Senior Product Designer
Microsoft
What You’ll Do
- Shape Token‑Driven System Foundations: Contribute to the design token strategy across taxonomy, naming, governance, and lifecycle management—ensuring Fluent’s foundations are coherent, scalable, and resilient across platforms, themes, and future system evolution.
- Systematize Visual Language with Intent: Help define and refine Fluent’s design language through art direction and systemization of color, typography, spacing, motion, and state—balancing expressive craft with repeatable, tokenized structure.
- Elevate Craft at the System Level: Apply strong visual design judgment to evolve core system primitives, raising overall UI quality, consistency, and polish across Microsoft experiences.
- Translate Design Intent into Scalable Systems: Bridge visual design and implementation by translating design intent into tokenized abstractions that scale across platforms, modes, and themes without losing nuance or clarity.
- Partner Deeply with Engineering: Work closely with engineers to ensure tokens and foundations are implementable, versioned, and integrated into design‑to‑code workflows—supporting durability, performance, and adoption at scale.
- Define Clear Guidance for Adoption and Contribution: Create practical guidance for token usage, contribution models, and system adoption—helping teams use Fluent correctly, confidently, and consistently.
- Lead Through Influence and Alignment: Align designers, engineers, PMs, and accessibility partners around shared system decisions, using influence, clarity, and collaboration to drive coherence across the ecosystem.
Why This Role Matters
Responsibilities
Contribute to the design token strategy, including taxonomy, naming, governance, and lifecycle management.
Contribute to art direction & systematizing design language elements
Apply strong visual design craft to evolve system foundations and raise overall UI quality.
Translate visual design intent (color, type, spacing, states) into tokenized systems that scale across platforms and themes.
Partner deeply with engineers to ensure tokens are implementable, versioned, and integrated into design‑to‑code workflows.
Define clear guidance for token usage, contribution, and adoption across teams.
Lead through influence — aligning designers, engineers, PMs, and accessibility partners on shared system decisions.
Qualifications
Required/minimum 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.
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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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