Cambridge Residency Programme: Ai Design Researcher

2 weeks ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Microsoft Full time

We are looking for a talented designer who can help us research and create AI systems and experiences that don’t just work for the majority, but instead are equitable to marginalized groups, including people with disabilities or those living in the Global South.

This 2-year residency offers a unique opportunity to contribute to state-of-the-art research at the intersection of AI and human-computer interaction in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team. This role includes:

- Facilitating communication between researchers from different disciplines and contexts through, for example, workshops
- Conceptualizing and developing innovative AI experiences
- Prototyping, iterating and testing AI experiences
- Designing for inclusion through working directly with users
- Developing showables / materials to help the team innovate as well as engage external audiences

**Responsibilities**:

- Plan and carry out activities to support interaction and ideation between people on a multi-disciplinary team
- Propose creative solutions to complex user experience journeys, drawing on your ability to map end-to-end experiences
- Create wireframes, journey maps, personas and scenarios in support of interaction designs
- Plan, carry-out and facilitate qualitative user research (user studies, workshops, focus groups, usability tests)
- Develop showables / materials to help the team innovation process and engage external audiences

**Qualifications**:
**Required**
- Masters or PhD in design, human-computer interaction or related discipline
- Ability to lead ideation activities to support multi-disciplinary team working
- Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment
- Strong visual and/or auditory design skills
- Ability to synthesize findings and requirements from user research or product partners

**Desired**
- Experience designing AI system interfaces
- Budding leadership capability to drive own work in the context of the team goals
- Experience engaging with people from marginalized communities.



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