Principal Product Designer
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
You will lead the production of visual designs and oversee the creation of various design documents. Additionally, you will guide communication with cross-disciplinary teams and tell compelling product stories to influence key stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
- Be responsible for attracting and retaining great people
- Ensure quality by leading interactions with teams and driving QAs while pushing the design agenda forward
- Lead the production of visual designs while overseeing the creation of a variety of visual design documents
- Identify scenarios that will turn into interaction designs
- Direct teams to improve product UX through the creation of interaction models while acting as a liaison between users and products
- Guide communication with cross-disciplinary teams across all stages of design and development
- Tell a compelling, convincing product story to a variety of audiences that influences buy-in from key stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field
- 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
Key Skills
- Strong background in product design
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders
Benefits
- Competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around personal needs and those close to you
- Investment in health, wellness, and financial future
About Microsoft
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
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