Principal Product Designer

The Principal Product Designer will ship world-class AI applications that delight consumers while owning a product area and managing end-to-end product development. This role involves cross-functional communication, understanding user needs, and ensuring high standards of quality and excellence.

Responsibilities

• Ship world-class AI applications that delight consumers with an emphasis on craft, quality, trust, and positive user and societal impact
• Own a product area and be responsible for understanding user needs and behaviors, defining product requirements, managing end-to-end product development, launches and iterations
• Cross-functional communication and dependency management, scoping and scheduling, and seeing through implementation by collaborating with engineering through the finish line
• Find your own path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively
• Set the bar for excellence and quality and hold the team accountable to that standard
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle
• Translate business goals into strategy, user experience and technical requirements in close collaboration with UX designers and AI model training teams
• Define goals and performance indicators, set up and oversee experiments, measure success with data and research
• Collaborate effectively and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to build exceptional consumer-grade applications

Requirements

• 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)

Key Skills

• Portfolio or work samples that demonstrate at least 5 years of experience designing world class consumer products from vision through launch
• Proven track record of setting design vision for innovative products that require bold thinking and risk taking
• Ability to break large bodies of work into a phased execution plan, and lead a cross-functional team from idea to polished implementation
• Demonstrate high craft in design work; must value craft and translate vision into well-polished design prototypes
• Experience that demonstrates proven ability to advocate for design thinking, effectively influence design outcomes, discover problems and tackle them in fast-paced and ambiguous environments
• Experience with diving into research and leveraging both qualitative and quantitative signals for design impact
• Experience prompting LLMs, working with generative AI, or an intense desire to learn
• Ability to own your work in a fast-paced start-up like environment, manage multiple priorities, and adapt to ever-changing requirements and deadlines
• Proven ability to collaborate and contribute to a positive, inclusive work environment, fostering knowledge sharing and growth within the team
• Optional, but lovely: Prototype-level engineering experience like JavaScript or Python

Benefits

• Benefits and other compensation
• Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay