Product Design Director (Advertiser Experiences)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; 4 days per week in-office

Salary: USD $165,600–$296,400 per year across the U.S.; USD $220,800–$331,200 per year in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.

Company

Microsoft AI Monetization builds AI-powered products and advertising and monetization experiences for advertisers, publishers, sellers, and consumers.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and grow the Advertiser design team across complex product areas.
• Define the experience vision, design principles, roadmaps, narratives, and measurable outcomes for advertiser products.
• Design advertiser workflows for goal expression, guided setup, recommendations, automation, supervision, approvals, transparency, recovery, and optimization.
• Drive collaboration with product management, engineering, research, data science, marketing, sales, business planning, and support.
• Pioneer an AI-native, prototype-first design operating model using AI-assisted exploration, natural-language-to-code prototyping, design agents, and evaluation loops.
• Champion responsible AI, accessibility, inclusive design, reusable patterns, and high-quality shipped experiences.

Requirements

• Master's degree in industrial design, product design, human-computer interaction, user experience, interaction design, or a related field plus 7+ years of product or service design experience; or bachelor's degree plus 9+ years; equivalent experience is also considered.
• 5+ years of people management experience.
• Strong product thinking, interaction and visual design craft, customer empathy, systems thinking, and experience demonstrating impact through shipped products.
• Experience setting experience vision, leading design strategy, and influencing product direction across multiple teams or product areas.
• Experience collaborating with product, engineering, research, and data partners from strategy through implementation.
• Strong communication, storytelling, executive presentation, and team-culture-building skills.

Nice to have

• Experience designing advertising, marketing, commerce, analytics, workflow, enterprise, or marketplace products.
• Experience with AI-powered, agentic, recommendation, automation, or decision-support experiences.
• Experience with delegation, supervision, transparency, approvals, rollback, auditability, and human-in-the-loop control.
• Experience with AI-assisted design, natural-language-to-code workflows, rapid prototyping, or code-forward exploration.
• Experience with Figma, modern design collaboration tools, front-end technologies, or design-system implementation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small, diverse, collaborative, and fast-moving creative team.
• Use evidence-based decision-making, customer insight, research, experimentation, and product data.
• Build products with an emphasis on quality, simplicity, meaningful innovation, polish, accessibility, and responsible AI.
• Eligible roles may receive benefits and other compensation.