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Senior Designer

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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA, New York, NY$142.8k - $296.4kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Designer in the Engines & Experiences Design Studio at Microsoft, focused on creating scalable creative systems (identity, typography, color, motion, and component libraries) for Microsoft’s commercial brands across customer, partner, media, and marketer experiences. Combines visual design, brand identity, social storytelling, and AI-enhanced workflows to enable on-brand production at scale. Mentors designers, collaborates across marketing, product, and engineering, and represents the studio in strategic forums.

Responsibilities

  • Translate strategic goals into scalable creative systems — identity, typography, color, motion, and component libraries — that drive brand consistency across campaigns, platforms, and social channels.
  • Lead visual design direction for a portfolio of initiatives spanning customer, partner, media, and marketer audiences, holding the quality bar from concept through final delivery.
  • Define and evolve brand identity systems for Microsoft’s commercial brands so they read clearly and resonate with global audiences across digital, experiential, and social surfaces.
  • Build and maintain brand guidelines and toolkits that empower internal teams and external agencies to produce on-brand work at volume without per-asset oversight.
  • Integrate AI tools into creative workflows — ideation, prototyping, variation, and production — and establish reusable prompts, styles, and pipelines the studio builds on.
  • Partner with marketing, product, and engineering to turn complex technology into creative that simplifies and elevates the customer experience, and fold campaign data and audience insight back into how the system evolves.
  • Mentor designers and give clear, actionable feedback in reviews; provide direction to the Art team internally and externally, and lead partner reviews to align on vision.
  • Represent the Design Studio in strategic forums, advocating for design excellence and user-centered thinking — manage assets responsibly, tagging with sensitivity labels and optimizing secure, access-controlled storage.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or Certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Communications or related field AND 8+ years experience in art design or a related art field working on computer games or entertainment OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Brand design and identity systemsVisual designAI-enabled creative workflows
Nice to have:Design systems and component librariesCross-functional leadershipStakeholder management
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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