Principal Product Designer, Content
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Define and design innovative product features that leverage generative AI to transform user engagement with content. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape product roadmaps and establish design principles.
Responsibilities
- Define and design innovative product features that leverage generative AI to transform how users discover, consume, and engage with content
- Create compelling visual designs and interaction patterns that set new standards for AI-powered media experiences
- Develop and communicate product vision through storytelling, high-fidelity prototypes, and strategic presentations to leadership and cross-functional partners
- Drive design strategy for consumer-facing media products, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
- Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, research, and content teams to shape product roadmaps and prioritize features
- Establish design principles and patterns that scale across multiple surfaces and experiences
- Mentor and elevate design quality across the team through design reviews, feedback, and craft leadership
- Stay ahead of industry trends in AI, media, and design, bringing innovative ideas and best practices to the team
- Understand the behaviors, motivations, and needs of our customers to develop relevant and impactful experiences
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
- 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
- Experience designing in Figma
- Experience working with generative AI and vibe coding, preferred
Key Skills
- Product design
- Visual design
- Storytelling
- Interaction design
- User experience
- User research
- Prototyping
- Wireframing
- Design systems
- Figma
- Generative AI
- Vibe coding
- Communication
- Presentation
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Design thinking
- Agile methodologies
- Scrum
- Kanban
- User-centered design
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Opportunity to work with a talented team of designers, engineers, and researchers
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Professional development opportunities
- Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools
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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