Applications Dev & Test - Product Designer 3

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Job Description: Product Designer 3 - Microsoft Purview UX Team
Overview

Microsoft Security is on a mission to make the digital world safer for everyone. Within this mission, the Purview UX Team designs trusted, human-centered experiences that empower enterprises to manage, protect, and govern their data with confidence. We are a multidisciplinary team of Product Designers, UX Researchers, Content Designers, and UX Engineers working closely with PM and Engineering to deliver seamless, enterprise-grade solutions across administrative and AI-driven scenarios.

Data security, compliance, and governance are among the most pressing challenges for organizations today. Purview is rapidly innovating to meet these needs, building momentum as a market leader and shaping the future of enterprise security experiences. As a Product Designer 3, you will play a pivotal role in designing intuitive, accessible, and scalable solutions that balance usability with rigorous trust and compliance standards.
Purpose of the Role

The Product Designer 3 will:

• Own and design end-to-end user experiences for Purview, focusing on data security, governance, compliance, and privacy.
• Collaborate with PM and Engineering partners to deliver high-quality UX across administrative workflows and emerging AI/agent-driven experiences.
• Elevate design quality by applying systems thinking, prototyping in Figma and code, and leveraging design systems to ensure coherence across Microsoft Security's product suite.

Typical Day in the Role

• Align priorities in daily stand-ups with designers, PMs, and engineers to ensure clear ownership and accountability.
• Refine user flows and wireframes for enterprise-grade security and compliance scenarios, ensuring accessibility and trust standards.
• Engage in deep design work to create high-fidelity prototypes, validate interaction patterns, and incorporate feedback from usability studies and stakeholder reviews.
• Collaborate with engineering partners to iterate on designs during implementation, ensuring pixel-perfect execution while challenging technical limitations.
• Leverage shared design systems to maintain coherence across Purview experiences and contribute to evolving design standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and own product design needs for a set of experiences, synthesizing user insights and business requirements into actionable design strategies.
• Generate ideation solutions that balance business, user, and technical perspectives, articulating clear design narratives.
• Prototype new products and features rapidly, presenting to teams and customers to validate solutions.
• Create wireframes, journey maps, personas, task flows, and interaction models to support intuitive, human-centered experiences.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to ensure successful design implementation and iterate on solutions during development.
• Apply and extend Microsoft's design system, contributing to shared libraries and team education.
• Communicate proactively with cross-disciplinary teams, setting context for stakeholders and ensuring inclusive, respectful collaboration.
• Explore innovative storytelling methods (e.g., video, sound) to convey user needs and product narratives.
• Influence and support team members, contributing to collective success and amplifying design impact across the organization.

Qualifications
Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years of product/service design experience
  • OR equivalent experience applying design thinking to solve complex problems.

Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field AND 5+ years of product/service design experience
  • OR Master's Degree in a related field AND 3+ years of product/service design experience.
• 2+ years shipping products or delivering customer-facing solutions through end-to-end design processes.

? Ideal Candidate Background

• Strong product thinking combined with deep UX expertise.
• Experience designing enterprise-grade solutions with a focus on accessibility, trust, and usability.
• Familiarity with design systems and information architecture.
• Curiosity and aptitude for leveraging AI-driven design tools and paradigms.
• Proven ability to collaborate in fast-paced, autonomous squad models with clear accountability and measurable outcomes.
• Skilled in prototyping, usability testing, and iterative design to deliver cohesive end-to-end workflows.
• Thrives in environments that balance speed with quality, clarity with creativity.

Top 3 Must-Have Hard Skills
SkillExperience RequiredAdvanced Figma usage (design libraries, shared components, expert workflows)2+ yearsSystems thinking across design ecosystems5-7 yearsAI-related design tools, paradigms, or workflows2+ years Why Join Us?

At Microsoft Security, you'll be part of a culture that embraces a growth mindset, inspires excellence, and encourages teams to bring their best every day. Your work will directly impact billions of lives worldwide by shaping secure, human-centered digital experiences that empower enterprises to thrive in a complex, ever-changing landscape.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.