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**_Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery. the stuff dreams are made of._**
**Who We Are.**
When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the _storytellers_ bringing our characters to life, the _creators_ bringing them to your living rooms and the _dreamers_ creating what's next.
From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
The Creative Strategist of Partner Management on the Hotel, Bulk and Institutions (HBI) team will provide critical day-to-day support to the team as an integral part of the distribution and marketing of HBO and HBO Max. We are seeking a person who is highly creative, visually sharp, and adept at writing clear, engaging, and targeted content. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about the HBO brand and can seamlessly blend strong visual storytelling with compelling copywriting to bring sales, distribution, marketing, and event strategies into impactful creative executions. From visually stunning presentation decks to attention-grabbing advertising and event design, this person will transform varied business objectives into powerful creative materials across both visual and written formats. This person will also be responsible for overseeing the logistics of industry-related and team events with varying size and scope, serve as the liaison between Partner Marketing and the HBI team, and assist the day-to-day needs of internal stakeholders and distribution partners. This position will report to the Director of HBI Partner Management.
**Key Responsibilities**
**Creative Strategy & Storytelling**
+ Interpret sales, marketing, and distribution strategies into creative concepts that communicate clearly and effectively across multiple platforms.
+ Develop strategic creative ideas that elevate messaging and drive engagement across campaigns, presentations, and event activations.
+ Work with creative agency to implement and execute these ideas into marketing tactics
**Copywriting & Messaging Development**
+ Write clear, compelling, and on-brand copy for:
+ Presentation decks and business proposals
+ Print and digital advertisements
+ Event materials and booth messaging
+ Posters, banners, and marketing collateral
+ Email campaigns and social content
+ Ensure all written content is aligned with brand tone, business strategy and target audience.
**Presentation Design**
+ Design and write cohesive PowerPoint decks that tell a clear visual and exciting narrative story for sales support and presentations.
+ Collaborate with team to distill complex ideas into visually and verbally digestible slides.
**Marketing & Promotional Asset Creation**
+ Ideate, conceptualize, and produce integrated materials including:
+ Digital banners
+ Magazine and trade ads
+ Posters and one-sheets
+ Event booth graphics
+ Experiential and out-of-home advertising
+ Own both visual and written elements to ensure cohesive, impactful storytelling.
**Campaign Development & Execution**
+ Partner with cross-functional teams on marketing campaigns from concept through execution-bringing together design, copy, and brand strategy.
+ Contribute to brainstorms, campaign ideation, and pitch development.
**Partner and Project Management**
+ Manage creative timelines and asset delivery across multiple workstreams.
+ Coordinate with partners, agencies, production vendors, printers to ensure quality and consistency.
**Conference and Event Planning, Logistics and Execution**
+ Assist Director, team, and partners to conceptualize, plan, and execute creative strategy for major industry conferences and trade shows.
+ Support the development of all branded creative elements including:
+ Booth and environmental design
+ Full-funnel event marketing
+ On-site signage and print materials
+ Giveaways, experiential activations, and talking points
+ Presentation decks and custom video
+ Ensure brand visibility, messaging clarity, and audience engagement at every touchpoint.
+ Coordinate timelines, workflows, vendors, and asset delivery to meet event deadlines.
+ Manage the inventory, shipping, and delivery of giveaways
**Specialized Partner Management**
+ Manage the relationship and marketing deliverables for specialized partners including college and luxury segments
+ Maximize distribution, marketing, events, and membership opportunities
+ Day-to-day support of the partnership
**Qualifications**
+ 4-5 years of experience as a creative strategist, graphic designer or creative marketing in the television, film, media, and/or advertising industry
+ Passionate and knowledgeable about TV, film, streaming and the HBO/HBO Max brand and content.
+ Strong portfolio showcasing both visual design and copywriting across digital, print, event, and presentation formats
+ Proven ability to interpret business strategies into effective creative messaging-both visually and verbally
+ Exceptional writing and storytelling skills across a range of formats and tones (B2B, B2C, experiential, promotional)
+ Analytic understanding of brand voice, tone, and positioning
+ Experience producing content for events, trade shows, or entertainment marketing campaigns
+ Strong organizational, detail-oriented and time-management skills, with the ability and flexibility to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines
+ Solutions-oriented, collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills and the ability to pivot for the best possible outcomes
+ Must be able to travel for events and conferences in the US approximately 10%
+ **REQUIRED:** Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign); Keynote and After Effects a plus
**How We Get Things Done.**
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
**Championing Inclusion at WBD**
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $63,000.00 - $117,000.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We're looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.
