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Principal Product Design Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 30, 2025 | |
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OverviewWe are a team of UX professionals spanning Product Design, UX Research, Content Design, Technical Writers and UX Engineering. Together with our PM and Engineering partners, we create product experiences that are trusted, human-centered, and easy to use-enabling our users to manage, protect, and secure their digital environments with peace of mind. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Our team consists of talented and diverse individuals with interesting backgrounds and passions. It's an environment where creativity and innovation thrive, teamwork is highly valued and where you can solve hard problems through collaboration with a wide range of peers and partners. We are seeking an experienced and visionary Principal Product Design Manager to lead our Security AI design team. In this pivotal role, you will drive the design strategy and execution for cutting-edge AI-powered security solutions, ensuring our products deliver seamless, human-centered experiences that empower users to protect and manage their digital environments with confidence. You will lead and mentor a talented team of designers, fostering a collaborative and innovative culture. As a key partner to engineering, product management, and research, you will champion design excellence from ideation through launch, shaping the future of Security AI at Microsoft. Your ability to set a compelling vision, guide cross-functional teams, and deliver impactful, scalable design solutions will be essential to our mission of making the world safer through technology. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in enterprise product design, a deep understanding of AI technologies and their application in security, and a proven track record of building and leading high-performing design teams. You thrive in complex environments, are passionate about driving innovation, and are adept at influencing strategy at all levels of the organization.
ResponsibilitiesDeliver world-class design solutions from initial concept through finished product.Provide insightful perspectives and ideas that will help shape the direction of company-wide investments in the security space. Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business, user goals, and ecosystem considerations. Incorporate system and framework thinking and pattern-matching into solutions to reinforce integrity of design system and product cohesion.Contribute to the visual systems and visual language for a product. Work closely and constructively with product management, content designers, user researchers, engineers and other designers to iterate and deliver design artifacts and solutions. Create wireframes, journey maps, prototypes and detailed mockups to iterate on product scenarios. Seek out and incorporate the feedback of the design team to refine your designs and align to larger product patterns. Clearly communicate your work to peers and leadership. Work alongside leadership team members to create compelling narratives for a specific product or feature and develop product architectures and systems. Contribute to evaluating and prioritizing work. Ship world-class applications that delight technical roles with an emphasis on AI, craft, quality, trust, and positive user and societal impact. Own multiple product areas, identify new opportunities and generate innovative through deep customer understanding, ensuring the experience vision is driven by user needs and manage launches and iterations. Find your own path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively. Cross-functional and cross-divisional 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 | |