Amanda Neves — Principal Product Designer

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Seattle, WA · amanda-neves.com · linkedin.com/in/amanda-neves-038113

Principal Product Designer | Agentic UX for Enterprise AI, Security & Device Management

Principal Product Designer leading UX for agentic security and AI experiences across Microsoft Security, enterprise device management, and Windows 365. Drives design direction from early concept through Public Preview, establishes reusable patterns adopted across teams, and aligns design, PM, engineering, and research toward coherent product experiences.

Core Skills

• AI / Agentic UX
• Enterprise & Admin UX
• Windows 365
• Design Systems & Reusable Patterns
• Interaction Design
• Information Architecture
• AI-first Prototyping (VS Code + GitHub Copilot)
• Accessibility
• RBAC
• Copilot for Security
• Cross-functional Leadership & Mentoring
• Figma

Professional Experience

Microsoft, Redmond, WA — May 2000–September 2026

Principal Product Designer (Design Lead), January 2024–September 2026

• Shaped UX for AI agents in enterprise security products — designing multi-step, autonomous workflows that required human review and approval before any high-impact action was taken. This early design foundation fed into Project Perception, Microsoft’s publicly launched multi-agent security system.
• Delivered multiple AI agents into public preview — defining the interaction model, permissions, and governance patterns for agents as a managed system, not one-off features. Owned end-to-end design for the Vulnerability Remediation and Policy Configuration agents; drove design strategy across the broader agent portfolio.
• Bridged the security design-systems (SFE) team and the Intune product team — consuming shared components while contributing new agent-specific patterns back into the shared system, adopted org-wide.
• Developed a set of interaction patterns for AI agents — covering how suggestions are presented, how a remediation plan is generated, and how a person reviews and approves an agent’s proposed action before it executes — now used as shared components across the product.
• Constructed the UX for AI-driven vulnerability remediation — including suggested fixes, reasoning, approval, and progress tracking. An early customer cut a two-week remediation process down to under two minutes.
• Served as org-wide design lead and team multiplier: guided the broader design team through reviews and critiques, mentored designers, enabled smooth design-ownership handoffs, and drove cross-discipline alignment across design, PM, engineering, research, and content.

Senior Product Designer (Design Lead), Windows 365 Management, Intune, January 2019–January 2024

• Led design for the Intune-based Windows 365 admin experience — provisioning, onboarding, management, health, and troubleshooting — from the early pre-launch phase forward.
• Owned design for Windows 365 Frontline/Flex (shared, partial-use Windows 365 instances); designed provisioning, management, and reporting, shipped to Private Preview.
• Designed the Windows 365 health dashboard in Endpoint analytics (connection quality, latency, crashes, health scoring) and Windows 365 reporting.
• Led a research-backed IA change — ‘Windows 365’ and ‘Cloud PC creation’ now clearly separated with a new Device Onboarding section — resolving documented admin confusion between Windows 365, Microsoft 365, and Office 365.
• Owned Boot to Windows 365 on Windows Pro UX; Windows 365 Boot & Switch V2 shipped to Public Preview (Jan 2024) with design credit.

Senior UX Designer, December 2015–January 2019

• Owned end-to-end UX design for Windows Virtual Desktop, a new enterprise virtualization product, from early concept through General Availability — including the admin console and app-publishing workflows — publicly showcased at Microsoft’s flagship enterprise conference.
• Delivered the unified home page and information architecture for Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), consolidating two separate legacy admin consoles into a single coherent product, unveiled to the enterprise IT community at Ignite 2019.
• Served as the sole formal UX sign-off authority for two major enterprise products (Intune and Configuration Manager) for over three years, reviewing and approving all shipped UI.
• Designed and shipped “Specialized Devices” management, a new high-visibility workload (kiosk and multi-app device scenarios), establishing design patterns later adopted product-wide.
• Redesigned mobile app management (MAM) reporting — replacing one oversized report with a modular, filterable pattern — and created a new “Advanced Filter” design pattern subsequently adopted across the product.

UX Designer / UX Designer II, January 2011–December 2015

• Delivered UX for System Center Essentials, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), and Windows Server management scenarios, progressing from UX Designer to UX Designer II.
• Redesigned the Intune sign-up and onboarding experience end-to-end across three separate properties (marketing site, admin console, sign-up flow) — a high-visibility initiative reviewed and approved directly by senior executive leadership.
• Led a console-wide UX consistency audit — documenting inconsistencies across the entire admin product and presenting findings to engineering leadership — helping establish design standards used going forward.
• Identified the need for and drove creation of a self-service design toolkit, adopted broadly by product managers and designers as a scaling tool across the organization.

Web Developer / Systems Administrator, May 2000–December 2011

• Built technical and design foundations across web development, systems administration, and marketing communications.