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Product Design: Internship Opportunities
Overview
Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.
As a Product Design Intern you will assist with defining specific product needs based on user insights; ideates to define solutions to meet user needs. Create and develop design concepts and specifications that optimize the emotional and functional experience of a product, software, device, or service. Focus on end-to-end user experiences, empathizing and balancing experiences with business and technical tradeoffs. Produce visual designs from concept through delivery and sustainment, supports interaction designs for hardware and/or software-based experiences, and/or contributes to hardware product designs. Contribute to broader design system, increasing its adoption and consistent usage.
At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. Youll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.
Microsofts 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.
Responsibilities
Seeks information about the customer through research (e.g., reads customer publications, speaks with peers and customers) to learn about their business, needs, and strategy and keeps up to date with customer business and business outcomes. Communicates customer insights to internal teams (e.g., Engineering, Specialists, Account teams).
Engages with and/or leverages relevant partners to support business outcomes as appropriate. Identifies appropriate partner and jointly develops a plan for the play based on a shared understanding of the customer.
Coordinates internal peers across functions to support business outcomes and enable execution of customer success through One Microsoft. Identifies and begins developing relationships with customer team members.
Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC) and Partner by learning to identify and share feedback around technical capabilities, blockers, and insights that relate to the customer with internal teams (e.g., Engineering). Responds to feedback and supports positive change within Microsoft.
Leverages development opportunities (e.g., mentorships, role-based resources, trainings) and builds partnerships with technical teams (e.g., Cloud Solutions Architects, Fastrack, Engineering) to build own Customer Success discipline expertise, including product and required technical skills.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Candidate must be enrolled in a full time bachelors or masters program in an area relevant for the role during the academic term immediately before their internship.
Must have at least one semester or term of school remaining following the completion of the internship.
The base pay range for this internship is USD $5610.00 - $11010.00 per month. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $7270.00 - $12030.00 per month. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here.
Microsoft accepts applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis throughout the academic calendar (September - April). This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
