Senior Product Designer

Microsoft AI Monetization is a customer-first organization dedicated to building the next generation of AI-powered products that serve our customers' business goals. Our Design, Research & Content team is a creative community on a mission to create and deliver holistic experiences for Advertisers, Publishers, Sellers and Consumers. By leveraging our deep understanding of the user and our business acumen, we are driving the future of advertising and monetization in the era of AI. Our diverse team works collaboratively to develop products and ideas which impact billions of customers worldwide.  

We’re a friendly, diverse and a fast-moving creative team, supporting one another to do the best work of our lives. We are always looking to break new ground with an unshakeable dedication to the user. We are proud of what we build, and how we build it. We prioritize quality, meaningful innovation and polish, and always root our decisions in research and evidence. We ship regularly, so your work will have real and immediate impact.  

This role will be part of our Monetization Inventory Design team, which is focused on supporting the current and future monetization experiences for Microsoft Copilot, Bing (including Copilot Search), MSN, gaming, and other key consumer surfaces. You will work on everything from traditional advertising experiences, to future state explorations that leverage AI technology to redefine traditional ways of interacting with computers and the underlying business models for monetization. Your work will be at the heart of change within the advertising industry.

Our core values guide our work:

• Quality. We only deliver category-defining products that delight withtheir ease of use, guaranteed reliability, and beautiful, coherent design.     

• Simplicity. We don’t overcomplicate. Less is more, always.     

• Safety & Security. The highest standards of security, safety and responsibility are non-negotiable across all our business areas.     

• Evaluation. We pay close attention to signals and aren’t afraid to change course when data and our experience tells us to. We are also careful with our metrics, focusing on delivering long-term sustainable value (rather than short-term KPIs).   

• Kindness. Kindness is at the heart of our org and how we conduct ourselves. We care for, and support and respect one another, beginning again and learning every day.  

As a consumer-focused Sr. Product Designer you will bring the strong technical skills, leadership and passion that will help us to build the next wave of monetization-centered capabilities for our consumers. You can facilitate human-centered design and deliver the work necessary for innovative zero-to-one products. You have an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness, in addition to being an effective communicator. You are flexible and adaptable, with the ability to move quickly to new methodologies, processes, technologies, and products. The right candidate takes the initiative and enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment. You will set vision and direction for the product you support, deliver high quality designs at all stages of the design process, and ensure that the experiences you create meaningfully impact our customers.

Beyond the specifics of this role and this team, you will be, first and foremost, part of Microsoft’s mission 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. 

Are ready to help us create the future?

By applying to this U.S.  position, you are required to be local to the Redmond WA or Bay Area and in office 4 days a week.

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
  • 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)
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate experience designing world class consumer products from vision through launch.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of setting design vision for innovative products that require bold thinking and risk taking.

• Experience prompting LLMs, working with generative AI, and understanding how to meaningfully integrate AI into products to help customers accomplish their goals.

• Demonstrate high craft in design work; must value craft and translate vision into well-polished design prototypes.  

• Ability to break large bodies of work into a phased execution plan, and lead a cross-functional team from idea to polished implementation.  

• Experience thatdemonstrates proven ability to advocate for design thinking, effectively influence design outcomes, discover problems and address them in a fast-paced and ambiguous environments.  

• Experience identifying research needs, and then diving into the results, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative signals for design direction and refinement.

• Ability to own your work in a start-up like environment. This includes managing multiple priorities and adapting to ever-changing requirements and deadlines.  

• Proven ability to collaborate and contribute to a positive, inclusive work environment, fostering knowledge sharing and growth within the team.  

• Optional, but meaningful: Prototype-level engineering experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript or other development languages such as Python. 

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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Ship world-class AI-powered experiences that delight consumers with an emphasis on craft, quality, trust, and positive user and societal impact.

• Stay aware of new technological innovations within AI and conceptualize how these technologies may be utilized in our design practices and within your product.

• Own the user experience for a product and be responsible for understanding user needs and behaviors to ensure we have defined the right product requirements.

• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary product team members (product managers, engineers, researchers, content writers, other designers, etc.) to ensure quality designs are implemented on time and as planned.

• Manage your own scope of work and coordinate with multiple design teams and stakeholders to keep alignment and coherence of the experience.

• Find your own path to get things done despite roadblocks; ensure your work gets into the hands of users quickly and plan for continued iteration.

• Set the bar for excellence and quality and hold the team accountable to that standard.

• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.   

• Partner with product managers to define goals and performance indicators - both business and customer success metrics. Set up and oversee experiments and evaluate effectiveness with data and research.