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Principal Product Designer, Content

Microsoft πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Mountain View, California, United States of America

Onsite $139,900 - $274,800 Full-time Principal

Define and design innovative product features leveraging generative AI to enhance media experiences. 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 CTO 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

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
  • 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
  • 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

Key Skills

  • Interaction design
  • User experience
  • Visual design
  • Communication skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Storytelling skills
  • Figma
  • Generative AI
  • Vibe coding
  • Design principles
  • Design patterns
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Leadership
  • Mentoring

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, paid parental leave, 401(K) plan with employer matching, and wellness benefits
  • Equity opportunities
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development

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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