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Principal Product Designer

Microsoft 🇺🇸 Village of Garden City, NY 11530, United States of America

Onsite $163,000 - $331,200 Full-time Senior

Define and design innovative product features leveraging generative AI to transform content discovery and engagement, while creating compelling visual designs and interaction patterns for AI-powered media experiences. Drive design strategy for consumer media products, balancing user needs and business goals, and mentor the team on design quality.

Responsibilities

  • Define and design innovative product features that leverage generative AI
  • Create compelling visual designs and interaction patterns
  • Develop and communicate product vision through storytelling, high-fidelity prototypes, and strategic presentations
  • Drive design strategy for consumer-facing media products
  • Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, research, and CTO
  • Mentor and elevate design quality across the team

Requirements

  • Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field
  • 7+ 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

Key Skills

Product design Consumer product design Visual design Storytelling Interaction design User experience design Accessibility design Inclusive design Communication Presentation Prototyping Figma Design systems Cross-functional collaboration

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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