Microsoft Senior Voice Designer

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Job Details

Posted date: Jul 17, 2025

Category: Design & Creative

Location: Redmond, WA

Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000

Employment type: Full-Time

Travel amount: 25.0%

Work location type: Up to 100% work from home

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

The M365 Core Design team is looking for a systems-minded Senior Voice Designer to help share the future of AI-powered experiences in the Microsoft Copilot Chat team. This is a role that works across voice, screen and vision modalities to create intuitive, inclusive and delightful conversational UX Experiences.

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.

Design end-to-end conversational experiences across voice in/out, screen + voice, and vision + voice modalities on Windows, Web, Mobile and across multiple app experiences.Collaborate with LLM service teams to shape prompt strategies, output formatting, and fallback behaviors.Prototype and test multimodal interactions that balance clarity, efficiency, and delight.Define interaction models for turn-taking, interruptibility, and contextual grounding in voice-first and hybrid experiences.Partner with researchers, PMs, scientists, and engineers to validate designs and iterate based on user feedback and telemetry.Contribute to design systems and frameworks that scale across products and platforms.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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 designOR 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 designOR equivalent experience.4+ years of experience in UX design, with at least 2 years focused on conversational interfaces or voice UX.Other Requirements:

A portfolio demonstrating multimodal interaction design (e.g., voice + screen, vision + voice).Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with LLM architectures, speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) systems.

Solid portfolio demonstrating multimodal interaction design (e.g., voice + screen, vision + voice).

Deep understanding of speech UX constraints, LLM behavior, and prompt engineering.

Experience designing for accessibility, trust, and personality in AI-driven systems.

Proficiency in Figma, prototyping tools, and usability testing methods.Experience working on Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar AI assistants.

Background in linguistics, cognitive science, or human-computer interaction (HCI).

Experience designing for low-latency, real-time voice interactions.

Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 23, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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