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Principal Product Designer

Microsoft 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America

$139,900 - $274,800 Full-time Senior

Lead the design of complex end-to-end experiences across multiple teams and products. Partner with various stakeholders to define vision and deliver cohesive solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design of complex end-to-end experiences spanning multiple teams, products, or initiatives
  • Define experience vision, interaction models, and design principles aligned with user and business needs
  • Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, influencing what teams build and why
  • Partner closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and content teams to deliver cohesive solutions

Requirements

  • Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field
  • 6+ years experience working in product or service design
  • Proven experience leading design for platform-scale, AI-powered, or data-informed products
  • Demonstrated ability to influence across teams and leadership levels without direct authority

Benefits

  • Base pay range of $139,900 - $274,800 per year
  • Additional compensation and benefits
  • Opportunity to work on AI-powered innovations that impact billions of lives

Key Skills

Figma AI prototyping tools Interaction design Visual design Product thinking User research Data analysis UX design Design systems Design principles Cross-functional collaboration Communication Mentoring Leadership Design thinking Prototyping Wireframing

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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