Principal Design Manager

at  Microsoft

ABOUT YOU:

You’ve worked on fast paced projects; you love the startup vibe and you’re looking for a new adventure. You’re a tireless advocate for the customer—enthusiastic about building and iterating on product solutions to explore, iterate and discover what works best, applying your knowledge to create incredible software products.
You understand how to bring a team together to solve difficult product and customer problems, fixing what’s not quite right and smoothing the customer’s journey through the product and have recent examples that showcase this experience.
You’re fluent in communicating with product managers and developers as well as influencing team members to simplify, integrate, and leverage cross initiatives that accelerate your ability to deliver value to customers at speed. And you’re comfortable influencing others around you to land solutions that help make innovative apps that customers will love.
If this matches your profile, we are looking for you to lead and grow our Design team for the Business Applications Platform.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction AND extensive experience working in product design and research
• Extensive people management experience
• A record of leading projects, teams, and products end-2-end with multidisciplinary partners.
• Portfolio that proves solid design skills and a bias towards forward-thinking solutions. A portfolio review is required.

A plus:

• Experience in a fast paced, startup style environment.
• An understanding of AI, LLMs (Large Language Models) and GPTs (generative pre-trained transformers)

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Summary
Do you want to play a key role in building multi-billion-dollar revenue products for Microsoft? Are you passionate about building great products that drive digital transformation of businesses all around the world? Do you want to work with some of the best designers, product managers and engineers in the world? How about working with cutting edge technologies like Azure cloud, AI and Copilot?
About Us
Dynamics 365 Finance is one of the fastest growing applications in the Dynamics portfolio – the fastest growing SaaS Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) portfolio in the world. We specialize in best-in-class solutions enabling businesses to run their end-to-end financial operations for the Dynamics 365 line of ERP software. We aim to enable managers and finance professionals to effectively run their business using Dynamics 365 products. We have a mission to be the most innovative and trusted solution on the market incorporating the latest in artificial intelligence, automation and integrated analytics leveraging the breadth of Microsoft Azure, Office, Teams, Dynamics and the Power Platform to continually meet the growing needs of businesses in a fast-moving environment.
As the Financial planning and extended planning area Lead you will be working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary design team, PM and Engineering, to accelerate our ability to deliver value to our customers at speed. You will be creating clarity in a complex organizational environment, generating energy through a bias towards action, and delivering results against all aspects of the customers experience by elevating research-driven insights and experience excellence to division leadership, influencing product direction and decision-making. This opportunity will allow you to develop deep business acumen and hone your skills to rapidly innovate, as you help define the next generation of business applications. This role is flexible in that you will be able to partner with your Manager to define the way that you’d like to work, whether that is in the office or from home.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with a multidisciplinary and cross-product team to deliver beautiful end-to-end user experiences that drive business value
• Actively work with product partners to prioritize workstreams to balance the team’s ability to deliver value quickly, while balancing long term vision and strategy
• Actively and responsibly champion customers, using direct feedback, user research, industry knowledge, and quantitative metrics to enhance and optimize user experiences.
• Through active coaching, you will model empathy and humility resulting in a highly engaged organization and a culture of management excellence across your team as evidenced by your employee collective feedback
• You will be comfortable with ambiguity and deal with complex situations by creating clarity for your direct reports, your PM and Engineering counterparts and colleagues across the Design and Research Studio.
• Collaboration with senior leadership to formulate, refine and introduce plans that enable the team to drive generative AI investments.
• As a leader you will build organizational capability and steward talent management resulting in a diverse and inclusive team as measured by standard organizational health performance indicators.