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"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent."
β Joe Sparano
Principal Product Designer, Platform
Microsoft β’ Redmond, United States of America πΊπΈ
Own a product area and be responsible for understanding user needs and behaviors, defining product requirements, and managing end-to-end product development. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build exceptional consumer-grade applications and ensure high-quality design standards.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Partnering with Product Managers, define goals and performance indicators, setup and oversee experiments, measure success with data and research
Requirements
- 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 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 equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)
- 5+ years' experience designing end to end enterprise products or complex systems design
- 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
Key Skills
- Industrial Design
- Product Design
- Human Computer Interaction
- User Experience
- Interaction Design
- Design thinking
- Figma
- HTML/CSS
- Javascript
- LLMs
- Generative AI
- React
- Angular
- JS framework
- Github
- Storybook
About Microsoft
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