Principal Product Manager – Ads Search Targeting
Principal Product Manager – Ads Search Targeting
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We are hiring for a Principal Product Manager – Ads Search Targeting with a proven track record of building AI-driven, scalable advertising products that deliver measurable ROI for advertisers while ensuring the right level of targeting and controls to meet advertiser needs. In this role, you will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Microsoft Advertising’s Search Targeting products. You will partner closely with Data Science, Engineering, UX, Product Marketing, Legal, and Finance to design solutions that enable advertisers to reach the right audiences in an evolving automation-first landscape.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
- Product Leadership: Develop and communicate the strategy and roadmap for search targeting and controls across Microsoft’s ad ecosystem.
- Customer Advocacy: Represent the product to customers, deeply understand their needs, and champion those needs internally.
- Execution & Decision-Making: Navigate ambiguity, make tough prioritization decisions, and drive alignment across engineering, design, and business stakeholders.
- Communication & Collaboration: Partner effectively with Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Legal, and other cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive product outcomes.
- Data & AI Innovation: Collaborate with Data Science and ML teams to leverage insights and models that power precision targeting and safeguard brand trust at scale.
- Go-to-Market Leadership: Lead go-to-market efforts with marketing and sales, ensuring product launches drive adoption, transparency, and measurable advertiser impact.
- Industry Leadership: Establish Microsoft as a leader in responsible advertising by shaping internal practices and influencing industry standards.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years experience developing digital advertising products.
- Experience in building large scale solutions.
- Experience with A/B testing.
- Experience with digital advertising and search targeting.
Product Management IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 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 $188,000 – $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Microsoft AI Monetization is a customer-first organization dedicated to building the next generation of AI-powered products that serve our customers’ business goals. Our Design, Research & Content team is a creative community on a mission to create and deliver holistic experiences for Advertisers, Publishers, Sellers and Consumers. By leveraging our deep understanding of the user and our business acumen, we are driving the future of advertising and monetization in the era of AI. Our diverse team works collaboratively to develop products and ideas which impact billions of customers worldwide.
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- Simplicity. We don’t overcomplicate. Less is more, always.
- Safety & Security. The highest standards of security, safety and responsibility are non-negotiable across all our business areas.
- Evaluation. We pay close attention to signals and aren’t afraid to change course when data and our experience tells us to. We are also careful with our metrics, focusing on delivering long-term sustainable value (rather than short-term KPIs).
- Kindness. Kindness is at the heart of our org and how we conduct ourselves. We care for, and support and respect one another, beginning again and learning every day.
We are looking for Senior Product Designers to join our Advertiser team, which is focused on designing experiences for marketers in this new AI era. You will work on everything from traditional advertising experiences, to future state explorations that leverage AI technology to redefine the societal contract of humans and technology, as well as the underlying business models for monetization. Your work will be at the heart of change within the advertising industry.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
- Ship world-class AI-powered experiences that delight advertisers, publishers, sellers and consumers with an emphasis on craft, quality, trust, and positive user and societal impact
- Own a product area and be responsible for understanding user needs and behaviors, defining product requirements, managing end-to-end product development, launches and iterations.
- Cross-functional communication and dependency management, scoping and scheduling, and seeing through implementation by collaborating with engineering through the finish line.
- Find your own path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.
- Set the bar for excellence and quality and hold the team accountable to that standard
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.
- Partner with Product Managers, define goals and performance indicators, set up and oversee experiments, measure success with data and research.
- Collaborate effectively and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, sales, and other designers, to build exceptional consumer-grade applications.
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- OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
- A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate experience designing world class consumer products from vision through launch.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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 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 equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
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- Demonstrate high craft in design work; must value craft and translate vision into well-polished design prototypes.
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- Experience with diving into research and leveraging both qualitative and quantitative signals for design impact.
- Experience prompting LLMs, working with generative AI, or an intense desire to learn.
- Ability to own your work in a fast-paced. start-up like environment, manage multiple priorities, and adapt to ever-changing requirements and deadlines.
- Proven ability to collaborate and contribute to a positive, inclusive work environment, fostering knowledge sharing and growth within the team.
#MicrosoftAI
Product Design IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 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 $158,400 – $258,000 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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- Kindness. Kindness is at the heart of our org and how we conduct ourselves. We care for, and support and respect one another, beginning again and learning every day.
We are looking for Senior Product Designers to join our Advertiser team, which is focused on designing experiences for marketers in this new AI era. You will work on everything from traditional advertising experiences, to future state explorations that leverage AI technology to redefine the societal contract of humans and technology, as well as the underlying business models for monetization. Your work will be at the heart of change within the advertising industry.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
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- Find your own path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.
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Product Design IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 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 $158,400 – $258,000 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Product Management IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 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 $188,000 – $304,200 per year.
