Product Designer 2
Microsoft
Product Designer 2
Multiple Locations, United States
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Overview
We are a team of product designers, UX researchers, and content designers. Together with our PM and Engineering partners, we design product experiences that are trusted, human-centered, and easy to use, enabling our users to manage, protect and secure their digital environments with peace of mind.
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
Our team is composed of talented, diverse individuals with unique backgrounds and passions. We foster an environment where creativity and innovation flourish, collaboration is highly valued, and complex problems are solved through teamwork with a wide range of peers and partners.
Microsoft Security’s product portfolio is broad, spanning experiences from security professionals to everyday consumers. In this role, you’ll help lead the UX vision for the Microsoft Intune admin center, the most secure management solution for the modern workplace. Your work will deliver seamless, intuitive experiences that keep devices and apps secure and always up to date. You’ll also play a key role in shaping AI Agentic experiences, one of the most anticipated capabilities of Security Copilot.
We’re looking for a passionate Product Designer II to help bring AI and security together to unlock new levels of productivity. This is your opportunity to help define the future of AI and management.
As a designer on our team, you’ll collaborate closely with fellow designers, product managers, and engineers to craft forward-thinking solutions grounded in user needs and business goals. You’ll apply user-centered design principles, refine scenarios, contextualize experiences, and create thoughtful interactions. A sharp eye for detail and a deep passion for design excellence are essential.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years experience in a variety of design tools (especially Figma) and processes such as journey mapping and design sprints/workshops.
- 3+ years hands-on experience creating detailed wireframes (both low and high fidelity), polished design prototypes and other design artifacts.
- 1+ year of experience in one (1) of the following industries/specialties: Security, Enterprise, AI, Front-End Development.
Other Requirements:
The 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.
- A portfolio that demonstrates skills in interaction, visual, and systems design must be submitted with your application.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, 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, or related field AND 3 + years experience working in product or service design
- Comfortable with ambiguity, design tradeoffs and shifting priorities, and the ability to thrive in evolving environments.
- Creative and holistic problem solver with a sharp eye for details.
- Creating and applying established design principles and interaction patterns.
- Experience using design components and pattern libraries.
- Demonstrated breadth across interaction design, information architecture, usability.
- Effective interpersonal communication, visual storytelling skills with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and rationale to diverse audiences.
- Curious, proactive mindset with a passion for learning and exploring new ideas.
- Cross-disciplinary background experience or familiarity with development, systems thinking, or related fields.
- Experience with Security domain.
- Development experience or technical fluency: comfortable collaborating with engineering teams and understanding technical constraints and opportunities.
- Front-end familiarity: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (React experience is a plus)
- Cross-disciplinary background- experience or familiarity in development and product management.
- Familiar with agile or lean methodologies.
- Experience designing user experiences for cloud software and services and/or IT professionals.
- Experience, understanding, and knowledge of Artificial Intelligence.
- Experience with OpenAI/ChatGPT.
- Understanding of Large Language Model (LLM).
Product Design IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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 July 12, 2025.
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Responsibilities
- Deliver world-class design solutions from the initial concept through finished product
- Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business, user goals, and ecosystem considerations.
- Incorporate system and framework thinking and pattern-matching into solutions to reinforce integrity of design system and product cohesion
- Contribute to the visual systems and visual language for a product.
- Work closely and constructively with product management, content designers, user researchers, engineers and other designers to iterate and deliver design artifacts and solutions.
- Create wireframes, journey maps, prototypes and detailed mockups to iterate on product scenarios.
- Clearly communicate your work to peers and leadership.
- Own multiple product areas, identify new opportunities and generate innovative through deep customer understanding, ensuring the experience vision is driven by user needs and manage launches and iterations.
- Cross-functional and cross-divisional communication and dependency management and seeing through implementation by collaborating with engineering through the finish line.
- Thrive in a complex, design-driven, product development cycle. Measure success with data and research.
- Embody our culture and values