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Microsoft Calendar – Time and Places is a core team within Microsoft 365, focused on redefining how people manage time, coordinate schedules, and connect across organizations. By deeply integrating AI through Microsoft Copilot, the team is transforming the calendar experience into a proactive, intelligent assistant that helps users plan smarter, reduce friction, and stay focused. Calendar Copilot features offer intelligent suggestions, meeting prep, follow-ups, and time protection—making scheduling not just easier, but more meaningful. As Microsoft continues to evolve the future of work, the Time and Places team plays a pivotal role in embedding AI into everyday routines, ensuring that time is spent with intention and impact. In essence, this team is not just building a calendar—they’re shaping the rhythm of modern work. As a Senior Product Designer, you will define specific product needs based on user insights to ideate and define solutions that meet user needs. You will create and develop design concepts and specifications that optimize the emotional and functional experience of a product. You will focus on end-to-end user experiences, empathizing and balancing experiences with business and technical tradeoffs. This opportunity will allow you accelerate your career growth, deepen your user-centered design, design leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills. You will produce visual designs from concept through delivery and sustainment, support interaction designs for software-based experiences, and partner with internal development teams, product teams and design groups to research and analyze customer feedback for incorporation into product enhancements, new product designs and overall design language and strategy.
Job Responsibility:
AI-Augmented Design Workflow: Integrate AI tools daily to accelerate ideation, content generation, prototyping, and iteration
Explore agentic workflows, adaptive interfaces, and emerging human-AI interaction patterns
Translate ambiguous AI concepts into tangible prototypes that communicate real system behaviors
Design Excellence: Understand the behaviors, motivations, and needs of our customers to develop and deliver relevant and impactful experiences
In-depth understanding of Design Systems and how to deliver impactful experiences within those constraints
Product thinking: Enthusiastically seeking to understand the broader context in which a product exists, including its users, market, and business goals
Design Leadership: Provides guidance to the team of product designers
Ensures full understanding of the original design and vision, and links to established problem and/or goal
Influences those outside of design
Experience Vision: Envision the future AI vision of the product, aligned with user needs, business objectives, and technical requirements, to ensure a seamless and engaging user experience
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Interact with research, product managers, engineers, and executive stakeholders to define, iterate, and implement new and existing product features, ensuring alignment with business, technical, and user requirements
Work with user researchers to coordinate testing efforts, interpret test results, and incorporate results into design efforts
Participate in and contribute to foundational research
Influence Through Storytelling: Use narrative structure, data, and visual metaphors to influence decisions
Tailor communication for executives, engineers, and cross-functional teams—clearly articulating tradeoffs, opportunities, and rationale
Compelling Communication & Storytelling: Present design concepts and decisions to cross functional partners and stakeholders, articulating design rationale clearly and effectively
Mentorship: Foster a culture of creativity and innovation through mentorship and collaboration with other designers
Requirements:
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)
Experience designing and prototyping in Figma
Experience with using After Effects
Hands-on experience using AI-assisted design workflows (e.g., generating variations, refining concepts, prototyping system behaviors, or creating content with AI tools)
Ability to translate AI capabilities into meaningful product scenarios, identifying where AI enhances user value and simplifying complex behaviors into intuitive experiences
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
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)
4+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process
Experience designing for growth, where design solutions are evaluated based on usage, growth, or retention metrics
Experience that demonstrates proven ability to advocate for design thinking, effectively influence design outcomes, discover problems and tackle them in fast-paced environments