Product Design Manager

Microsoft; United States; On-site; USD 139,900 - 274,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Competitive salary

Inclusive work culture

Job summary

A leading technology company in the United States is looking for a Product Design Manager to lead a team in enhancing design frameworks across productivity apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on mobile and tablet platforms. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product design, strong technical knowledge, and a passion for user-centered design. This role offers a competitive salary range and opportunities for creative collaboration and innovation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in product design required for Master's Degree holders.
• Experience managing teams and delivering results in design systems.
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools with examples of work.

Responsibilities

• Model and coach team members for performance and accountability.
• Drive innovation in user experience design across multiple apps.
• Lead collaboration on product features with diverse teams.

Skills

Design leadership

User experience design

Technical depth

AI model knowledge

Team collaboration

Education

Master's Degree in a related field

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

Figma

VS Code

Azure DevOps

Job description

Overview

Curious about how we design across operating systems and new hardware? Want to challenge yourself by melding world-class productivity apps with native platform expectations alongside a fast-evolving platter of AI capabilities? We are a horizontal design team within the Office Product Group Design Studio looking for a Product Design Manager who can elevate our experience and design framework across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to bring Office on mobile and tablet platforms to new heights. You will lead a focused team of designers for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Apple platforms (iOS, iPad, macOS) to design native experiences via a blend of OS conventions and the Fluent Design System. You’ll partner closely with sibling teams well-versed on Windows and web platforms in the Office Shared Design team, and with mobile partner teams across the globe to deliver a cohesive suite of productivity experiences across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Key initiatives for the mobile and tablet apps for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint include frequent updates to the interaction patterns, affordances, and new capabilities offered by the OS, keeping our apps modern and beautiful and focused on getting our users maximum productivity in their day-to-day workflows. At the same time, we have heavy investments in infusing AI-powered productivity enhancement scenarios into the apps. Your team will be at the forefront of delivering experience that brings out the full power of Microsoft 365 Copilot with a mobile-first optimization and thoughtfulness.

A bit about us. We share. We jam. We collaborate and work in the open with many teams concurrently. We contribute and learn from one another—evolving good designs to great designs using the latest technologies and adapting to the transforming landscape that is product design... we work in small, cross-app, interdisciplinary teams to ensure we build products that are inclusive, efficient, and delightful. We make-to-think. We prototype and test. We work from small to large screens and back again. We build both category-leading apps and define durable ecosystem scaling across them.

We tell compelling, emotional stories to spark innovation, win new fans, and bring our existing users along for the ride. We push boundaries— constantly—because we believe in the magic of bold ideas.

We want creative thinkers and leaders, especially those with a keen product sense for mobile and tablet forms and user needs. Strategists who dare to challenge the established norms of product design process and innovate in a model-forward way. Mentors who can coach and invigorate their team to blend creative product visions and user stories with curiosity for technical depth alongside our Applied Scientists, Prompt Engineers, and Model experts.

If you’re feeling adventurous and stoked for the above, let’s chat. We cannot wait to create with you.

Microsoft’s 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

• You will deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring and be responsible for attracting and retaining great people.
• You will deliver product changes and business results through highly crafted and held quality standards, addressing complex and challenging system issues, and achieve impactful outcomes and strategy alignment with cross-functional leaders
• You will drive the designing and delivering of innovative user experience and product truths in established design systems, contribute towards evolution in design systems at scale, and impart product design leadership across multiple apps and products within the ecosystem
• You will compose highly polished design prototypes, mockups, framing memos, creative briefs, and other narrative artifacts for storytelling, building consensus, and uniting visions and rhythms at executive levels and influence buy-in from key stakeholders
• You will lead collaboration with creative team members, program managers and developers across geographies and time zones to define product features and collaborate with leadership and your team to deliver product design results while also providing guidance to product designers and creating clarity for stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ 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 8+ 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).
• 1+ year AI model / LLM knowledge, specifically around developing features using LLMs, shipping it into actual products
• 3+ years people management experience
• 3+ years experience in product design roles delivering platform optimized UX in mobile (iOS or Android) or tablet form factors.
• 3+ years practiced proficiency in a variety of design, prototyping, productivity tools such as Figma, Figma Make, Lovable AI, Framer, Origami, or common IDEs (VS Code, XCode, Cursor, etc.) with examples of interactive and complex design artifacts produced in these tools

Other Requirements

• 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.
• Please include URLs for an online portfoliodemonstratingyour design leadership, philosophy, team building process,team culture initiatives, product design excellence & impact, in addition to a resume.Submissions without a portfolio included will not be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year experience shipping products in agile environments/cadence, especially exposure to PMF exercises and PLG experimentations, along with speculative / high-risk conceptual iterations in products
• 2+ years familiarity and ability to coordinate work progress via GitHub, AzureDevOps, or similar tools such as Jira, etc. with examples of design operational leadership preferences in these tools
• Demonstrated experience working well with cross-geography and time zone teams with active roles in setting short- and long-term strategy, with concrete examples of cross-team conflict resolution and communication

Product Design M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 September 26, 2025.

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

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