Overview

By joining our team, you will be at the heart of envisioning, creating, and crafting Microsoft Teams – the ultimate AI forward productivity workspace for real-time collaboration and communication, meetings, file and app sharing.

As a Product Designer working on the Teams Design System, you will define industry‑standard design patterns for the Teams Mobile and Desktop/Web apps. You’ll develop and maintain UI kits, UI and UX usage guidelines, and best practices for internal and external stakeholders. In close collaboration with feature designers and engineers, you’ll design, spec, and deliver components and design system infrastructure underpinning the Teams product and the broader Fluent design system. You will operate at the front lines of design system advancement—leading with AI‑powered solutions to evolve how systems are created, maintained, and scaled. This includes shaping and leveraging AI‑driven tooling and workflows to dramatically improve efficiency, consistency, and speed, while helping define the future of how designers build with and through the system. Additionally, you’ll create, audit, and continuously innovate on design assets used daily by designers, ensuring quality, trust, and highly efficient end‑to‑end workflows.

This opportunity will allow you to grow your design systems craft, learn how to collaborate effectively with engineers and feature designers on shared infrastructure, and develop early expertise in applying AI‑driven tools and workflows to streamline system creation and maintenance.

As a Product Designer, you will contribute to the implementation and upkeep of existing design system components and assets across mobile and web surfaces. You’ll support senior designers by helping prepare component specs, updating documentation, and ensuring system assets remain accurate, accessible, and up to date. You’ll incorporate feedback from feature teams, and make impactful improvements to Design System resources and guidelines. You’ll also participate in design reviews, build fluency with design system tools and workflows, and develop an understanding of how shared systems are used in real product scenarios.

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

• Support an AI‑enabled design system by helping maintain components, tokens, and documentation that integrate effectively with AI‑assisted design and design‑to‑code workflows.
• Use AI tools responsibly to improve efficiency and quality—supporting component updates, documentation, and consistency checks while learning best practices for accessibility, system standards, and responsible AI use.
• Enable design system adoption by creating and improving resources such as quick starts, readmes, in‑tool guidance, Share Point content, and participating in office hours or consultations to reduce friction for designers.
• Collaborate closely with engineering partners and participate in quality assurance to ensure system components meet design, accessibility, and implementation standards, while developing the confidence to surface and question design limitations.
• Create supporting artifacts such as user flows, decision trees, and interaction models to help clarify system behavior and contribute to broader product UX improvements.
• Produce clear, detailed design specifications that communicate component structure, behavior, accessibility requirements, and visual guidelines to cross‑disciplinary partners.
• Work collaboratively with designers, product managers, engineers, and researchers to help deliver polished, production‑ready components, patterns, and documentation.
• Communicate and present your work and learnings within your studio team, developing the ability to advocate for design decisions in the context of user needs and business goals.

Qualifications Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field
• OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 1+ year(s) relevant internship/work 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 2+ years related work 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)

Product Design IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 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.

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.