**About the Organization**
Tech at Lilly builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Tech at Lilly is that we create new possibilities through tech to advance our purpose - creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.
The Lilly UX team is an enterprise internal digital experience design service team that operates like an agency. We partner with teams around Lilly to create exceptional digital experiences. Our team delivers digital experience design, user experience research, and digital design evaluation with digital accessibility built into everything we make. We also host the Lilly Design System, a world-class design system we use to ensure our product are mobile friendly, accessible, and efficient to create.
Help us figure out how we can make our digital experiences better by generating insightful, powerful research findings!
Lilly is on an exciting journey to transform the technology at Lilly into a world-class technology organization within a Pharma company. Part of this journey is to become a digital product-based organization. As a result, there is a renewed focus on creating both a world class User Centred Design capability to deliver an exciting portfolio of patient and employee facing solutions to power our business. We need your help to understand just how we are going to do that.
**What You'll Be Doing:**
You'll be joining our Incubation Lab, a design and technology team re-imagining our approach to human-centered design innovation and rapid concept development at Lilly. We define, envision and shape differentiated customer experiences that empower individuals to live their best lives, as unencumbered by their condition as possible.
As a Design leader in our Incubation Lab, you'll collaborate with leaders across the organization to define big bets and transformative experiences by leading human-centered design and innovation programs through rapid proof-of-concept and prototyping activities. As a seasoned design leader, you'll maintain a high standard of quality and ingenuity at every step of the process through direct contribution and mentorship of other designers, technologists, and cross-functional peer groups.
Your fierce advocacy for design and deep empathy for user needs will help elevate our innovation practice and foster a culture that challenges teams to think differently in pursuit of exceptional customer experiences. Through it all, the Design Director will contribute thought leadership, creative thinking and strategic direction to continually evolve and advance our Incubation practice and processes.
**How You'll Succeed:**
+ Deliver excellence: Set and uphold a high bar for design craft, strategic thinking, and execution across all initiatives.
+ Inspire and grow talent: Mentor and empower a team of designers to expand their skills, confidence, and creative impact.
+ Drive innovation: Champion experimentation and bold thinking to shape forward-looking experiences that redefine what's possible at Lilly.
**What You Should Bring:**
+ Oversee a diverse network of internal and external design collaborators to envision transformative experiences that deliver real value to people living with a variety of medical conditions.
+ Collaborate with key stakeholders to turn complex and ambiguous problems into actionable design prompts and articulate possible solutions through narrative crafting and interactive proof-of-concepts.
+ Cultivate and grow relationships with partner functions to foster a shared sense of the user-centricity and demonstrate how design empowers the creation of better experiences and products.
+ Leverage considerable and demonstrable design expertise to offer mentorship, guidance and objective critique to elevate and uphold the design quality bar across products and prototypes.
+ Contribute design work directly, when appropriate, to ensure storytelling, prototype and interface artifacts are held to the highest standard of quality.
+ Articulate design decisions and rationale effectively and persuasively to a wide range of non-technical and executive-level stakeholders to ensure alignment across programs.
+ Understand when and to proceed and when to pivot ideas, based on rapidly evolving circumstances and emerging insights from users or internal subject-matter experts.
**Your Basic Qualifications:**
+ BA/BS in in Human Computer Interaction, design, or relevant field
+ OR high School Diploma/GED with 10+ years of experience in design and/or design research
+ 10+ years of experience in design with 5+ years of experience managing and leading other designers and creatives in complex environments.
+ Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.
**Additional Skills/Preferences:**
+ Ability to create and maintain long-lasting and highly collaborative relationships with cross-functional team leaders and external partners across the enterprise.
+ Exemplary verbal and written communication skills, possessing the ability to make complex ideas simple and consumable for a broad range of collaborators.
+ Deep expertise and practice in the discipline of design with a strong track record of delivering digital experiences in native and web applications while balancing integration and iteration against key measurable priorities, results, and business impact.
+ A collaborative and optimistic spirit to navigate difficult challenges without losing the joy, empathy, curiosity and sense of fun that makes design careers so rewarding.
+ History leading design teams in healthcare, pharmaceuticals or other highly regulated industries.
