Senior Product Designer

Microsoft’s mission is to ‘empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more’. At studio+91 at the India Development Center (MSIDC), we work together across a multitude of disciplines: design, research and design engineering, to empower people all over the planet. Our diverse teams are constantly iterating, solving problems and collaborating with product managers, engineers to craft meaningful and relevant product experiences. Studio+91 is ‘microcosm of Microsoft’ with teams working across Microsoft 365, Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Teams, Edge, Bing, SharePoint, Notes and Tasks, Azure, etc. forming and contributing diverse perspectives to the product experiences.

 Microsoft 365 mobile app solves for user’s content-based productivity needs allowing them to get to, capture and create content quickly and delightfully on mobile. In addition to Word, Excel and PowerPoint, the focus is very much on mobile content such as Images, PDFs, Voice recordings, and Video, and the workflows around them such as Capture and Create. Microsoft 365 mobile will play a pivotal role in surfacing to the end-user Microsoft’s advances in AI over the last year such as Copilot and AI powered chat to empower mobile content productivity workflows in a delightful way.

 We are seeking an exceptional Senior Product Designer with a proven track record for creating usable, seamless, elegant and impactful design solutions, deeply rooted in customer needs. The person in this role will contribute hands-on. This is an exceptional opportunity to reach hundreds of millions of people with your innovative and creative work.

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.

Please provide a link to an online portfolio of your work, along with a password if required.

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).
• Deep user empathy and a track record of solving complex problems with simple, elegant design solutions grounded in real user needs.
  
• Comfort navigating ambiguity, with the ability to simplify complexity and bring clarity through design.
  
• Proven collaboration skills and the ability to build strong partnerships with product managers and engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes.
  
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills (both visual and verbal) to influence and inspire across disciplines.
  
• Demonstrated expertise in tools like Figma, Protopie, After-Effects, Illustrator, and PowerPoint, as well as experience with AI powered productivity tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity etc.
  

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. 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:

• Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ 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 8+ 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).
• 4+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.

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. 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.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams : design, product management, and engineering and partners in different teams across geographies to define the product vision and ensure high-quality execution from concept to ship.
• Build and communicate strategic design concepts through documentation, sketches, prototypes, presentations and vibe coding to gather feedback and align stakeholders.
• Deliver polished, user-centered designs and detailed specifications that translate seamlessly into consumer and enterprise-grade experiences.
• Uphold and advocate for design excellence, craftsmanship, and usability within the product team and across the organization
• Partner with global design teams and global leadership to ensure coherence and quality across features and workflows and influence global thinking.
• Enable key design understanding to drive AI models to understand and deliver on user focused outcomes and employ the right evaluation strategies to deliver world class quality of outcomes consistently.
• Explore and implement emerging interaction patterns, especially those driven by advancements in AI ( Artificial Intelligence), to craft forward-looking user experiences.