Design & User Experience
Leads to: Chief Design Officer / Chief Product Officer
13
Functions
25
Families
185
Roles
44
Skills
Functions
Each function groups job families with their career ladders.
| Function | Families | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| UX Engineering | 2 | 17 |
| UX Research | 2 | 17 |
| Accessibility | 2 | 15 |
| Content Design | 2 | 15 |
| Conversation Design | 2 | 15 |
| Design Systems | 2 | 15 |
| Information Architecture | 2 | 15 |
| Product Design | 2 | 15 |
| Service Design | 2 | 15 |
| UX Design | 2 | 15 |
| Visual Design | 2 | 15 |
| Design Operations | 2 | 14 |
| Enterprise Executive Leadership | 1 | 2 |
Career paths
No paths have been written for this area yet.
Skills
The skills this area’s roles ask for most.
- Business acumenBusiness & Strategy185 roles
- Design thinkingProduct & Design185 roles
- Human-centered designProduct & Design185 roles
- Information architectureProduct & Design185 roles
- Interaction designProduct & Design185 roles
- PrototypingProduct & Design185 roles
- UX researchProduct & Design185 roles
- Usability testingProduct & Design185 roles
- Stakeholder managementCommunication & Influence100 roles
- CoachingCollaboration & Leadership98 roles
- Conflict resolutionCommunication & Influence98 roles
- Decision makingThinking & Judgment98 roles
Source: Microsoft Careers; ONET