+ Understanding of contemporary development processes and familiarity with the possibilities and deployment of modern front-end libraries and frameworks.
Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.
Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women's Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.
Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$141,000 - $246,400
Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly's compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.
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**About the Role**
We are seeking an Design Director for Brand Design who excels at working within and expanding extensible design systems to create cohesive and impactful visual solutions across multiple parts of the Uber brand, across different mediums and platforms. This role requires a collaborative individual who can partner seamlessly with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product, and other key stakeholders, bringing creative problem-solving skills and a sharp design sensibility to every project. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator with a clear and compelling point of view, while remaining flexible and open to collaboration. If you're passionate about delivering designs and scalable brand solutions that are both visually stunning and strategically effective, we'd love to hear from you.
This role will entail communicating effectively with the senior leadership across Brand, Marketing, Campaign, and Product, as well as collaborating with designers, copywriters, developers, project and marketing managers. This person should be able to think beyond a single channel execution, know how to scale designs effectively across responsive states and channel variance between print, out-of-home, web, email, experiential, and social, and expand the potential of design systems and template frameworks. Be prepared to lead and develop guidelines, briefings, layouts and ideas from the ground up, pitch ideas to team members, create compelling, relevant, and meaningful work, as well as be a steward for the brand with partner agencies and teams throughout Uber. As an ADD at Uber, you'll work on multiple projects, prioritizing as needed and efficiently managing time for you and your team while receiving strategic and tactical direction from relevant stakeholders. You'll intelligently explore the problem space with a high degree of autonomy, using the appropriate tools and levels of fidelity. Owning the design process end-to-end, moving from concept through to shipping and producing handoffs to support that process using channel best practices and creating accurate artifacts ready for deployment. This is both a leadership and a hands-on role scaling appropriate as the work demands. The position requires business acumen, brand strategic thinking, team leadership and craft mentorship, project and resource management.
**What the Candidate Will Do**
1. Collaborate and ideate with multidisciplinary teams including leadership, senior stakeholders, copywriters, communication designers, illustrators, motion & animation designers, environments designers, brand strategists, marketing managers, and creative directors to build and maintain visual brand excellence for a wide range of needs
2. Understand and help define design briefs and requirements before completing
3. Manage, direct, and grow designers and agencies to meet business needs
4. Brainstorm and iterate with the creative team and brand leadership to help elevate and evolve design at Uber
5. Develop creative solutions for product, digital, and print communications where ideas can work globally, scale locally, and adapt for a variety of surfaces and use cases
6. Develop resources, guidelines, and templates that empower the global marketing and product teams to use illustration in impactful and resonant ways
7. Leads multiple project/program/platform team(s)
8. Questions the status quo. Identifies new strategic opportunities.
9. Constantly raises the bar on work quality
10. Solves challenges that contribute to company goals, enables operational efficiencies
**Basic Qualifications**
1. 10+ years working as a Design lead on a brand team, in a creative agency or comparable in-house agency, or creative organization
2. Bachelor or Masters Degree in design or equivalent
**Preferred Qualifications**
1. Maintain a portfolio of beautiful, compelling design work
2. Experience working on a range of projects including scalable and extensible design systems, guidelines, responsive web pages or emails, out of home or advertisements
3. Solid experience in all aspects of graphic design, with brand design and visual system design systems are crucial
4. Expertise in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite applications
5. Ability to design according to business and technical requirements and comfort with ambiguity and changes in direction
6. Experience working with or influencing brand strategy or business objectives
7. Bring definition to projects by focusing on broader objectives rather than fixed deliverables
8. Experience leading and mentoring designers and managing collaborations with external agency partners
9. Experience outward communication of design changes, agency briefings, and brand onboarding of teams
10. Experience working well with creatives as well as cross functional stakeholders, receiving feedback, and adapting work.
11. Fosters strong working relationships with cross functional partners
12. A desire to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with a cross functional partners
13. Thrive in collaborative environments while maintaining a clear and confident point of view
14. Detail oriented and organized
15. Strong communication skills, an ability to understand your audience, and can present your work in compelling ways
16. Expertise in branding, style guides, experiential, and digital marketing (Email, in-app, SMS/PUSH, paid social and display channels) best practices or proficiency using various marketing technologies
17. Familiarity with user experience principles
18. Experience scaling ideas for global deliverables
19. Familiarity with Google Docs and Slides
20. Proficiency in quickly iterating in design for customer testing
21. Experience with physical activations and/or environmental graphic design
22. Leverages AI and generative AI solutions throughout personal and design work flows
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$186,000 per year - USD$207,000 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form-

The CoreAI Computational Design team is shaping the next generation of coding environments across VS Code, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, and Visual Studio. We are looking for a design leader who can guide this frontier with courage and curiosity.
