Product Design Manager

By joining our Azure Growth Experiences team, you’ll be at the forefront of driving our product-led growth strategy by delivering seamless, end-to-end experiences for Microsoft Azure Cloud. You’ll operate at the intersection of envisioning, creating, and crafting—while rapidly advancing in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) space. You’ll collaborate with like-minded creatives and user-centered experts who share your passion for innovation.

As a Product Design Manager in the Cloud Infrastructure Experience (CIX) space, you will lead a team of seasoned product designers focused on bringing simplicity and cohesion to a complex and fragmented environment in cloud storage, operations, compute and networking. You will be at the forefront of innovation, shaping AI-driven experiences that streamline critical jobs-to-be-done for Microsoft Azure Cloud customers, and collaborating closely within a multi-disciplinary team of product makers.

This role offers the opportunity to lead design work that not only impacts Fortune 500 companies, but also supports our Product-Led Growth strategy to attract startups through mid-sized companies. You will influence the overall design vision and drive the integration of AI to transform the Azure experience end-to-end. This position offers flexibility to work remotely or collaborate in person at our Redmond, Washington, USA campus.

As a Product Design Manager and leader, you will translate user insights into clear product needs, ideating and defining solutions that meet those needs while creating design concepts and specifications that optimize both the emotional and functional user experience. You’ll focus on end-to-end user journeys, balancing user needs with business and technical trade-offs. Your work through your team will include producing visual designs from concept through delivery, supporting interaction design experiences, and collaborating with internal and external development teams, marketing, and User Experience (UX) partners. You’ll also research and analyze customer feedback to inform product enhancements, new designs, and the overall design language and strategy.

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.

• 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 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 equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)
• 3+ years people management experience. 

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 12+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR Master'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)
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 6+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.
• 3+ years experience working in a complex, high paced enterprise environment is preferred.
• 2+ years proficiency working in a product squad model as a proactive driver of end-to-end experience.

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 13, 2025.

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• You will deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring and be responsible for attracting and retaining great people.
• You will ensure quality by leading interactions with teams and driving design critiques while pushing the design agenda forward and will also lead the production of visual designs while overseeing the creation of a variety of visual design documents.
• You will identify scenarios that will turn into interaction designs and direct your teams to improve product UX through the creation of interaction models while acting as a liaison between users and products.
• You will lead communication with cross-disciplinary teams across all stages of design and development and will also tell a compelling, convincing product story to a variety of audiences that influences buy-in from key stakeholders.
• You will lead collaboration with creative team members, product managers and developers 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.