Senior Product Designer

Location: Bengaluru

Overview

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 [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.

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.

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

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. This means going beyond visual craft to consider how design decisions impact user experience, drive business outcomes, and solve real-world problems.
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:

You will 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. You will 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.
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