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Posted date: Feb 09, 2026
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Category: Product Design
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewWe’re looking for a Principal Product Designer to lead the design vision for next-generation Calendar + Copilot experiences. You’ll craft solutions that help users manage and automate key workflows that organize their time, schedule events, and collaborate with others into a seamless Calendar experience. Your work will span from refining today’s time management interfaces to imagining bold, AI-powered futures that make users more empowered and productive at work. You’ll design for scale and elegance: end-to-end workflows that feel intuitive, personalized, and connected across Microsoft 365. Think beyond screens: explore how AI agents, predicative workflows, and conversational interfaces can transform how people plan, prioritize, and collaborate daily. From enabling dynamic “next best actions” to creating experiences that feel like a personalized executive assistant, your designs will help bring delight to our customers, making technology feel like a thought partner, not a tool.
Experiences 365 (X3) is building the next generation of AI-powered productivity experiences—designed around real customer needs and grounded in trust. Our Design, Research & Content team is a vibrant creative community passionate about shaping how people work in the AI era.
We bring together deep customer insight, strong craft, and thoughtful collaboration to deliver experiences that are meaningful, polished, and impactful at global scale. As part of a large, diverse organization, you’ll work within close-knit teams that value partnership, curiosity, and high standards—supported by the reach, resources, and influence of a robust design community.
We believe great experiences are built through research, evidence, and iteration, and we ship often—so your work will reach customers quickly and make a tangible difference. What we build, and how we build it, matters. The products we create will help define productivity in the AI era, and earning user trust is central to everything we do.
Our Core Values:
Quality. We deliver category-defining experiences that are intuitive, reliable, and beautifully coherent. Craft matters, and excellence is the bar.Simplicity. We don’t overcomplicate. We focus on what matters most and design with clarity, restraint, and purpose.Safety & Trust. Security, privacy, and trust are non-negotiable. We hold ourselves to the highest standards to earn and keep customer confidence.Learning & Judgment. We pay close attention to signals, data, and real-world outcomes—and we adapt when they point us in a better direction. We value long-term impact over short-term metrics.Kindness. We show up with empathy and respect for one another. We support growth, learn from mistakes, and believe great work comes from healthy, inclusive teams. Our Design Principles:
Create Magical MomentsGuide the JourneyAlways be Earning TrustSweat the DetailsBe in Service to Customers This is a chance to shape a system that is not just functional but inspiring, where creativity meets data, and design becomes the engine for trust, productivity, and growth.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Own and evolve the design vision for Microsoft Calendar Copilot experiences, with a focus on Conversational User Experiences and Autonomous Agents.Design endtoend workflows that make time management feel simple—across desktop, web, and mobile surfaces.Explore how Copilot, agents, prediction, and conversational UX can act as a thought partner for users to collaborate and work with.Lead ambiguous, highimpact problem spaces—balancing longterm vision with nearterm product delivery.Set a high bar for craft, quality, and usability, ensuring our products feels polished, coherent, and deeply thoughtful.Partner closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data science to turn insights into shipped experiences.Use research and data to guide decisions, validate direction, and coursecorrect when needed—optimizing for longterm user value, not vanity metrics.Influence and mentor designers across X3, helping raise the quality and consistency of design work across the system.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Master's Degree in Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service designOR Bachelor's Degree in Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems). Preferred Qualifications:
2+ years of experience with vibe-coding or prototypingA portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design leadership—from vision and systems thinking through launch—showcasing polished execution and product impact.Proven experience setting and driving design direction for complex, high-scale products used daily by millions of people.Exceptional design craft, with strong attention to interaction details, motion, composition, and clarity across workflows.Comfort operating in ambiguity, breaking down large problem spaces, and shaping crisp, durable solutions.Experience partnering deeply with research, data, product, and engineering to inform direction, validate decisions, and measure outcomes.You’ve led or shaped agentic or AI-powered experiences that go beyond suggestions—defining how intelligent systems plan, decide, and act over time, while earning user trust through clarity, predictability, and control. #X3, #T+P
Product Design IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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