Principal Product Designer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Product Designer (AI): Designing and maintaining design systems to enable AI-powered monetization products for Microsoft, focusing on user-centric, high-quality, and cohesive design experiences. Focus on setting design vision, collaborating cross-functionally, and integrating new front-end and AI innovations.

Location: Must be based in Mountain View, United States with onsite work expected at least four days per week starting January 26, 2026

Salary: $139,900–$274,800 per year

Company

hirify.global Monetization builds next-generation AI-powered advertising and monetization products impacting billions of customers worldwide, emphasizing quality, simplicity, safety, evaluation, and kindness.

What you will do

• Create, implement, and maintain design systems enabling multiple teams to ship AI-powered experiences.
• Stay updated on front-end development, design systems, and AI innovations and integrate them into products.
• Collaborate with product leaders to manage product development and ensure user experience quality.
• Manage cross-functional communication, dependencies, and scheduling.
• Drive accountability for design excellence and product quality.
• Partner with product teams to define goals, set experiments, and evaluate effectiveness using data and research.

Requirements

• Must be based in or able to work onsite in Mountain View, United States.
• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in relevant design or HCI fields with 6+ or 8+ years experience respectively, or equivalent experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating experience designing world-class consumer products from vision to launch.
• Extensive experience designing and maintaining robust design systems.
• Strong communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and manage multiple priorities.

Nice to have

• Prototype-level engineering experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience setting design vision for innovative products requiring bold thinking.
• Experience in large-scale design systems environments.
• Ability to translate vision into polished design prototypes and lead phased execution plans.
• Experience leveraging qualitative and quantitative research for design direction.

Culture & Benefits

• Friendly, diverse, and fast-moving creative team.
• Focus on quality, meaningful innovation, and user-centric design.
• Inclusive culture emphasizing respect, integrity, accountability, and kindness.
• Regular shipping with real and immediate impact.
• Supportive environment fostering knowledge sharing and growth.