.
• Work closely with product teams on the consistency of user experiences.
• Evangelize the usage of the design system and review UserVoice feedback for constant improvement of the system.
  

Qualifications

• Essential qualifications 
• 3+ years of experience in the design industry, branding, system design, user experience
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates deep systems thinking and user-centered design 
  

 

• Preferred qualifications 
• A strong understanding of industry-standard designer workflows and tooling
• Ability to work effectively cross-functionally with other teams (Design, Engineering, PM)
• Understand experience quality bar and keep multidisciplinary teams focused on achieving at that level  
• Passion for building highly scalable solutions and services 
• Experience with iterative development and engineering processes 
• Hands on designer who has proficiency in the tool chain - Figma is our main tool 
  

 

• Interpersonal skills 
• Growth mindset with a desire to continuously learn 
• Desire to help create a diverse and inclusive culture  
• Highly collaborative across multiple disciplines and product groups 
  

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.

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Industry

• Computer Hardware  
• Computer Software  
• Information Technology & Services
  

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Functions

• Design 
  

 

• Art/Creative 
  

 

• Information Technology