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Product Designer II

Overview

Are you excited about shaping collaboration experiences in an intelligence powered world? Are you passionate about designing experiences that help people create, discover, and act on information more easily, with the support of AI, while remaining simple, trustworthy, and human centered? Are you obsessed with creating products that are intuitive, useful, delightful, and beautifully crafted? So are we.

At SharePoint, you will be part of a team fundamentally changing how people interact with the most important content in their work lives. SharePoint is a core part of Microsoft 365, serving over 300 million users and supporting a multi billion dollar business. You will help shape how people engage with trusted content across Microsoft 365, extending SharePoint experiences across everyday apps, devices, and surfaces. This includes creating new AI powered experiences as well as integrating intelligence assisted capabilities that help users stay informed and act with confidence.

As a SharePoint Product Designer, you will collaborate closely with design, product management, research, and engineering to define and deliver core AI user experiences in SharePoint. SharePoint is Microsofts foundational platform for content, communication, and employee engagement, enabling organizations to share knowledge, stay aligned, and scale company wide communications. You will conceptualize and design thoughtful solutions that balance simplicity with the complexity of large scale information systems.

Your work will span areas such as navigation, information architecture, content hierarchy, authoring experiences, and interaction models. You will also explore how AI assisted capabilities can reduce cognitive load, surface relevant information, and help users take meaningful action within their daily workflow.

Microsofts 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

  • Design end-to-end user experiences across the product lifecycle, from early concepts to shipped features.
  • Contribute to interaction oriented workflows, including content creation, publishing, discovery, and management experiences.
  • Explore and design AI assisted and intelligence powered interactions such as recommendations, suggestions, and automation, while maintaining clarity, trust, and user control.
  • Utilize AI prototyping tools to bring concepts to life and gather rapid feedback.
  • Partner closely with engineering, research, and product teams to iterate, validate, and refine solutions, including supporting evaluation of AI assisted experiences.
  • Translate complex or ambiguous problem spaces into intuitive, usable experiences through strong information design and interaction models.
  • Create design artifacts that clearly communicate intent, including flows, wireframes, prototypes, and design narratives.
  • Apply strong visual design principles, including layout, hierarchy, typography, color, motion, and imagery.

How Youll Work

You will work within a collaborative, highly creative, and agile environment, partnering across disciplines to deliver shared outcomes. You are comfortable articulating design decisions, incorporating feedback, and aligning teams around a clear user experience vision. You value learning, iteration, and inclusive collaboration, and are curious about how emerging technologies, including AI, can be applied thoughtfully in real products.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelors 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 (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
  • 3+ years of professional experience in product or service design, including experience designing online or cloud based services.
  • A solid, user centered approach to design informed by qualitative and quantitative research.
  • Solid interaction design skills, with the ability to create and prototype experiences that communicate user intent.
  • Solid collaboration and communication skills, with experience working closely with design, product, and engineering partners.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Masters 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 Bachelors 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).
  • 2+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.
  • Experience designing within complex or evolving problem spaces where requirements may be emerging or ambiguous.
  • Familiarity with modern product development processes, including agile and crossfunctional workflows.
  • Proficiency with modern design tools such as Figma; experience with additional design or prototyping tools is a plus.
  • Working knowledge of HTML; familiarity with CSS is a plus.
  • Passion for design and curiosity about how AI and emerging technologies can enhance user experiences in practical, human centered ways.

Compensation

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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.