Principal Product Designer (Microsoft Teams)

We're looking for a Principal Product Designer to help us craft the future of meetings in Teams working across calling, devices, and live events. You'll have the opportunity to shape the design of Microsoft Teams, a chat-based collaboration app that is changing how people work together. We value creativity, sharing ideas openly, and having fun while we work. Most of all, we’re motivated by the desire to create best-in-class product experiences people love.

You’re a tastemaker who elevates the craft while you inspire, define, articulate, and deliver elegant and simplified solutions to our most complex problems. Leading by example is a critical skill for this role so we’re looking for someone who is not only an exceptional designer but someone who can work across partners and executive stakeholders. We’re looking for someone who can scale from big picture thinking to detailed design and love doing both. You will be responsible for facilitating the delivery of world-class designs from conception through completion by deeply collaborating with engineering, product management, and other design teams. You will need to be able to communicate your ideas using a wide variety of methods—from telling a compelling story, to providing sketches, to creating fully rendered designs.

The world has shifted in the last two years and companies are embracing the hybrid workplace and rolling out new ways for their employees to work together both physically and virtually.

Responsibilities

• Help create new experiences allowing workers across all industries to collaborate and achieve together.
• Deliver world-class product designs from ideation to execution.
• Help drive the long-term strategy and vision for Teams meetings while working across calling, devices, and live events product space that sets us apart from our competition and delivers value to our customers.
• Identify new revenue opportunities with our partners.
• Create a vision for our products based on broad industry insights. Gather feedback from leadership about proposed designs, collaborate with executives to promote future design direction, and gain buy-in for current and proposed product designs while ensuring alignment with strategic interests.
• Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business and customer goals.
• Solve complex design problems in simple and intuitive ways that blend brand personality, visuals, motion, and sound to create delightful experiences.
• Work in partnership with Marketing to tell compelling product stories at key events and marketing moments.
• Work with our device ecosystem partners to unify hardware and software experiences.
• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Create an environment of collaboration, mentorship, and opportunity for everyone.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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

• Awareness of trends in tech, communications, and collaboration.
• Experience across a range of devices and input modalities.
• History of impacting shipping products with your work.
• Creative and analytical skills.
• Great storyteller that can inspire the team!
• Outstanding presentation skills to share vision with fellow designers, developers, and product management.
• Cross-group collaboration, persuasion, and presentation skills.
• Self-motivated and driven to get the details right.
• Effective collaboration with all disciplines.
• Growth mindset and eagerness to learn.

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.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.