Microsoft Principal Product Designer

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Posted date: Mar 06, 2025

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Category: Design & Creative

Location: Redmond, WA

Estimated salary: $215,800
Range: $137,600 - $294,000

Employment type: Full-Time

Travel amount: 25.0%

Work location type: Up to 100% work from home

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the messaging and real-time analytics team provides comprehensive solutions and a robust platform that enables users to ingest high granularity signals (real-time & observability) and complex data, converting those into a competitive advantage in real-time for both end users and modern applications.  

As a Principal Product Designer on the Real-Time Intelligence team, you’ll shape high-impact, high-quality data tools that educate, empower, and delight data professionals and consumers. You’ll accelerate the product vision through design leadership, collaboration, and an iterative release process. Your work will influence Microsoft Fabric, shaping experiences for Fabric Copilot, Real-Time Dashboard, Eventhouse, Eventstream, and Graph.

We’re looking for a hands-on design leader who thrives on solving complex challenges—from information architecture to interaction design to high-fidelity execution. If you think conceptually and strategically about design, enjoy collaboration, and want to make a lasting impact, we’d love to hear from you. Come join us!

Ship world-class applications that delight technical roles with an emphasis on AI, craft, quality, trust, and positive user and societal impact.Own a product area, identify new opportunities and generate innovative through deep customer understanding, ensuring the experience vision is driven by user needs and manage lunches and itrations.Find your own path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.Cross-functional communication and dependency management, scoping and scheduling, and seeing through implementation by collaborating with engineering through the finish line.Thrive in a complex, design-driven, product development cycle. Measure success with data and research.Embody our culture and values



Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, 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, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design

o OR equivalent experience.

6+ years of experience using Figma to contribute to design systems and prototyping.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 10+ years experience working in product design in scale. Proficient use of one or more of the following tools to tackle daily tasks: AI tools, development, and analytics tools like Visual Studio, Excel, and Power BI or other data visualization and analytical tools.A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate at least 4 years of experience designing world class products from vision through launch, for technical roles.

Ability to break large bodies of work into a phased execution plan, and lead a cross-functional team from idea to polished implementation.Demonstrate high craft in design work; must value craft and translate vision into well-polished design prototypes.Experience prompting LLMs or working with generative AI.

Product Design IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 13, 2025.

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, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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