About the Role
At Xbox Media, we’re reimagining how brands connect with millions of players worldwide. We’re looking for a Product Designer to help create innovative, immersive ad formats that blend naturally into gaming environments. This role sits at the intersection of creative design, interaction design, and product design. You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, game studios, researchers, and creative strategists to design and develop ad experiences that are player-first, engaging, and commercially effective.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the end-to-end design of new immersive ad formats, from early concepts and prototypes through to production.
- Translate product requirements and early ideas into clear, cohesive design solutions that feel native to gameplay.
- Participate in creative ideation sessions and contribute concepts that balance player experience with advertiser value.
- Communicate design ideas through clear storytelling, visual design, prototypes, and motion.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, marketing, creative, and research partners to develop and iterate on concepts.
- Design interaction patterns and visual systems that are intuitive, engaging, and aligned with game mechanics.
- Support player research and playtesting to validate design decisions and improve the experience.
- Create and maintain design documentation, specifications, and implementation guidelines.
- Incorporate feedback from design leads, stakeholders, users, and cross-functional partners.
- Advocate for player needs and high-quality design throughout the product development process.
- Stay informed about trends in gaming, advertising, interaction design, and immersive media.
- Create animations and polished prototypes that demonstrate user interface interactions and intended behaviors.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience in product, interaction, visual, or creative design required; 8+ years preferred.
- A portfolio demonstrating thoughtful product and interaction design work, including examples of interactive or game-related experiences.
- Experience applying, evolving, or contributing to visual design systems.
- Experience using prototyping or motion tools such as Principle, Framer, After Effects, or similar platforms.
- A solid understanding of user-centered design principles, interaction design, and visual design fundamentals.
Skills
- Product design
- Interaction design
- Visual design
- Creative design
- Prototyping
- Motion design
- User-centered design principles
- Illustration skills
- Game design
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
- 8+ years preferred
Education Level
- BA/BS degree preferred
- Equivalent combinations of education and relevant experience may be considered
Salary/Compensations
- $124,000.00 - $229,400.00 Annual
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
- Relocation assistance may be provided if the Company requires a geographic move
About the Company
- Xbox Media builds the player-first, full-stack monetization technology that powers advertising across Xbox surfaces and ad-supported gameplay.
- We enable meaningful player engagement, publisher success, and platform growth by delivering trusted, high-quality ad experiences at global scale.
- Backed by Xbox and Microsoft, our platform blends deep gaming insights, privacy-forward data, and world-class engineering to make Xbox Media the most effective and trusted ad platform in gaming.
