Senior Product Designer

On Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. We are leading with innovation, as highlighted by bringing the Game Pass subscription to PC, bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming, and our recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard King creating exciting new possibilities for players. 

The Xbox Experiences and Platforms team is home to the design and engineering work that makes this vision possible, building the developer tools and services that enable game creators to craft incredible experiences, the commerce systems that connect publishers with their audience and help gamers engage with their next favorite games, the platforms on which those games play at their highest potential, and the experiences that turn every screen into an Xbox.

The Xbox Design team is looking for a Senior Product Designer to bring their unique blend of design systems thinking, user experience craftsmanship, and creative problem-solving to our Xbox Design System team. This team defines and evolves the components, patterns, and principles that empower product designers to build exceptional gaming experiences across the Xbox ecosystem. The work emphasizes coherence, flexibility, and expressive power—ensuring our design language and interaction models scale seamlessly across platforms and device contexts. This role will help unify our visual and interaction foundations while supporting the diverse needs of gaming experiences. Games are enjoyed by everyone, and this team delivers the shared design DNA that helps those experiences feel consistently crafted, contemporary, and distinctly Xbox. 

You understand the power of storytelling through design, the ability of an interface to inspire and inform. You're a starter and a finisher — someone who can translate business strategy into product concepts, identify experience gaps, design end-to-end user journeys, and successfully collaborate with other disciplines across the business to bring new ideas to life. Together with our team of designers and researchers, you will help us create innovative experiences fundamental to connecting customers with their next favorite game.

Responsibilities

• Drive design system foundations and components that power gaming experiences 
• Collaborate with partners to define goals, present, and deliver design artifacts on time and at high quality
• Create elegant and easily understood diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, interaction guidelines, and other related artifacts in service of business and user goals
• Apply iterative approach towards shared long-term goals and vision
• Demonstrate design concepts and strategy through prototyping
• Build consensus around design direction
• Develop and articulate rationale from research, insights, analytics, and other inputs
• Lead brainstorming, critiques, and work sessions
• Create and manage Figma component libraries across our products

Qualifications

Role 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).
• 7+ years of designing high quality digital product experiences end-to-end (large-scale products preferred) and demonstrated application in market.
• Deep understanding of interaction design principles and process (conceptual modeling, heuristics, patterns, usability, etc.)
• Deep understanding of visual design principles and process (typography, iconography, composition, color, layout, etc.)
• 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

• Ability to cultivate and maintain positive working relationships across disciplines.
• High quality written and verbal communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Profciency in strategic thinking, problem solving, and consensus-building skills.
• Mastery of Figma and experience with other design tools (Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)
• Experience with prototyping tools (Figma, ProtoPie, Flinto, Framer, Unity, etc.)

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   

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 20, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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