Microsoft

Product Design Director, Advertiser Experiences

Microsoft • $165K — $296K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Master's or Bachelor’s Degree in relevant design field plus substantial experience in product design.
  • 7+ years of experience in product or service design (or equivalent experience).
  • 5+ years of people management experience is required.
  • Portfolio showcasing strong design capabilities and impact on shipped products preferred.
  • Experience in leading design strategy and influencing product direction across multiple teams.
  • Strong visual and interaction design skills, especially in complex systems.
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of motivating teams and presenting ideas effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the Advertiser design team to enhance performance and output.
  • Define and communicate the vision for advertiser products through design principles and roadmaps.
  • Create streamlined advertiser workflows emphasizing simplicity and trustworthiness.
  • Innovate an AI-native design model that leverages advanced technologies to improve design processes.
  • Foster collaboration across diverse teams including product management and engineering.
  • Promote a culture of prototyping to test and validate ideas efficiently.
  • Utilize data and customer feedback to drive design decisions and project prioritization.
  • Ensure coherence across all advertiser surfaces for a smoother customer journey.
  • Champion responsible AI practices ensuring user intent is respected and automated processes are transparent.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Continuous learning and development opportunities
  • Flexible working hours and remote work options
  • Employee discounts and perks
  • Wellness programs and resources
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and grow Advertiser design team, creating clarity, generating energy, and delivering high-quality results across complex product areas.


  • Define the experience vision for advertiser products, translating customer needs, business goals, and product strategy into clear design principles, roadmaps, narratives, and measurable outcomes.


  • Design the future of advertiser workflows for an agentic era: goal expression, guided setup, recommendations, automation, supervision, approvals, transparency, confidence, recovery, and ongoing optimization.


  • Make complex advertising tasks feel simple and trustworthy across customer segments, including enterprise advertisers, agencies, small and medium businesses, brand marketers, and performance marketers.


  • Pioneer an AI-native design operating model that uses AI-assisted exploration, natural-language-to-code prototyping, design agents, synthesis tools, and evaluation loops to accelerate learning and improve quality.


  • Drive cross-functional collaboration with product management, engineering, research, data science, business planning, marketing, sales, and support from early strategy through implementation and launch.


  • Build a prototype-first design culture where interactive artifacts are used to evaluate ideas, align stakeholders, test assumptions, and improve product decisions before teams commit to build.


  • Use research, customer feedback, product data, experimentation, and business signal to identify opportunities, prioritize work, and adjust direction when evidence shows a better path.


  • Create experience coherence across advertiser surfaces, connecting campaign creation, account health, optimization, reporting, recommendations, planning, and support into a more unified customer journey.


  • Champion responsible AI patterns that make automation legible, controllable, inspectable, reversible, and respectful of customer intent.


  • Partner with design systems and engineering leaders to ensure advertiser experiences use reusable patterns, accessible components, clear content models, and scalable product architecture.


  • Raise the bar for craft through critique, storytelling, design reviews, inclusive design practices, accessibility standards, and a high-quality portfolio of shipped work.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 7+ 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 9+ 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).


  • 5+ years people management experience.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • A portfolio that demonstrates strong product thinking, interaction design, visual design, customer empathy, systems thinking, and impact through shipped products.


  • Experience setting experience vision, leading design strategy, and influencing product direction across multiple teams or product areas.


  • Strong visual and interaction design craft, with the ability to make complex systems feel clear, elegant, and coherent.


  • Demonstrated ability to use research, experimentation, analytics, customer signal, and business context to guide design decisions.


  • Experience collaborating deeply with product management, engineering, research, and data partners from early product strategy through implementation.


  • Experience designing advertising, marketing, commerce, analytics, workflow, enterprise, or marketplace products.


  • Experience with AI-powered, agentic, recommendation, automation, or decision-support experiences.


  • Fluency in patterns for delegation, supervision, transparency, approvals, error recovery, rollback, auditability, and human-in-the-loop control.


  • Experience using AI-assisted design, natural-language-to-code workflows, rapid prototyping, or code-forward exploration as part of product development.


  • Experience designing for trust, safety, security, privacy, accessibility, and inclusive design in complex product ecosystems.


  • Excellent communication, storytelling, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for ideas with clarity and humility.


  • Experience with Figma and modern design collaboration tools; familiarity with prototyping, front-end technologies, or design-system implementation is a plus.


  • Experience building team culture, operating models, critique practices, and design-quality mechanisms that help people do their best work.


Product Design M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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

Product Design M7 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $212,800 - $338,400 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 $236,000 - $370,800 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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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
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