Microsoft AI Monetization is seeking a Principal Design Director to lead their Design, Research & Content team in creating the next generation of AI-powered products for advertisers, publishers, sellers, and consumers, focusing on the future of advertising and monetization in the AI era.
Requirements
- solid consumer and enterprise product design experience
- solid design skills, business skills and people management skills
- superb visual and interaction design skills
- Experience leading technical design teams and distilling complexities to create simple and beautiful design solutions
- Demonstrated sense of Interaction Design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design
- Solid Visual Design skills
- Experience designing in Figma
Responsibilities
- Lead your team to concept, prototype and evangelize new customer experiences
- help evolve our design system
- working across teams to bring design coherence to our framework
- create beautiful, inclusive, and accessible experiences that customers love
- craft high quality design work at a fast pace within our design principles
- Drive product experience strategy, interaction design, creative direction and craftsmanship for a v1 product
- Propose creative solutions to complex user experience journeys, drawing on your ability to map end-to-end experiences
Other
- experience managing 15-20 individual contributors and managers
- be comfortable with ambiguity involved in inventing v1 experiences
- Excellent communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas
- Resume must include a link to design portfolio
- Lead a team of designers, creating clarity, generating energy and delivering results
