OverviewIf 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 experiences. Between Copilot, 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 extensive consumer product design experience to help us with the next wave of web experiences. For this role we're looking for a leader with both strong design skills and strategic thinking; you should have superb visualand interaction designskills 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 evolveour design system, working across teams to bring design coherence to our framework andcreate beautiful, inclusive,and accessible experiences that customers love. The Team MSN is part of Microsoft AI, dedicated to creating personalized, intelligent, and engaging content experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem, including Windows, Edge browser, Bing.com, mobile apps, and Copilot. Our mission is to empower customers by keeping them informed, entertained, and inspired, while enabling the discovery of high-quality, trusted content and features that enhance their online journeys. Through MSN, Microsoft aims to deliver a suite of premium content services such as News, Sports, Finance, Weather, Shopping, etc. These offerings are complemented by world-class Search, AI, and other Microsoft services, ensuring an integrated and impactful experience for our users. 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-organizationexperience to impact broader organizationalat scale or enable the team to scale