Senior Product Designer

53 Minutes ago • 4-5 Years • Product Design • $117,200 PA - $229,200 PA

About the job

Job Description

Microsoft seeks a Senior Product Designer to contribute to the design direction of its AI products and experiences. This role requires leading design on projects with significant visibility and complexity, mentoring junior designers, and collaborating closely with engineering and marketing teams. The ideal candidate possesses strong visual design skills, interaction design expertise, and a deep understanding of user experience principles. Responsibilities encompass crafting compelling user stories, driving projects from ideation to launch, and upholding high design standards across the organization. The role demands a proactive, results-oriented approach, using rapid prototyping and testing to deliver impactful products. The focus is on building cohesive, user-centric experiences across Microsoft's AI ecosystem.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience in product design
  • Mastery of visual & interaction design
  • Excellent communication & presentation skills
  • Figma proficiency
  • Experience mentoring designers
  • Strong user empathy
Good to have:
  • Experience with Design Systems
  • Experience in accessibility and inclusive design
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Overview

If you’re passionate about technology, have a knack for creative ideas, and lead with a growth mindset, we want to hear from you. 

The Microsoft AI Design & Research team is a creative community of designers and researchers on a mission to create and deliver holistic customer experiences while imagining the future of web experiences. Between Copilot, Edge, Bing, and apps, we’re creating end to end web experiences from shopping, to search, to ads, news, sports, and gaming. Our diverse team works collaboratively to create products and ideas that empower us to move fast to build seamless and delightful experiences for billions of customers worldwide. Join us!    

We’re building a culture based on learning and creating meaningful experiences for our customers. We are seeking multi-skilled Sr. Product Designer with a mastery of visual design, experience design, interface construction, branding, and storytelling. We’re looking for a designer who’s driven by empathy for customers, and the desire to carry ideas from rough ideas to launch. The right candidate works independently and is a passionate collaborator with other design teams, engineering teams and marketing groups.  

Finally, this designer defaults to a making and building mindset – when in doubt we build something and test it. Embracing quick prototyping and testing is a must.  

 

Qualifications

Required Qualificiatons

  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design
    • OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design
    • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)

Preferred Qualifications 

  • 5+ years experience working in product or service design 
  • Demonstrated sense of interaction design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design  
  • Strong visual design skills  
  • Excellent communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas  
  • Experience designing in Figma 
  • Exceptional craft
  • Experience mentoring other designers
  • Have the ability to fill in the gaps and missing pieces in order to drive the bigger picture
  • Experience working within a robust Design System

Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 30, 2025. 

 

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Responsibilities

 

  • Contributes to design’s direction for area of accountability and executes design set by others 
  • Leads design on a product with moderate to high visibility, risk, and/or complexity 
  • Develops talent as a manager, mentor, onboarding buddy, coach, and sets the standard for excellent design  
  • Holds bar for craft across design, PM and Engineering within a major product area  
  • Contributes and partners with other major area leaders to ensure product coherence, erasing organizational boundaries from the experience 
  • Embrace and lead across all of culture models (e.g., demonstrates customer obsession) 
  • Contributes to broader MAI team culture (e.g., mentorship, onboarding buddy, team morale, ERGs/clubs) 
  • Understands and acts upon their role in creating a Diversity and Inclusion workplace at Microsoft  
  • Balances actively working on the details and finding time to step back at the bigger picture of the product  
  • Crafts a story around the WHAT, WHY and HOW for their ideas, while demonstrating via work rather than just words 
  • Embody our and  
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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$117.2K - $229.2K/yr (Outscal est.)
$173.2K/yr avg.
Redmond, Washington, United States

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