As coding evolves from a one-way act of writing instructions into a dialogue with agentic systems, we see new possibilities for how software can be built, deployed, and maintained. Our vision is to make this future tangible by designing experiences that feel natural to use, draw strength from scale, and create the sense of working with a true collaborator.
This role calls for someone who loves to live in code-equally at home guiding a team of designers as they are prototyping and exploring new interaction paradigms themselves. By combining leadership with craft, you will help a passionate community of developers realize their ideas and build the software of tomorrow. We are committed to building with responsibility and trust at the foundation, moving quickly while ensuring the innovation we deliver is both lasting and meaningful.
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**
+ **Shape the future of coding:** Define and communicate a bold vision for AI-native developer tools that inspire and empower millions of developers worldwide.
+ **Lead** **with craft:** Mentor and grow a team of designers and UX engineers, modeling what it means to design in and with code while pushing the edges of what is possible.
+ **Prototype the frontier:** Explore new agentic workflows, rapidly test concepts, and translate the latest ideas into tangible, shippable experiences.
+ **Simplify the complex:** Turn what are often confusing AI capabilities into easy-to-comprehend interactions that feel truly human.
+ **Collaborate across disciplines:** Work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering, product, and research partners to bring strategies to life.
+ **Champion the developer:** Advocate for the needs of individual makers and enterprise teams alike, ensuring our tools serve the full spectrum of creative work.
+ **Balance speed with responsibility:** Move quickly to explore new patterns while grounding every design decision in trust, accessibility, and long-term impact.
+ **Stay ahead of change:** Continuously investigate emerging technologies, frameworks, and prototyping methods to keep CoreAI at the forefront of the coding revolution.
**Qualifications**
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 7+ 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 9+ 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.
+ Basic knowledge of eitherVS Code, Visual Studio, GitHub,orother development tools
+ Comfortable with advancements in Large Language Models and how they accelerate coding tasks today-especially in multi-agent scenarios.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Comfortable with Machine Learning, Terminal, CLI, IDE, and/or Editor-first experiences
+ Experience creating interactive, coded prototypes
+ Experience working in an engineering sprint-based environment
+ Basic knowledge of VS Code, Visual Studio, GitHub, and other development tools
+ Fluency in basic web fundamentals (semantic and accessible HTML, CSS variables, progressive enhancement, modern vanilla JavaScript, and web components)
Product Design IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $96,400 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 220,800 - 331,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: will accept applications for the role until October 31, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

**About Ford**
Do you want to change the world? The Ford Motor Company had endured and thrived for 118 years - through every imaginable challenge - because we have the vision to imagine the future and the courage to change. Ford is redefining how it will build a better world for the future by creating a culture and opportunities where employees will capitalize on Ford's excellence in designing and building the most iconic products while also helping develop the future of world-class connected BEVs. Ford is transforming our global automotive business to scale EVs, strengthen operations, and unlock value. We will deliver the speed of a startup, with the deep expertise of high-volume production. This is the opportunity of a lifetime.
We are excited to lay the foundation for Ford's push towards a new automotive future. We aim to create digital products that improve over time, amplify mobility for all, and create a thrilling driving experience for our customers.
**The Opportunity**
Our organization, Digital Product Design, is re-founding Ford's digital experience, evolving to experience-based product development that embraces vehicle exterior/interior, software, and service design and implementation.
As a leader on Ford's Digital Product Design Team, you'll be at the heart of designing products that drive this revolution - inspiring your peers and pushing the industry. You'll also be creating/working at scale. Every day, Ford's vehicles and services support millions of people worldwide. So, at Ford, we're not just inventing the future; we're operationalizing it to help everyone improve their lives.
**The Position**
We're looking for an inspiring Sr. Director of Product Design to lead, mentor, and grow our talented team of product designers in our Digital Product Design organization. This isn't just a management role; you'll be a key strategic partner, working closely with product management, engineering, research, and other leaders across the company to define the future of our vehicles and services.
