New 
Principal Design Director
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jan 09, 2025 | |
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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, MSN, 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 Design Director with strong consumer product design experience to help us with the next wave of news experiences. For this role we're looking for a leader with both strong design skills and people management skills; you should have superb visualand interaction designskills, experience managing 12 - 20 individual contributors and managers, be comfortable with ambiguity involved in inventing v1 experiences. You will lead your team to concept, prototype 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. While our preferred location for this position is Redmond, WA, we are open to candidates based anywhere in the United States.
Responsibilities Lead a team of designers, creating clarity, generating energy and delivering results Drive product experience strategy, interaction design, creative direction and craftsmanship for a v1 product Drive cross-team collaborations between your team and other designers, researchers, product managers, product planners, and developers 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 | |