Principal Product Designer

If you’re passionate about 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 browsing. 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 for the Edge Browser Design team. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background consumer product design at scale, a deep understanding of customers and openness and curiosity about the future of the web + AI. For this role we’re looking for a leader with both strong design skills and strategic thinking; you should have superb visual and interaction design skills and be comfortable with ambiguity involved in inventing totally new experiences. You will influence teams with concepts, prototypes, and evangelize new customer experiences to create beautiful, inclusive, and accessible experiences that customers love. 

While our preferred location for this position is Redmond, WA, we are open to candidates based anywhere in the United States.

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 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 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