Principal Product Designer
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Drive product experience strategy and interaction design for a v1 product while collaborating across teams. Lead design initiatives that influence product direction and ensure design coherence.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to improve our processes, products, and culture
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
- Demonstrated sense of interaction design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design
- Exceptional visual design skills
- Effective communication and presentation / storytelling skills
- Proficiency designing in Figma
Key Skills
- Product Design
- Interaction Design
- Visual Design
- Communication
- Storytelling
- Figma
- Design Thinking
- User Experience
- Accessibility
- Inclusive Design
- User Research
- Prototyping
- Wireframing
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Leadership
- Strategic Thinking
Benefits
- Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year
- Benefits and other compensation
- Diverse and inclusive work environment
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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