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Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.
Within Azure Data, the business intelligence team builds and maintains Power BI which is the undisputed leader in BI tool in the industry today and serves as the bridge between data professionals & Office users. Power BI’s core value proposition is to enable end users to get answers & insights from their data through data visualization.
The Power BI Reporting team is hiring a Principal Design Manager with a large product scope. The team’s scope covers core experiences including data ingestion, modeling, report creation and editing, report consumption, and data exploration. Depending on the project, the personas we primarily cater to are business users (people who read reports), data analysts (people who make the reports), and BI engineers/architects (people who create complex data models used to build the reports). In this dynamic space, you’ll provide design leadership across low-tech end-user experiences to highly complex developer experiences, providing a range of opportunities for a curious and creative problem solver. It also involves stitching together Power BI experiences into the wider Fabric ecosystem and creating clear swim lanes for each job to be done. Broadly, you’ll oversee projects that delight Power BI users and aim to reduce the time needed to get valuable insights from their data with a focus on the UX of conversational Generative AI experiences, incorporating Large Language Models into features, designing and testing meta prompts, in addition to non-AI related UX projects that span the Power BI user journey. The role’s broad scope will give you ample room to apply your design thinking—both on projects that have immediate impact on the business as well as explorations that shape our long-term strategy, vision and UX direction.
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REQUIRED/MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR Master’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience
• 3+ years people management experience.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

PREFERRED/ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 12+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR Master’s Degree in Industrial Design, 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).
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 6+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process
• Experience with designing UX for AI using LLMs
  Product Design M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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
  Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 5, 2024.
  

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• Create clarity and drive innovation on user experience vision, architecture and conceptsIdentify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas through deep customer understanding, Influences the product strategy and leadership’s strategies for distributing product design resources.
• Contribute to product vision, strategy, architecture, and planning, represent design direction to team members, management and key stakeholders .
• Collaborates with product owners, senior stakeholders, and development team members to shepherd end-to-end experiences from concept to ship for large and/or complex products ensuring the experience vision is driven by user needs.
• Leads communication with cross-disciplinary teams inside and across studio(s) through all stages of design and development.
• Operates as a Design System expert and reviewer of the adoption of the latest design systems
• Leads interactions with key stakeholders (team, Engineering, PM, User Research, etc.) to successfully align design solutions to business, technical, and user requirements. Leads interactions with Engineering to ensure implemented designs align to design specifications.
• Inspire and drive a high bar for user experience, fit-and-finish, and quality .
• Provides oversight and guidance to the team of product designers.
• Directs team to develop and enhance product user experiences via creation of input and output modalities and detailed designs for new and existing product features while serving as a steadfast advocate for our customers and end users.
• Foster a culture of excellence, inclusion, experimentation, learning, and customer focus
• Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring for every direct report
• Partners with every direct report on their career goals and aspirations and serves as a guide/coach in helping them thrive in their career.
• Embody our culture and values