Zaid A.

About Zaid A.

As a product leader at Microsoft, I lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers, designers, and program managers within the Azure Growth Experiences Studio. Our mission is to accelerate enterprise product development by providing cutting-edge design system operations, AI tooling, and frameworks that enable coherent, accessible, and impactful user experiences. With nearly 20 years of experience in engineering, I specialize in delivering scalable solutions, building cross-functional teams, and driving innovation in generative AI tools and design ecosystems. My leadership focuses on empowering teams to ship seamless, high-performance enterprise products, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry standards.

Experience

1. Principal Manager - Engineering Design Program Management -- Azure Growth Experiences Studio

   Microsoft

   May 2025 — Present · CA, US

   Managing a team of Engineers, Designers, and Program Managers for the Azure Growth Experiences Studio organization focused on Design System Operations and AI Tooling. We provide the frameworks, tools, libraries, guidance and support to help accelerate enterprise product teams in Microsoft.Notable Projects- Azure and Coherence Design Toolkits - enhances the Fluent standard for enterprise products- CHARM Component Libraries - a multi-tiered design ecosystem of web components (customElement) that aligns to Fluent / Coherence designs as well as web/accessibility standards, and is used across several major products and platforms both internal/external across Microsoft- Figma Puller - a system that treats Figma as a CMS extracting design components, tokens, and specifications directly from the Figma API and synchronizes them to web experiences- Auditron - an AI-driven multi-agent orchestration auditing platform designed to improve UX QA and Compliance processes that can handle complex auditing tasks with transparencey and scalability- Cartographer - a web platform to organize scattered research insights into structured relationships, translating Jobs to be Done (JTBD) frameworks into actionable product features and planning workflows, bridging UX Research Data and Product Backlog to enable better alignment and decision-making across teamsAdditional notes- Supporting a community of ~2k product makers throughout Microsoft- most notable products/platforms our team supports and either integrate or use our offerings include - Azure Portal - Azure Quantum OS - Partner Center - Operator Partner Portal

Education

• The University of Texas at San Antonio

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical & Computer Engineering

  2004 — 2006

• Ohlone College

  Computer Science

Skills

• Sftp
• Ssh
• Terminal
• Cloud Computing
• Subversion
• Linux
• Xml
• Javascript
• Sql
• Java
• Php
• Html
• Python
• C++
• Xhtml
• Css
• Git
• Jquery
• Jquery UI
• Mysql
• Mongodb
• Mongo
• Mvc
• Apache
• Lamp
• Databases
• Web Services
• Oop
• Html 5
• Assembly Language
• Objective-C
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Html5
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Django
• Html + Css
• C#
• Advanced Css
• Smarty
• Business Development