Microsoft

Product Designer II

Microsoft$102K — $202K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field and 3+ years in product or service design.
  • Proven ability to use design thinking for problem-solving.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing product, interaction, and visual design.
  • 4+ years in product design for consumer or productivity software preferred.
  • Experience with cross-device ecosystems, and proficiency in tools like Figma.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define vision for experiences.
  • Drive projects from concept to execution, owning design direction.
  • Design comprehensive user experiences that integrate various devices and applications.
  • Rapidly prototype using modern tools to explore and validate concepts.
  • Contribute to design systems that ensure consistency across products.
  • Leverage customer insights and research to inform design decisions.

Benefits

  • Access to Microsoft’s wide range of employee benefits.
  • Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.
  • Supportive work culture emphasizing collaboration and innovation.
Full Job Description
Overview

Product Designer II- Cross Device Experiences

The Devices + Experiences Design team is looking for a Product Designer II to help shape the future of Cross Device Experiences across Microsoft's ecosystem. You'll design experiences that help people stay in the flow as they move across devices, applications, services, and emerging AI-powered experiences.

This is a maker role. Beyond creating exceptional UI/UX, you'll be expected to rapidly prototype concepts, build interactive experiences, and use modern AI-first design and development tools to explore ideas, validate assumptions, and communicate product direction.

You will partner closely with design, product management, engineering, and research teams to define and deliver the next generation of experiences spanning devices, platforms, services, and AI-powered workflows.

Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, and researchers to define the vision for cross-device experiences across Microsoft's ecosystem.
  • Drive projects from concept through execution, taking ownership of design direction, identifying opportunities, shaping product strategy, and proactively moving work forward across partner teams.
  • Design end-to-end experiences that span devices, applications, services, and AI-powered workflows.
  • Rapidly prototype experiences using design tools, code, and AI-assisted prototyping workflows to explore concepts, validate ideas, and gather feedback.
  • Contribute to design systems, patterns, and interaction frameworks that create consistency across a broad portfolio of cross-device experiences.
  • Use customer insights, usability research, product telemetry, and competitive analysis to inform design decisions.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 3+ 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).

Other Requirements:
  • Submission must include a link to a digitial portfolio demonstrating exceptional product design, interaction design, visual design, and shipped customer experiences.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • 4+ years of experience in product design for consumer or productivity software.
  • Experience designing mobile, desktop, web, or multi-device ecosystems.
  • Proficiency with Figma and modern prototyping tools.
  • Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
  • Experience designing multi-device, companion, continuity, ecosystem, or connected experiences.
  • Ability to build functional prototypes using code, low-code tools, or modern AI-powered development workflows.
  • Experience working in fast-paced, highly collaborative product teams.
  • Passion for emerging AI experiences, agents, and intelligent workflows.
  • Ability to operate with a high degree of ownership, proactively driving work forward through ambiguity.


#W+DJOBS

Product Design IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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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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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