Sarah Oconnor

Background

About Sarah Oconnor

Design leader with over a decade of experience in tech, focused on bringing clarity to complexity and helping teams and products grow along the way. I started my career as a software engineer but found my home in UX, where I could combine systems thinking, creativity, and empathy to shape experiences that make things easier for others. Today, I lead a team of talented designers and researchers driving UX for Azure Networking at Microsoft — partnering closely with product and engineering to improve some of the most technical parts of the cloud for over a million users worldwide. What matters most to me: → Creating products and experiences that make things easier, clearer, and approachable for others → Building strong, supportive design teams where people feel empowered to do their best work → Bringing design closer to product and engineering — working as one team toward shared goals → Spotting opportunities for UX to be a strategic differentiator for the product and the business → Growing future design leaders who are curious, confident, and committed to supporting others