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Principal Product Designer

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

Hybrid $139,900 - $304,200 Full-time Principal

The Principal Product Designer will lead the design vision and end-to-end development of AI-powered monetization products for publishers and merchants. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, user-centric experiences while driving innovation through experimentation and data-driven insights.

Responsibilities

  • Ship world-class AI-powered experiences that delight consumers with an emphasis on craft, quality, trust, and positive user and societal impact
  • Stay aware of new technological innovations within AI and bring these new innovations into our products and team's design practices
  • Own the user experience for a product area/domain and be responsible for understanding user needs and behaviors to ensure we have defined the right product requirements and are building the right product

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
  • Experience prompting LLMs, working with generative AI, and understanding how to meaningfully integrate AI into products to help customers accomplish their goals
  • Proven track record of setting design vision for innovative products that require bold thinking and risk taking

Benefits

  • Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year
  • Additional benefits and compensation

Key Skills

Product design Visual design Prototyping UI design User experience AI Interaction design User research Design thinking Cross-functional collaboration Communication Problem-solving Leadership Vibe coding

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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