Principal Product Designer

If you’re curious, love to solve problems in creative ways, 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 imagine, create and deliver the future of computing on the web and other platforms. Between Copilot, Edge, Bing, and apps, we’re creating end-to-end experiences for shopping, search, ads, news, sports, gaming, and more. Our diverse team creates products and ideas that empower us to move fast to build seamless and delightful experiences for billions of people worldwide. Join us!     

We are seeking a Principal Product Designer with strong consumer product design experience to help us with the next wave of computing with an emphasis on simplicity, quality and trust. This is an individual contributor role. We’re looking for a leader with both strong design skills and strategic thinking; you should have superb visual and interaction design skills and be comfortable with ambiguity involved in inventing v1 experiences. 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. 

While our preferred location for this position is Redmond, WA, we are open to candidates based anywhere in the United States.

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, 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, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)

Preferred Qualificatins

• 8+ years experience working in product or service design 

• Demonstrated sense of interaction design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design 

• Strong visual design skills 

• Excellent communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas 

• Experience designing in Figma 

Resume must include a link to design portfolio 

Product Design IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 2, 2025. 

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• Drive product experience strategy, interaction design, creative direction, and craftsmanship for a v1 product 

• 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 

• Sets, drives, and executes design’s direction for a product or set of products, 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