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https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Are you ready to revolutionize publisher monetization with the unparalleled power of AI? Join us as we transform the daily grind of digital advertising into a seamless flow of efficiency and innovation. You’ll be central to a team dedicated to empowering publishers to unlock new levels of operational excellence and revenue growth, leveraging Microsoft Monetize cutting-edge AI solutions. Our mission: to anticipate and meet the ever-evolving needs of publishers, streamlining their workflows, surfacing actionable insights that maximize their potential, and unlock demand opportunities in an increasingly complex market. As a Principal Product Manager – AI Monetization, you will be responsible for the product management strategy for Microsoft Monetize, focusing on developing and evolving AI-powered solutions that address publishers’ most pressing challenges. You’ll shape the next generation of productivity tools, integrating advanced machine learning and conversational AI to help publishers gain deeper insights, resolve issues proactively, and optimize their monetization strategies. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
- Drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Microsoft Monetize AI-powered features, focusing on publisher productivity and demand optimization.
- Partner with engineering, design, and business teams to define, build, and launch new AI tools for workflow optimization, performance and targeting insights, troubleshooting automation, and demand generation.
- Lead usability reviews and collect publisher feedback to ensure seamless integration of AI features and continual improvement of user experience.
- Develop and execute go-to-market and customer adoption plans, including presentations at industry events and creation of support resources for publisher success.
- Monitor performance metrics, analyze usage data, and form hypotheses to guide product enhancements and identify new opportunities for AI-driven monetization.
- Manage customer communities, build trust with key publishers, and act as an advocate for their needs within Microsoft.
- Identify features for deprecation, oversee change management, and ensure smooth transitions across the platform ecosystem.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years experience working with advertiser, publisher or marketplace ad technology
- 5+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or initiative to market (e.g., design, addressing market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework) for advertisers or publishers.
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Product Management IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 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 $188,000 – $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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- OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team.
- 7+ years experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.
- Experience using LLMs, agentic frameworks, RAG, vector databases to build complex production systems.
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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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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- Build robust retrieval pipelines (RAG + vector stores) for precise, grounded answers across advertiser and campaign domains.
- Advance prompt/program design (planning, decomposition, self‑reflection, evaluation) to boost accuracy, latency, and cost efficiency.
- Ship real features with engineering partners: telemetry, online evaluations/A‑B tests, guardrails, red‑teaming, and quality bars.
- Mentor and multiply: guide applied scientists and engineers, set best practices, and raise the bar for scientific rigor.
- Measure impact: define success metrics, instrument experiments, and iterate quickly based on data and customer feedback.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR Master’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team.
- 7+ years experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.
- Experience using LLMs, agentic frameworks, RAG, vector databases to build complex production systems.
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Applied Sciences IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 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 $188,000 – $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Microsoft AI Monetization is a customer-first organization dedicated to building the next generation of AI-powered products that serve our customers’ business goals. Our Design, Research & Content team is a creative community on a mission to create and deliver holistic experiences for Advertisers, Publishers, Sellers and Consumers. By leveraging our deep understanding of the user and our business acumen, we are driving the future of advertising and monetization in the era of AI. Our diverse team works collaboratively to develop products and ideas which impact billions of customers worldwide.
We’re a friendly, diverse and fast-moving creative team, supporting one another to do the best work of our lives. We are always looking to break new ground with an unshakeable dedication to the user. We are proud of what we build, and how we build it. We prioritize quality, meaningful innovation and polish, and always root our decisions in research and evidence. We ship regularly, so your work will have real and immediate impact.
We are looking for a Principal Product Designer to join our Monetization Design Systems team, which is focused on supporting the current and future monetization experiences for our Microsoft Copilot, Inventory, Advertiser, Platform, and Publisher teams. Your work will be at the heart of change within the advertising industry.
Our core values guide our work:
- Quality. We only deliver category-defining products that delight with their ease of use, guaranteed reliability, and beautiful, coherent design.
- Simplicity. We don’t overcomplicate. Less is more, always.
- Safety & Security. The highest standards of security, safety and responsibility are non-negotiable across all our business areas.
- Evaluation. We pay close attention to signals and aren’t afraid to change course when data and our experience tells us to. We are also careful with our metrics, focusing on delivering long-term sustainable value (rather than short-term KPIs).
- Kindness. Kindness is at the heart of our org and how we conduct ourselves. We care for, and support and respect one another, beginning again and learning every day.
As a Principal Product Designer – Design Systems, you will bring the technical skills, leadership and passion that will help us to build the next wave of monetization-centered capabilities for our consumers. You can drive the end-to-end process of setting a design vision and create and maintain a cohesive design system by designing, implementing and managing reusable UI components, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring design consistency across all product areas. You will advocate for user-centric solutions and maintain high standards for design quality, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing operations as needed.
