Product Designer

Microsoft’s AI Experiences Design & Research team is seeking a Product Designer to shape web and native app growth experiences. This role helps translate early concepts into shippable end-to-end designs, leveraging prototyping, design systems, and AI tools while partnering across design, engineering, and marketing.

What you’ll work on

• Design web and native app experiences focused on growth, supporting user acquisition, engagement, retention, and satisfaction.
• Use advanced AI tools to support the full design workflow, including concept generation, prototypes, research planning, and synthesis.
• Partner with product owners and development team members to shepherd experiences from concept to ship for assigned products.
• Begin shaping product design needs using a combination of user insights and business needs.
• Help synthesize user insights, compare them with data, and surface larger issues that may not be visible from user desires alone.
• Prototype new products under the guidance of senior team members.
• Prepare estimated production timelines.
• Collaborate with Engineering to support successful implementation and perform QAs to help teams achieve pixel perfect or detailed designs across iterations.

Design craft and collaboration

• Contribute to visual design from concept through delivery under senior guidance, helping establish a product’s visual language.
• Create visual design documents such as mood boards, storyboards, creative briefs, UI kits, motion studies, iconography, illustrations, layouts, and redlines for an assigned product, tool, or service.
• Develop wireframes, journey maps, user jobs and scenarios, task flows, and personas to support interaction design for software-based experiences under a senior team member’s direction.
• Use a prescribed design system (for example: content templates, icons, form design, UI controls, navigation models, and design trends).
• Communicate proactively and effectively with peers, managers, and cross-functional partners.
• Drive collaboration across design, product, and engineering teams to deliver successful product outcomes.
• Maintain respectful, inclusive, and professional communication in all interactions.
• Advocate for user needs through insights, storytelling, and product narrative development.
• Influence team outcomes through research and design excellence, and support the success of others.
• Influence designer and non-designer collaborators; lead interns and/or vendors to create clarity; participate in interviews.

Experience and education

• 3+ years experience working in product or service design, plus a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or a related field.
• Or equivalent experience (for example, experience using design thinking to solve problems).
• Resume must include a link to design portfolio and/or user research case studies.
• 2+ years experience shipping games, native apps, and/or growth-led consumer products.
• Ability to work 80% onsite from the Microsoft Redmond, WA office location.

Compensation: USD 102,100 - 219,200 per year.

Location: Redmond, WA (onsite).