Senior Product Designer

The Copilot for Sales team is reimagining the way that sellers work—enabling them to focus on building strong relationships with customers, empowering them to take data-driven actions, and enhancing their sales effectiveness. We’re utilizing modern design principles, innovative AI technology, and integration with Microsoft 365 productivity apps—all with a commitment to customer privacy, accessibility, and AI ethics. 

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer with enterprise product design experience to help create the next generation of AI-powered experiences for sellers. For this role, we’re seeking a candidate with strong design skills and strategic thinking ability. You should have effective visual and interaction design skills and be comfortable navigating ambiguity in creating v1 experiences. 

You will collaborate with stakeholders to develop concepts and prototypes, and advocate for new customer experiences. You will also contribute to evolving our design system, working with cross-functional teams to bring design coherence to our framework and create beautiful, inclusive, and accessible experiences that customers love. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design strategy, interaction design, and creative direction for new product experiences. 

• Collaborate across disciplines from the early stages of product development through to implementation. 

• Understand the behaviors, motivations, and needs of our users to develop impactful experiences. 

• Create innovative solutions to complex user experience challenges, leveraging your ability to map end-to-end experiences. 

• Identify opportunities for improvement in our processes, products, and culture, and influence design direction and research methodologies. 

• Enhance user experience by creating interaction models and acting as a bridge between users and product teams. 

• Effectively communicate design ideas and product stories to a variety of audiences to gain buy-in from key stakeholders. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• 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 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

    o OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements: 

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements. 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:

• 5+ years enterprise software design experience.
• 2+ years' experience shipping AI or ML (machine learning) experiences and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.   
• Proficient visual design skills with relevant portfolio examples.
• Ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas.  
• Experience building, refining, or improving design systems at scale.   
• Experience with React, JS, HTML, CSS.

Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 3, 2024

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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