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Principal Product Designer

Microsoft 🇺🇸 United States of America

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

You will lead the production of visual designs and improve product UX through interaction models. Additionally, you will guide communication with cross-disciplinary teams and influence key stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
  • 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 your teams to improve product UX through the creation of interaction models while acting as a liaison between users and products

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
  • Equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)

Key Skills

  • Product design
  • User experience (UX) design
  • Interaction design
  • Visual design
  • Design thinking
  • Design research
  • Prototyping
  • User testing
  • Personas
  • User journey mapping
  • Design systems
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Communication
  • Project management
  • Time management
  • Organization skills
  • Adaptability
  • Critical thinking
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Empathy
  • Leadership
  • Mentoring
  • Storytelling

Benefits

  • Competitive base pay range
  • Benefits and other compensation
  • Opportunities for professional growth

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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