Microsoft

Senior Product Designer

Microsoft$119K — $234K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in a relevant design field with 4-5+ years of experience in product or service design or equivalent experience.
  • Proficiency in design tools like Figma, Lovable, VS Code, and Sketch.
  • Experience in developing AI features and applying AI within design workflows.
  • Design Thinking Certification from a recognized institution.
  • Experience conducting 1:1 research interviews and facilitating Design Thinking workshops.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional design efforts by collaborating with various stakeholders and ensuring alignment across teams.
  • Own the design and delivery of user experiences through creating interaction models, wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs.
  • Drive design strategy and execution through ideation, guiding product planning, and identifying user needs.
  • Provide mentorship and support to fellow designers while ensuring consistency and successful delivery of product experiences.
  • Incorporate design systems and best practices in the development of products.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship.
  • Access to a centralized design team to foster collaboration.
  • Engagement in innovative projects at the intersection of design and AI.
  • Chance to influence the product development lifecycle with a hands-on role.
Full Job Description
Overview

We9re seeking a Product Designer who works where human-centered design meets enterprise AI adoption. UX designers on our team are focused on Customer Zero initiatives or enabling internal adoption and acceleration of impact of enterprise tools and software, often including AI products and services. Embedded within a centralized design team, you9ll take lead on specific problems within larger programs, owning a project end to end - starting with an understanding of the end user and the existing technical environment, and going through delivery embedded in engineering teams. Your blend of human-centered design method and systems thinking and design will help accelerate adoption and impact of enterprise tools across the business. This is a hands-on role for a designer who crosses from inception of new product ideas through delivery and refinement of those ideas at scale, and who brings real curiosity and a clear growth mindset to the work.

Responsibilities
022 Leads cross-functional product design efforts by collaborating with Design, Engineering, PM, Research, and Security stakeholders, driving alignment across teams, influencing decision-making, and communicating compelling product narratives to leaders and partners.
022 Owns the design and delivery of complex user experiences by creating interaction models, wireframes, journey maps, prototypes, and visual designs that balance user needs, business goals, technical constraints, accessibility, security, and trust considerations.
022 Drives design strategy, innovation, and execution by leading ideation, incorporating design systems and best practices, guiding product planning and prioritization, identifying unmet user needs, and translating insights into scalable product solutions.
022 Provides design leadership and mentorship by guiding designers, promoting design consistency and brand standards, influencing non-design stakeholders, supporting team development, and ensuring successful delivery of product experiences from concept through launch.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Master9s 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 Bachelor9s 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 equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)

Additional Preferred Qualifications:
022 Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Figma, Lovable, VS Code and/or Sketch.
022 Experience supporting the development of AI features.
022 Experience applying AI within design workflows.
022 Design Thinking Certification from an accredited institution. (e.g.: IDEO, IBM, Stanford, Luna, Forrester, and a variety of university programs).
022 2+ years conducting 1:1 research interviews.
022 3+ years designing, planning, and facilitating live and virtual Design Thinking workshops.
022 2+ years using AI-integrated design tools and workflows

Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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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