Principal Design Manager

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  • Remote  
    California, United States
    perm, remote  
  • Company
    Microsoft  
    Start date
    ASAP  
    Duration
    n/a  
    Wage
    $158,500 to 304,200 per annum  
  • Closing date
    11 July 2023  
    Posted on
    11 May 2023  

If you’re passionate about design and technology, have a knack for creative ideas, and lead with a growth mindset, we want to hear from you.

The Web Experience Collective (WXC) is a creative community of designers and researchers on a mission to create and deliver holistic customer experiences while imagining the future of the post-search era. Across the new Bing Chat, Bing Search, Windows, apps, and the Edge browser, we’re creating end-to-end experiences from content, news, sports, gaming, shopping, search, and ads. 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 Design Manager with effective AI product design experience to help us with the next wave of AI-powered news and web experiences. This role will manage design and research for the content verticals and growth and retention on AI news experiences. We’re looking for a leader with both demonstrated design skills and people management skills; you should have superb visual and interaction design skills, experience managing 5-8 individual contributors, be comfortable with ambiguity involved in inventing v1 experiences.

You will lead your team to concept, prototype, and evangelize new customer experiences powered with AI, 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.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive team to design and prototype for generative AI experiences, rapid prototyping, and designing for first-to-market experiences
  • Lead experience strategy, interaction design, creative direction, and craftsmanship for generative AI products and product features
  • Design and prototype gen AI experiences that connect with existing products and services
  • Manage a multidisciplinary team
  • Drive cross-team collaborations among your team and other designers, researchers, program managers, product planners, and engineers from early product stages to implementation
  • Understand the behaviors, motivations, and needs of our customers to develop relevant and impactful experiences to drive growth and engagement
  • 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

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 9+ years experience working in product or service design
    • OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 7+ years experience working in product or service design
    • OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).
  • 5+ years people management experience.
  • Resume must include a link to design portfolio

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated sense of interaction design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design
  • Demonstrated experience designing and prototyping for AI and generative experiences
  • Demonstrated visual design skills
  • Excellent communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas
  • Experience designing in Figma

Product Design M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 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 $202,800 - $304,200 per year.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Benefits and Perks:

  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Savings and investments
  • Giving programs
  • Educational resources
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Opportunities to network and connect
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Generous time away

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