Principal Product Designer

$137,600 - $294,000/Yr

Microsoft - Redmond, WA

Full-time - Senior

Redmond, WA

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Principal Product Designer will play a crucial role in guiding AI initiatives within Microsoft 365 and Copilot, working within the X3 Strategy and Ops team. This position involves collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to develop user experience perspectives on emerging challenges at the intersection of business, experience, and technology. The designer will lead efforts in hypothesizing, experimenting, and prototyping to inform product development and enhance customer workflows, while utilizing familiar design tools such as Figma.

Responsibilities

• Lead open communication with cross-disciplinary and cross-product teams to build horizontal impact across M365 products.
• Work with the Design Director to lead exploration into opportunity spaces in collaboration with other designers and peers in other disciplines.
• Envision near-future user flows with a strong point of view based on new and existing research, peer and executive feedback, and design expertise.
• Lead by example within the design team as a strong individual contributor.
• Use design to ask questions, solve problems, and provoke discussion that informs executive decision making.
• Create wireframes, flows, high fidelity mockups, and prototypes of new experiences across multiple Microsoft products.
• Create visual design solutions loosely based on the design system or original solutions based on new emerging experiences.

Requirements

• 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 OR 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 OR equivalent experience.
• Strong verbal and visual communication skills.
• Experience with common UI design tools.

Nice-to-haves

• Interest in LLMs, generative AI, and the future of work.
• Experience forming visions around new areas of opportunity and building support for design directions.
• Broad UX/UI design knowledge/experience, with specialization in one or more of the following areas: Visual Design, Prototyping, Motion design for interaction, AI-specific UX/UI design, Design for mobile, and Research-based design.
• Ability to take action and begin work when faced with a loosely defined problem.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities