Senior Product Designer

If you’re passionate about technology, have a knack for creative ideas, and lead with a growth mindset, we want to hear from you. 

The Microsoft AI Design & Research team is a creative community of designers and researchers on a mission to create and deliver holistic customer experiences while imagining the future of web  experiences. Between Copilot, Edge, Bing, and apps, we’re creating end-to-end web experiences from AI browser, to shopping, to search, to ads, news, sports, and gaming. Our diverse team works collaboratively to create products and ideas that empower us to move fast to build seamless and delightful experiences for billions of customers worldwide. Join us!     

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer with strong commercial product design experience to help us with the next wave of web experiences. For this role we’re looking for a leader with both strong design skills and strategic thinking; you should have superb visual and interaction design skills and be comfortable with ambiguity involved in inventing v1 experiences and working across internal organizations. You will partner with other designers and influence teams with concepts, prototypes, and evangelize new customer experiences, working across organizations to ensure design coherence to our framework and to create beautiful, inclusive, and accessible experiences that customers love.  

You’ll be at the forefront of defining the next wave of the Edge browser, shaping core browser features deeply integrated with cutting-edge AI for our commercial customers. Imagine helping to create the future of AI-powered browsing, where enterprise-grade security, productivity, and user experience are always top of mind. You’ll drive experiences which integrate the M365 knowledge graph and Copilot for Edge, unlocking smarter workflows and seamless collaboration for organizations worldwide. If you’re passionate about building delightful, secure, and intelligent experiences that empower commercial users, this is your chance to make a lasting impact and have fun doing it! 

This is a hybrid role, 4x a week onsite in Redmond WA

Responsibilities

• Contributes to design’s direction for area of accountability and executes design set by others 
• Leads design on a product with moderate to high visibility, risk, and/or complexity 
• Contributes to development of junior talent as a mentor, onboarding buddy, or coach, and sets the standard for excellent design  
• Holds bar for craft across design, PM and Engineering within a major product area  
• Contributes and partners with other major area leaders to ensure product coherence, erasing organizational boundaries from the experience 
• Embrace and lead across all of our culture models (e.g., demonstrates customer obsession) 
• Contributes to broader MAI team culture (e.g., mentorship, team morale, ERGs/clubs) 
• Understands and acts upon their role in creating an inclusive workplace at Microsoft  
• Balances actively working on the details and finding time to step back to look at the bigger picture of the product  
• Crafts a story around the WHAT, WHY and HOW for their ideas, while demonstrating via work rather than just words 

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
• 5+ years experience working in product design with cross-functional teams in an agile development 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 (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated sense of interaction design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive designs
• Strong visual design skills 
• Excellent communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams, articulate design decisions and rationale, advocate for your ideas and iterate on feedback
• Experience with stakeholder management 
• Fluency designing in Figma
• Portfolio (with password) required for this position

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 10th, 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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