Senior Designer

1 Hour ago • 4-5 Years • Product Design

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Job Description

As a Senior Designer at Microsoft, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of website building with Power Pages. You'll create breakthrough user experiences for millions of customers, tackling challenges in low-code concepts and generative AI. Responsibilities include leading ideation for complex products, building prototypes, collaborating with cross-functional teams (User Researchers, Content Designers, Product Managers, Engineers), and ensuring alignment with company-wide design systems. You will contribute to product design from concept to delivery, providing guidance to junior designers, and influencing decisions across teams. The role requires strong communication, problem-solving, and prototyping skills, fluency in design tools (Figma, Sketch), and a passion for creating user-centered designs.
Must have:
  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in design-related field
  • 4+ years (Master's) or 5+ years (Bachelor's) experience in product design
  • Proficiency in design and prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch)
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience creating user-centered design solutions
Good to have:
  • Experience with various platforms (desktop, cloud, mobile)
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Power Platform
  • Experience with AI-driven design
  • Leadership experience mentoring junior designers
Perks:
  • Industry-leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investment plans
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time off
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Overview

Are you interested in designing the future of website building? Join us a Senior Designer on the Design Team. Power Pages is emerging to be one of the fast-growing capabilities of Power Platform for large organizations, education institutions, and governments around the world to quickly design and launch external data-centric websites.  

 

Our team believes that product design only becomes great when we drive delight for our users at every step of their interaction with the product. That’s where you come in as a Senior Designer. In this role, you will create breakthrough experiences for Power Pages customers to find and engage with the experiences they need most. You will be solving for low code concepts, generative AI, and other problems in delightful ways, driving customer love for over 270 million Power Pages customers.  We are just starting our journey to innovate and aim for 1 billion users, thereby increasing revenue and value for Power Platform. 

 

You’ll be joining a team that is incredibly collaborative and inclusive, and strategically uses design to rethink how people build websites today and tomorrow.  

 

Cross-functional, full-stack product design teams 

You’ll be part of a product design team, studio, and organization that believes in the power of inclusion, diversity of ideas and people, work/life balance, and the sheer joy of solving hard problems. We’re nurturing a collaborative culture where everyone can flourish, learn, and innovate—even through the most challenging times. 

Our Senior Designers apply their core design skills of systems thinking, interaction design, problem solving, prototyping, creativity and storytelling to deliver great product design. You’ll leverage ideation methodologies to lead ideation solutions for complex products to improving product designs. Collaborating with a world-class cross-functional team, you will work with User Researchers, Content Designers, Product Managers and Engineers to simplify complex problems within business, technology, and experience constraints into compelling customer driven design solutions.  

Success here requires the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.  

The company and the team 

Microsoft's mission: Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.  

  • You may be collaborating with partner teams across regions, with different cultures and perspectives—something we think results in products that work better for everyone. 
  • Building a working understanding of Microsoft’s Power Platform portfolio strengthens domain knowledge, and can save you time, effort—and even earn you vital support from other teams. 
  • Success here means questioning assumptions (or at least testing them!) and pushing beyond what’s familiar. You’ll explore, validate, test, iterate, and adapt experiences to drive customer usage and satisfaction.  
  • Some products and features ship fast and get fine-tuned over time, while others involve longer timeframes and multiple teams and decision makers. Regardless of cadence, you’re a constant collaborator and your design input is critical to the product’s success at every juncture.  
  • Our promise: We’ll support you and set you up for success—and regularly remind you how much we value your unique contributions to business impact and the success of products and projects.  

Qualifications

Qualifications 

 

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). 

 

Preferred qualifications 

  • Demonstrated experience crafting product user interfaces across a range of platforms including desktop, cloud services, and mobile.  
  • A portfolio of work showing experience creating user-centered design solutions is a requirement for application. (Either upload your portfolio with your application or include a link to it on your resume or LinkedIn profile.) 
  • Your excellence in product design and strategy gets the products you’ve worked on noticed and appreciated—and your senior skillset shows in your playbook of uniquely honed tools, approaches, and solutions. 
  • You’re fluent in design and prototyping tools—Figma, Sketch, or similar—and interaction flows are a regular output of your solutions. 
  • Communication skills that extend to your relationships. You know building relationships both within and beyond your team is key for driving impact-oriented collaboration—and ultimately making a difference for customers.
  • A growth mindset—there’s always more to learn. Confidence and humility can coexist. You’re quick to own mistakes (we all make them) and willing to reconsider and explore ideas. 

Apply now 

If this sounds like you, give that product-savvy skillset of yours the global reach it deserves! Be sure to include your portfolio (or include a link) with at least three of your most relevant work samples.  

#BICJobs; #BICDesign

The ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to specialized security screenings such as the Microsoft Cloud Background Check. For this position, you’ll be required to pass the background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter. 

 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities 

 

  • Communicates with cross-disciplinary teams inside and across studio through all stages of design and development. Owns communication for what one is doing in a proactive way. 
  • Generates and can lead ideation solutions for complex products (e.g., involving many constraints, needing workarounds, requiring holistic view of interconnected systems) to improve product designs. Utilizes a variety of perspectives from business, experience, technology when ideating. Synthesizes complex ideation solutions to a concise articulation of user wants and north star vision 
  • Builds prototypes for new products or large feature areas as efficiently as possible. Presents to teams such as Design, Product and Engineering and our customers in collaboration with our stakeholders to receive feedback and understand user needs. Uses digital and physical tools to demonstrate design to stakeholders and then gauge perceptions. Leverages prototyping frameworks in accordance with company's brand guidelines and invents/improves guidelines when existing guidelines are unclear.  
  • Contributes to the use and adoption of latest design system such as components, icons, user-interface [UI] controls, navigation models, visual guidelines in your daily work. Ensures products are aligned with company-wide systems. Helps others use the system and drives consistency and alignment within the team. 
  • Takes ownership of one or more product area from concept to delivery in conjunction with peers and under the guidance of senior team members. Understands the relationship between product areas and overall product architecture to ensure all parts work well with the whole product. 
  • Provides guidance to the team of product designers. Ensures full understanding of the original design and vision, and links to established problem and goal. Influences those outside of design. 

 

What to expect from this role 

As a Senior Designer on this product design team, you’ll be: 

  • Contributing to a coherent vision and experience strategy. 
  • Collaborating within and outside the design team to guide products from concept to launch. You’ll plan, craft, and refine UX elements and in-product language–testing, validating and adapting for the next iteration. Some wins will come quickly, while others may feel like they take forever to land. 
  • Presenting ideas and concepts at all stages of the design process—research and analysis, personas, design concepts, usability testing—adapting presentations for different audiences. 
  • Driving design decision-making to bring an informed point of view, experience, and data/research. Communicates in a purposeful, concise, and conversational manner. Advises on how to embed key concepts, interaction patterns, UI elements which are aligned with customers' intent and mental models.  
  • Ensuring our AI experiences meet Microsoft’s Responsible AI criteria. 

 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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