Senior Product Designer

We are a team of UX professionals spanning Product Design, UX Research, Content Design, Technical Writing and UX Engineering. Together with our PM and Engineering partners, we create product experiences that are trusted, human-centered, and easy to use—enabling our users to manage, protect, and secure their digital environments with peace of mind.    

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

We’re looking for a full-stack builder—a hybrid designer/developer who thrives at the intersection of design, engineering, and AI. In this role, you’ll help shape the future of secure, AI-powered experiences at Microsoft.

As AI redefines how we code, this role is more vital than ever. Tools can now generate code at scale, but it’s human creativity, intentionality, and empathy that give products their soul. You’ll bring that soul—bridging design and engineering to craft experiences that are not only functional, but meaningful. You’ll help us move fast, innovate boldly, and build with purpose—so we can win and thrive together.

What You’Ll Do

• Design and build front-end experiences using modern frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript).
• Translate Figma designs into reusable, accessible components and prototypes.
• Partner with engineers to ensure seamless, high-quality implementation.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate development while preserving thoughtful, human-centered design.
• Advocate for user needs and design excellence throughout the product lifecycle.

What You Bring

• Interaction and visual design skills, with experience in enterprise UX.
• Proficiency in front-end development and a passion for polished, production-ready UI.
• A growth mindset and comfort navigating ambiguity and complexity.
• A collaborative spirit and the ability to influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver world-class design solutions from initial concept through finished product   
• Provide insightful perspectives and ideas that will help shape the direction of company-wide investments in the security space.  
• Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business, user goals, and ecosystem considerations. 
• Incorporate system and framework thinking and pattern-matching into solutions to reinforce integrity of design system and product cohesion   
• Contribute to the visual systems and visual language for a product. 
• Work closely and constructively with product management, content designers, user researchers, engineers and other designers to iterate and deliver design artifacts and solutions. 
• Create wireframes, journey maps, prototypes and detailed mockups to iterate on product scenarios.   
• Seek out and incorporate the feedback of the design team to refine your designs and align to larger product patterns. 
• Clearly communicate your work to peers and leadership.  
• Work alongside leadership team members to create compelling narratives for a specific product or feature and develop product architectures and systems. 
• Contribute to evaluating and prioritizing work. 
• Ship world-class applications that delight technical roles with an emphasis on AI, craft, quality, trust, and positive user and societal impact. 
• Own multiple product areas, identify new opportunities and generate innovative through deep customer understanding, ensuring the experience vision is driven by user needs and manage launches and iterations. 
• Find your own path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively. 
• Cross-functional and cross-divisional communication and dependency management, scoping and scheduling, and seeing through implementation by collaborating with engineering through the finish line. 
• Thrive in a complex, design-driven, product development cycle. Measure success with data and research. 
• Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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
• 4+ years experience in a variety of design tools (especially Figma) and processes such as journey mapping and design sprints/workshops.
• 4+ years hands-on experience creating detailed wireframes (both low and high fidelity), polished design prototypes and other design artifacts in a fast-paced, cutting-edge technology environment.
• OR 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 equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• The ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Awareness of inclusive design and how it supports Microsoft’s mission. 
• Experience within the Security domain. 
• Experience designing for Artificial Intelligence. 
• Understanding of Large Language Model (LLM). 
• Comfortable with ambiguity, design tradeoffs and shifting priorities.
• Creative and holistic problem solver with a sharp eye for details.
• Creating and applying established design principles and interaction patterns. Experience using design components and pattern libraries. 
• Experience with Security domain. 
• Demonstrated breadth across interaction design, information architecture, usability  
• Excellent interpersonal communication and visual storytelling skills   
• Able to scope and estimate efforts accurately and prioritize workload independently  

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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 5, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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