Principal Product Designer | Consumer Ads Job at Microsoft Corporation in Irving

OverviewWe are seeking a highly skilled and visionary Principal Product Designer to join our Consumer Ads team to drive high-impact creative experiences across our ecosystem. Between Copilot, Windows, Bing, Outlook, Microsoft Casual Gaming, and more, the opportunities are endless. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of user experience, visual design, branding, motion design, and storytelling across multiple platforms. The right candidate has a passion for creating engaging and rewarding user interactions, the ability to lead and inspire design, and independently drive creative ideas to implementation rapidly.As a visionary Principal Product Designer, you will elevate the craft by inspiring, defining, articulating, and delivering elegant and simplified solutions to our most complex challenges. Leading by example, you will collaborate with partners and executive stakeholders to drive exceptional design outcomes, aligning design solutions with business, technical, and user requirements. You will have the opportunity creatively put AI to the test, and reinvent monetization experiences like never before, for billions of users to not only value, but love.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! While our preferred location for this position is Redmond, WA, we are open to candidates based anywhere in the United States.
ResponsibilitiesLead Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitate effective collaboration with creative team members, product managers, developers, and executive stakeholders to define, iterate, and implement new and existing ad experiences, ensuring alignment with business, technical, and user requirements. Design Excellence: Understand the user, advertiser, and business needs to design quality, cohesive, revenue generating experiences that delight. Strategic Product Design and Prototyping: Drive the end-to-end experience design lifecycle from conception to delivery, including schedule alignment, dependency tracking, research backing, expansive prototyping initiatives, and ensuring designs meet user needs and company standards through detailed interaction models and user experience enhancements. Compelling Communication and Storytelling: Develop and communicate persuasive product stories to diverse audiences, including senior leadership and key stakeholders, to inspire excitement and garner support. Influence product strategy and design decisions through effective storytelling and presentation of design concepts. Build Design Culture: Contribute to broader Microsoft AI team culture (e.g., mentorship, onboarding, team morale, employee resources groups/clubs) and lead by example for all designers.Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced, design-driven environment.