Overview
If you're intrigued technology, have a knack for creative ideas, and lead with a growth mindset, we want to hear from you.
The Microsoft AI Design & Research team is a creative community of designers and researchers on a mission to create and deliver holistic customer experiences while imagining the future of web and Windows experiences. Between Windows, Edge, Bing, and apps, we're creating end to end web experiences from shopping, to search, to ads, news, sports, and gaming. Our diverse team works collaboratively to create products and ideas that empower us to move fast to build seamless and delightful experiences for billions of customers worldwide. Join us!
We are seeking a Principal Product Designer with consumer product design experience to help us with the next wave of web experiences. For this role we're looking for a leader with exceeding design skills and strategic thinking ability; you should have superb visual and interaction design skills and be comfortable with ambiguity involved in inventing v1 experiences. You will influence teams with concepts, prototypes, and evangelize new customer experiences as well as help evolve our design system, working across teams to bring design coherence to our framework and create beautiful, inclusive, and accessible experiences that customers love.
For this particular position, "shopping" can be listed as a resume skill! We're looking for a talented designer to help consumers save time and money in their shopping journeys everywhere - on Bing, on the Edge browser, on Windows, with Copilot, on our mobile apps and beyond. You can read more about our Shopping features here: https://www.bing.com/shop/welcome
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
- Drive product experience strategy, interaction design, creative direction, and craftsmanship for a v1 product
- Drive cross-team collaborations among all disciplines from early product stages to implementation
- Understand the behaviors, motivations, and needs of our customers to develop relevant and impactful experiences
- Contribute to strategic product planning via experience roadmaps
- Propose creative solutions to complex user experience journeys, drawing on your ability to map end-to-end experiences
- Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to improve our processes, products, and culture, influencing design direction and research methodologies
- Sets, drives, and executes design's direction for a product or set of products, influencing partners and stakeholders based on priorities that balance the customer needs and business impact
- Lead design on highly visible products or set of design initiatives with notable risk and complexity
- Drives cross-organization experience to impact broader organizational at scale or enable the team to scale
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, 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, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design
- OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
- Proficient visual design skills with relevant portfolio examples
- Clear communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas
- Experience designing in Figma
- An online design portfolio demonstrating related experiences
Product Design IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 2, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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