Microsoft

Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

Microsoft$142K — $274K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in a relevant design field plus significant product or service design experience.
  • Hands-on experience with design systems, including components and documentation.
  • Experience collaborating with engineering teams to ensure design integration and quality.
  • Strong understanding and practical experience with AI tools in design processes.
  • Proven capabilities in developing internal tools or products aimed at enhancing designer/developer experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Design and document essential components and create core patterns for the design system.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to facilitate design system adoption.
  • Enhance Vibe Kit by contributing skills, standards, and context, driving cross-functional adoption.
  • Refine workflows in Vibe Studio, focusing on transforming design concepts into workable prototypes.
  • Work alongside AI UX engineers to ensure designs are machine-readable and accessible for AI applications.
  • Maintain high design quality through audits and critiques, bridging the gap between designs and final products.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
  • Access to cutting-edge AI tools and innovative design environments.
  • Exposure to a collaborative and interdisciplinary work culture.
  • Involvement in impactful projects that scale across the organization.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Microsoft Advertising Advertiser UXD team is hiring a Principle Product Designer to join the team building the foundation the rest of the org designs and ships on. The role spans two tightly connected areas: the MAI Monetization Design System (components, tokens, patterns, and standards) and our AI-Native Tooling suite - Vibe Kit, a GitHub-based repository of skills, context, and standards for building with AI, and Vibe Studio, our AI-powered design and prototyping environment.

We're turning our design org into a product factory: designers who ship production-quality work with AI, grounded in a system that guarantees quality, context, and access. Making our team's work multiply - everything we ship gets used by every designer and engineer in the org.

Responsibilities
  • Design, document, and evolve core components and patterns of the design system.
  • Drive adoption and migration work with engineering partners.
  • Contribute skills, standards, context files and Evals to Vibe Kit; Expand its adoption beyond design into PM and engineering.
  • Shape Vibe Studio workflows: prototype, test, and refine how designers go from intent to working product.
  • Partner with AI UX engineering efforts to make the system machine-readable, not just human-readable.
  • Set and uphold the quality bar: audit usage, critique output, and close the gap between spec and shipped.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 8+ 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:
  • Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 12+ 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).
  • Hands-on design systems experience: components, tokens, and documentation.
  • Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineering teams.
  • Solid AI acumen and lived experience in creating AI tooling and tools for designing with AI.
  • Experience with Fluent or other large enterprise design systems.
  • Experience with React or AI-assisted coding tools.
  • Background in advertising, B2B, or data-dense tooling.
  • Experience building internal tools or developer/designer experience products.
  • Demonstrated interest in AI as a design material, not just a feature.
  • Portfolio demonstrating systems-level design work (components, patterns, or tooling).
  • Solid written communication: standards and documentation are first-class deliverables on this team.
  • Ability to prototype in code or with AI-assisted tools.


#MicrosoftAI

Product Design IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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