Senior Product Designer

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

The Windows Experiences team is a creative community of designers and researchers on a mission to create and deliver holistic customer experiences while imagining the future of Windows experiences. We are working to make Windows come alive with connected services from across Microsoft – including Bing, MSN, and Microsoft 365. Our diverse team works collaboratively to create products and ideas that allow 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 Senior Product Designer with a mastery of visual design, experience design, and storytelling. We’re looking for a designer who’s driven by empathy for customers, and the desire to see a project through 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 and building mindset – when in doubt we build something and test it. Embracing quick prototyping and testing is a must.

You can learn more about the team at http://wxcteam.microsoft.com

Responsibilities

• Contributes to design’s direction for area of accountability and maintains cohesion with the existing design system
• Leads design on a product with moderate to high visibility, risk, and/or complexity
• Develops others from the team as a manager, mentor, onboarding buddy, coach, and sets the standard for excellent design
• Maintains a bar for craft across Design, Program Management 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
• Demonstrates customer obsession and empathy
• Contributes to broader Windows team culture (e.g., mentorship, onboarding buddy, team morale, employee resource groups/clubs)
• Understands and acts upon their role in creating a Diversity and Inclusion workplace at Microsoft
• Balances actively working on the details and finding time to step back 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
• Embody our culture and values 
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).
  

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years experience working in product or service design
• Demonstrated sense of interaction design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design
• Product based and job relevant visual design skills
• Effective communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas
• Experience designing in Figma
• Experience with interaction prototypes
  
  

Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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 is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.