Principal Product Designer - Redmond, United States - Microsoft

Description

OverviewIf you're passionate about generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), have a knack for creative ideas, and lead with a growth mindset, we want to hear from you.

The Microsoft AI Design & Research team is a creative community of designers and researchers on a mission to create and deliver holistic customer experiences while imagining the future of web and Windows experiences.

Between Windows, Edge, Copilot, Bing, and apps, we're creating end to end web experiences from generative AI, to search, shopping, ads, news, sports, and gaming.

Our diverse team works collaboratively to create products and ideas that empower us to move fast to build seamless and delightful experiences for billions of customers worldwide.

Join us We are seeking a Principal Product Designer with consumer product design experience to help us with the next wave of features for our generative AI product, Microsoft Copilot.

For this role we're looking for a leader with both design skills and strategic thinking; you should have good visual and interaction design skills and be comfortable with ambiguity involved in defining new patterns in generative AI.

You will influence teams with concepts, prototypes, and evangelize new customer experiences as well as help evolve our design system, working across teams to bring design coherence to our framework and create beautiful, inclusive, and accessible experiences that customers love.

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.

Responsibilities
Drive product experience strategy, interaction design, creative direction, and craftsmanship for Microsoft Copilot
Drive cross-team collaborations among all disciplines from early product stages to implementation
Understand the behaviors, motivations, and needs of our customers to develop relevant and impactful experiences
Contribute to strategic product planning via experience roadmaps
Propose creative solutions to complex user experience journeys, drawing on your ability to map end-to-end experiences
Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to improve our processes, products, and culture, influencing design direction and research methodologies
Set, drive, and execute design's direction for Copilot, influencing partners and stakeholders based on priorities that balance the customer needs and business impact
Lead design on highly visible products or set of design initiatives with notable risk and complexity
Drives cross-organization experience to impact broader organizational at scale or enable the team to scale
Embody our culture and values

QualificationsRequired/Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design
OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design
OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).


Additional/Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated sense of interaction design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design
Proven visual design skills
Effective communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas
Experience designing in Figma
Experience working with generative AI, preferred
Resume must include a link to design portfolio

Product Design IC- The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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Microsoft will accept applications and process offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.
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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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