At Microsoft, we believe that UX design only becomes great when language is straightforward, clear, and designed to flow naturally from one concept to the next. That’s where you come in. The Azure Edge and Platform Experience design studio is looking for a Content Designer 1 to elevate the user experience for Azure the world’s computer. As a part of a multidisciplinary studio, you’ll be collaborating on Microsoft Azure experiences like Azure monitoring, edge computing, incident management and more. Join us, and you’ll be part of a dynamic studio delivering customer-centric, elegant solutions for businesses that are betting their future on the cloud. #CloudDesignStudio

Passionate about simplifying technology? Same.

Complexity brings out your curiosity.  You’re Content Designer who loves creating deceptively simple software—the kinds of experiences that feel effortless and rewarding because you’ve distilled every concept down to its purest, simplest form. You know the power of great information hierarchy, clear terminology, and navigation—and can speak to how carefully crafted UX flows can transform the customer journey from confusing to intuitive. And you know how important insights from research and data are for great content design. You love collaboration, and bring loads of optimism, a hunger for feedback, a retractable ego, and a growth mindset.

Dropdown or radio buttons? UI text or tooltip?

You understand UX concepts like drilling down, reducing friction, and offering bits of guidance right when—and only when—it’s needed. You know how to use and contribute to style guides to stay aligned with guidance with all your experiences.

Cross-functional, full-stack product design teams

You’ll be part of a product design team, studio, and organization that believes in the power of inclusion, diversity of ideas and people, work/life balance, and the sheer joy of solving hard problems. We’re nurturing a collaborative culture where everyone can flourish, learn, and innovate—even through the most challenging times.

Our Content Designers apply their core design skills of content strategy, information architecture, interaction design fundamentals, and digital communication to deliver great product design. You’ll collaboratively design and shape the entire user journey—making every step in the customer’s workflow easy to understand and championing Microsoft’s brand voice principles: crisp and clear, warm and approachable, and ready to lend a hand.

Responsibilities

What to expect from this role

As a Content Designer for this product design team, you’ll be:

An equal partner in creating a coherent vision and experience strategy for a family of products.

Planning, crafting, and refining in-product content, including names, terms, and user-flow messaging.

Testing, validating, and adapting content and designs for the next iteration—some wins will be fast, and others may feel like they take forever to land.

Helping to improve and define best practices for the content design discipline in Azure, including contributing to style guides and design systems.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Arts, Design, Marketing, Digital Communications, UX Design, Human Computer Interaction, Communications, English, Journalism, or a related field.

1 year of professional or internship experience in content design or UX writing

Demonstrated experience crafting product user interface language in applications or web-based services.

A portfolio of work demonstrating experience creating user-centered design solutions.

Familiarity with design and prototyping tools—Figma, Sketch, or similar.

Familiarity with user research-informed and data-driven content design.

Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  Microsoft Cloud Background Check:  This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional Details:

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.