Mountain View, United States; Redmond, United States
Full job description
Microsoft AI Monetization seeks a Product Design Director to lead the Advertiser design team. The role involves setting experience vision, leading design strategy, and guiding the team to deliver polished, inclusive, and accessible advertising products. Responsibilities include leading and growing the design team, defining product experience vision, designing advertiser workflows, pioneering AI-native design methods, driving cross-functional collaboration, building a prototype-first culture, using data and research to prioritize work, ensuring experience coherence, championing responsible AI, partnering with design systems and engineering, and raising design craft standards. Required qualifications include a relevant advanced degree or equivalent experience with 7+ to 9+ years in product or service design, 5+ years of people management, strong product and design skills, experience with AI-powered design, and excellent communication. Familiarity with Figma and modern design tools is expected. Salary ranges from $165,600 to $370,800 depending on level and location. Locations: Mountain View, CA and Redmond, WA.
What you'll do
Lead, coach, and grow Advertiser design team
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Mountain View, United States; Redmond, United States
Full-time
Define experience vision for advertiser products
Design future advertiser workflows including goal expression, guided setup, recommendations, automation, supervision, approvals, transparency, confidence, recovery, and optimization
Make complex advertising tasks simple and trustworthy across customer segments
Pioneer AI-native design operating model using AI-assisted exploration, prototyping, design agents, synthesis tools, and evaluation loops
Drive cross-functional collaboration from early strategy through launch
Build prototype-first design culture to evaluate ideas and improve product decisions
Use research, customer feedback, product data, experimentation, and business signals to identify opportunities and prioritize work
Create experience coherence across advertiser surfaces
Champion responsible AI patterns for automation
Partner with design systems and engineering to ensure reusable patterns, accessible components, clear content models, and scalable architecture
Raise design craft through critique, storytelling, design reviews, inclusive design, accessibility standards, and high-quality shipped work
Requirements
Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 7+ 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 9+ years experience working in product or service design OR equivalent experience
5+ years people management experience
Strong product thinking, interaction design, visual design, customer empathy, systems thinking, and impact through shipped products
Experience setting experience vision, leading design strategy, and influencing product direction across multiple teams or product areas
Strong visual and interaction design craft
Ability to use research, experimentation, analytics, customer signal, and business context to guide design decisions
Experience collaborating with product management, engineering, research, and data partners
Experience with AI-powered, agentic, recommendation, automation, or decision-support experiences
Fluency in delegation, supervision, transparency, approvals, error recovery, rollback, auditability, and human-in-the-loop control
Experience using AI-assisted design, natural-language-to-code workflows, rapid prototyping, or code-forward exploration
Experience designing for trust, safety, security, privacy, accessibility, and inclusive design
Excellent communication, storytelling, and executive presentation skills
Experience with Figma and modern design collaboration tools; familiarity with prototyping, front-end technologies, or design-system implementation is a plus
Experience building team culture, operating models, critique practices, and design-quality mechanisms