You have an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness, in addition to being a highly effective communicator. You are flexible and adaptable, with the ability to move quickly to new methodologies, processes, technologies, and products. The right candidate takes the initiative and enjoys building world-class design experiences for consumer and enterprise products in a fast-paced environment. This is a player/coach role; while you will set vision and direction, you are also a maker who can craft high quality designs at all stages of the design process.
Beyond the specifics of this role and this team, you will be, first and foremost, part of Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Are you ready to help us create the future?
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
- Create, implement, and maintain the design systems that will enable multiple design teams to ship world-class AI-powered experiences that delight consumers. Your work is an enabler of design craft, product quality, customer trust, and positive user and societal impact.
- Stay aware of new technological innovations within front-end development, design systems, and AI, bringing these new innovations into our products and team’s design practices.
- Collaborate with other product leaders to manage the end-to-end product development process and maintain accountability for user experience quality.
- Exhibit cross-functional communication and dependency management, scoping and scheduling.
- Find your own path to get things done despite roadblocks; ensure your work gets into the hands of users quickly and plan for continued iteration.
- Continually raise the bar for excellence and product quality; drive accountability for these standards.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.
- Partner with product teams to define goals and performance indicators – both business and customer success metrics. Set up and oversee experiments and evaluate effectiveness with data and research.
- Collaborate effectively and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, sales, and other designers.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 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 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 equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
- A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate experience designing world class consumer products from vision through launch.
- Extensive experience designing, implementing and maintaining robust Design Systems for a portfolio of products.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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 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 equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
- Prototype-level engineering experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript or other development languages such as Python.
- Proven track record of setting design vision for innovative products that require bold thinking and risk taking.
- Design Systems experience in a complex, large-scale environment.
- Demonstrate high craft in design work; be able to translate vision into well-polished design prototypes.
- Able to break large bodies of work into a phased execution plan and lead a cross-functional team from idea to polished implementation.
- Ability to advocate for design thinking, effectively influence design outcomes, discover problems and address them in a fast-paced and ambiguous environments.
- Experience identifying research needs, and then diving into the results, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative signals for design direction and refinement.
- Ability to own your work in a start-up environment. This includes managing multiple priorities and adapting to ever-changing requirements and deadlines.
- Proven ability to collaborate and contribute to a positive, inclusive work environment, fostering knowledge sharing and growth within the team.
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Product Design IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 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 $188,000 – $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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As a Principal Software Engineer on the Search & AI Platform team you will be collaborating in building the deep learning inferencing system using in-house and open-source technologies, and working on performance analysis, key components scaling up, distributed system debugging, and new feature/algorithm development. You will be hands-on in a massively scaled and distributed system, and a wide range of CPU and GPU hardware.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code
- Work collaboratively and communicate effectively with engineering, data scientists and product teams.
- Design, and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions in collaboration with teammates.
- Design services with a strong focus on high availability and scalability, robustness, and observability.
- Take end-to-end responsibility for the development, observability, quality, testing, and production readiness of the services you build.
- Design the system at scale for scenarios and canvases to be supported.
- Iterate the service capabilities as new requirements emerge with service rolled out.
- Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent 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 Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience on distributed systems (e.g., communication optimization, network architecture design, network programming).
- Experience on high performance computing (e.g., cache/memory optimization, high-performance GPU programming, compiler-based optimization, fine-grained parallel library and runtime) or distributed systems (e.g., communication optimization, network architecture design, network programming).
- Experience on deep learning model and large language model (LLM) serving. Experience on performance analysis and optimization for both CPUs and GPUs, as well as good understanding on software-hardware codesign.
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Software Engineering IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 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 $188,000 – $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Responsibilities
- Leverage expertise in AI safety to uncover potential risks and develop novel mitigation strategies, including alignment techniques, constitutional AI approaches, RLHF, and robustness improvements for large language models.
- Create and implement comprehensive evaluation frameworks and red-teaming methodologies to assess model safety across diverse scenarios, edge cases, and potential failure modes.
- Build automated safety testing systems, generalize safety solutions into repeatable frameworks, and write efficient code for safety model pipelines and intervention systems.
- Maintain a user-oriented perspective by understanding safety needs from user perspectives, validating safety approaches through user research, and serving as a trusted advisor on AI safety matters.
- Track advances in AI safety research, identify relevant state-of-the-art techniques, and adapt safety algorithms to drive innovation in production systems serving millions of users.
- Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience prompting and working with large language models.
- Experience writing production-quality Python code.
- Demonstrated interest in Responsible AI.
Software Engineering IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 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 $158,400 – $258,000 per year.
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Software Engineering IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 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 $188,000 – $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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