Product Designer

Overview

The AI Experiences 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 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're building a culture based on learning and creating meaningful experiences for our customers. We are seeking a multi-skilled product-led growth designer 2 with a mastery of visual design, experience design, web and native app design, branding, and storytelling. We're looking for a designer who's driven by empathy for customers, and the desire to carry ideas from rough ideas to launch. The right candidate works independently and is a passionate collaborator with other design teams, engineering teams, and marketing groups.

Finally, this designer defaults to a making/building mindset - when in doubt we build something and test it. Embracing quick prototyping and testing is a must.

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

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Product-led Growth Design

• Creates web and native app experiences for growth that drive user acquisition, engagement, retention, and satisfaction.

• Use advanced AI tools to assist with the end-to-end design process, including concept generation, prototypes, research planning, and synthesis.

• Collaborates with product owners and development team members to shepherd end-to-end experiences from concept to ship for products.

• Begins to define the needs of product designs based on multiple factors such as user insights and business needs.

• Supports the team in developing a synthesis of user insights and compares with data to identify larger issues that may not be apparent for user desires.

• Prototypes for new products under the guidance of senior team members.

• Prepares estimated production timelines.

• Collaborates with Engineering to aid in successful design implementation and perform QAs to help them ensure "pixel perfect" or detailed designs for each iteration.

• Contributes to visual designs from concept to delivery under the guidance of senior team members. Facilitates the creative visual design process by producing the visual language for a product.

• Creates visual design documents including mood boards, storyboards, creative briefs, UI kits, motion studies, iconography, illustrations, layouts, and redlines for an assigned product, tool, or service.

• Creates wireframes, journey maps, user jobs and scenarios, task flows, and personas in support of interaction designs for software-based experiences under the direction of a senior team member.

• Uses a prescribed design system (e.g., content templates, icons, form design, UI controls, navigation models, design trends).

Communication and Collaboration

• Communicates proactively and effectively with peers, managers, and cross-functional partners.

• Drives collaboration across design, product, and engineering teams to deliver successful product outcomes.

• Demonstrates respectful, inclusive, and professional communication in all interactions.

• Advocates for user needs through insights, storytelling, and product narrative development.

• Influences team outcomes, contributes to research and design excellence, and supports the success of others.

Leadership

• Influences designer and non-designer collaborators. Leads interns and/or vendors to create clarity for others. Participates in interviews.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years experience working in product or service design AND Bachelors Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field.

• OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).

• Resume must include a link to design portfolio and/or user research case studies.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years experience shipping games, native apps and/or growth-led consumer products

Location onsite

• Works 80% onsite from Microsoft Redmond, WA office location.

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.