Product Designer II

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 designer in the team, you will define specific product needs based on user insights to ideate and define [KF1] 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.
As a Product Designer II, you bring curiosity, thoughtful questioning, and the ability to challenge assumptions while staying grounded in existing systems and patterns. You balance learning with contributing, proactively exploring new design possibilities while integrating them responsibly within the product ecosystem. With AI reshaping design practice, you are expected to move beyond basic adoption and actively influence how AI integrates into workflows—designing human-AI interactions that emphasize trust, transparency, and responsible use.

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.

• Deliver world-class design solutions from the initial concept through finished product
• Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business, user goals, and ecosystem considerations.
• Incorporate system and framework thinking and pattern-matching into solutions to reinforce integrity of design system and product cohesion
• Contribute to the visual systems and visual language for a product.
• Strategically integrate AI tools into design workflows—for ideation, prototyping, and evaluating system behaviors. Understand model capabilities, data dependencies, and ethical implications to design human-AI interactions grounded in trust and clarity.
• Consolidate insights from research, engineering, PM, and data signals into clear design direction. Prioritize feedback based on impact and feasibility, ensuring solutions stay aligned to core user goals.
• Leverage qualitative and quantitative data—including behavioral metrics, usage patterns, and engagement signals—to validate hypotheses and refine designs. Ask meaningful questions to uncover friction points and improvement opportunities.
• Work closely and constructively with product management, content designers, user researchers, engineers and other designers to iterate and deliver design artifacts and solutions.
• Create wireframes, journey maps, prototypes and detailed mockups to iterate on product scenarios.
• Clearly communicate your work to peers and leadership.
• Own multiple product areas, identify new opportunities and generate innovative through deep customer understanding, ensuring the experience vision is driven by user needs and manage launches and iterations.
• Cross-functional and cross-divisional communication and dependency management and seeing through implementation by collaborating with engineering through the finish line.
• Thrive in a complex, design-driven, product development cycle. Measure success with data and research.
• Embody our culture and values.

• 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 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 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
• Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted design tools for ideation, prototyping, and refining user flows, with an understanding of model behaviors, constraints, and responsible AI guidelines.

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: