Product Designer

Join Microsoft’s Developer Division as a Product Designer — where your design work will shape the future of engineering productivity for thousands of developers across Microsoft and beyond.

If you’re passionate about simplifying complex workflows, elevating developer experiences, and collaborating across disciplines to build intuitive tools, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

As part of the team, you’ll collaborate with other designers, content strategists, researchers, product managers, and engineers to envision, improve, and expand some of the fastest growing products at Microsoft.

In this role you will work on complex problems for customers who care deeply about both productivity and ease-of-use. We’re looking for a designer who’s driven by empathy for customers, and the need to know how to serve them better. You’ll work closely with an interdisciplinary team to deliver the next generation of experiences to empower developers. Our ideal candidate has experience in the full life cycle of digital design, from envisioning to concepting to prototyping to execution.

Beyond the work, we’re a collaborative group that values the characteristics and skills each person brings to the team. We do our best to stay connected while working and encourage each other to rest and recharge when it’s needed most.

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

• Collaborate with program managers, engineers, and fellow designers to define user needs and translate them into elegant, scalable solutions.
• Design and prototype user experiences for web and mobile applications, focusing on developer workflows and productivity.
• Conduct user research and usability testing to validate design decisions and iterate based on feedback and data.
• Apply design thinking to solve complex problems with clarity and empathy.
• Balance scope and constraints to deliver high-impact designs on time.
• Uphold design system standards and brand guidelines
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field
• OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
• Experience solving for complex scenarios and utilizing analytical skills with a user-centered mindset.
  

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with developer tools, CI/CD workflows, or enterprise software.
• Portfolio demonstrating thoughtful design decisions and impact in technical or enterprise contexts.
• Ability to communicate design concepts clearly to cross-functional stakeholders.
  
  

Product Design IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 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 September 2nd, 2025.

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.