Principal Product Designer

Microsoft Frontier Company is seeking a Principal Product Designer to work within Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) teams, focused on creating AI-driven, human-first digital experiences. In this role, you’ll own the end-to-end design lifecycle, moving from research through to deployed experiences, while partnering closely with data scientists, engineers, and program managers.

What you’ll do

• Conceptualize end-to-end solutions and also drive detailed designs for experiences, using design techniques to illustrate concepts and foster new ideas.
• Design and conduct qualitative and quantitative research to understand customer needs, uncover pain points, and evaluate experiences.
• Create impactful artifacts, including visually rich visualizations of findings and insights that bring clarity to the areas being studied.
• Represent the Design and Design Research disciplines within technically oriented, multidisciplinary teams.
• Collaborate to shape solutions through evidence-based research, using insights to support holistic concepts.
• Deliver detailed user experience designs and definitions, using design techniques to ensure solutions uphold Microsoft’s responsible AI principles.
• Embody Microsoft’s culture and values.

What you bring

• A Master’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or a related field and 6+ years of experience working in product or service design.
• Alternatively, a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and 8+ years of experience working in product or service design.
• Alternatively, equivalent experience (for example, demonstrated product or service design experience or using design thinking to solve problems).
• 6+ years of experience shipping products, services, or games and delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.
• Strong human-centered AI design expertise that combines responsible AI principles, research rigor, and advanced design and prototyping skills to translate insights into actionable product decisions through cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Comfort with travel and willingness to travel up to 25%.

Additional education and experience options (preferred)

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or a related field and 15+ years of experience in product or service design.
• Alternatively, a Master’s Degree in one of the listed fields and 12+ years of experience in product or service design.
• Alternatively, equivalent experience (for example, demonstrated product or service design experience or using design thinking to solve problems).

Location: United States (onsite)
Compensation: USD 142,800 - 304,200 per year