You'll champion user-centered design principles, elevate the craft of design within the team, and foster a collaborative and innovative design culture. If you're passionate about building and leading high-performing teams, setting design strategy, and ensuring we consistently deliver beautiful, intuitive, and impactful experiences, we'd love to talk to you!
**What you'll do.**  
Lead and Mentor the Team: Directly manage, mentor, and coach a team of product designers at various levels. Help them grow their skills, navigate challenges, and achieve their career goals. Foster a culture of feedback, learning, and psychological safety.
Set Design Vision & Strategy: Partner with product leadership to define the long-term vision and strategy for the product design function. Align design efforts with overall business objectives and product roadmaps.
Elevate Design Craft & Quality: Establish and maintain high standards for design quality, usability, and consistency across all products and platforms. Oversee the design process from concept to execution, ensuring thoughtful solutions that meet user needs and business goals.
Drive User-Centered Practices: Champion user research and testing throughout the product development lifecycle. Ensure the team deeply understands our users, their needs, and pain points, and that these insights inform design decisions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong, collaborative relationships with partners in Product Management, Engineering, User Research, Marketing, Data Science, and other departments. Be a strong advocate for design and user experience within the company.
Resource Planning & Allocation: Plan and allocate design resources effectively across multiple projects and initiatives. Anticipate hiring needs and actively participate in recruiting to build a diverse and high-performing team.
Define & Optimize Processes: Continuously evaluate and improve design processes, tools, and workflows to increase efficiency, collaboration, and the overall impact of the design team.
Champion Design Systems: Oversee the development and evolution of our design system to ensure consistency, efficiency, and scalability across our products.
Contribute to Product Strategy: Actively participate in high-level product strategy discussions, bringing a strong design perspective and advocating for innovative solutions that solve real user problems.
**The minimum requirements we seek:**
+ 15+ years of experience in product design, with a significant portion in a leadership or management role, overseeing teams of product designers.
**Our Preferred Requirements:**
+ Proven track record of defining and executing design strategy for successful products.
+ Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, methodologies, and best practices (UX, UI, Interaction Design, User Research).
+ Experience building, mentoring, and leading high-performing design teams.
+ Strong portfolio showcasing leadership experience, strategic thinking, and the ability to deliver impactful design solutions through a team. Examples of your team's work and how you guided them are highly valuable.
+ Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Ability to articulate design decisions and strategy clearly to both design and non-design audiences.
+ Experience collaborating closely with Product Management and Engineering leadership throughout the product development lifecycle.
+ Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.
**What You'll Receive in Return**
As part of the Ford family, you'll enjoy excellent compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes generous PTO, retirement, savings and stock investment plans, incentive compensation, and much more. You'll also experience exciting opportunities for professional and personal growth and recognition. Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Ford Motor Company is an equal opportunity employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.
**Requisition ID** : 49172

The CoreAI Computational Design team is shaping the next generation of coding environments across VS Code, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, and Visual Studio. We are looking for a design leader who can guide this frontier with courage and curiosity.
As coding evolves from a one-way act of writing instructions into a dialogue with agentic systems, we see new possibilities for how software can be built, deployed, and maintained. Our vision is to make this future tangible by designing experiences that feel natural to use, draw strength from scale, and create the sense of working with a true collaborator.
This role calls for someone who loves to live in code-equally at home guiding a team of designers as they are prototyping and exploring new interaction paradigms themselves. By combining leadership with craft, you will help a passionate community of developers realize their ideas and build the software of tomorrow. We are committed to building with responsibility and trust at the foundation, moving quickly while ensuring the innovation we deliver is both lasting and meaningful.
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**
+ **Shape the future of coding:** Define and communicate a bold vision for AI-native developer tools that inspire and empower millions of developers worldwide.
+ **Lead** **with craft:** Mentor and grow a team of designers and UX engineers, modeling what it means to design in and with code while pushing the edges of what is possible.
+ **Prototype the frontier:** Explore new agentic workflows, rapidly test concepts, and translate the latest ideas into tangible, shippable experiences.
+ **Simplify the complex:** Turn what are often confusing AI capabilities into easy-to-comprehend interactions that feel truly human.
+ **Collaborate across disciplines:** Work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering, product, and research partners to bring strategies to life.
+ **Champion the developer:** Advocate for the needs of individual makers and enterprise teams alike, ensuring our tools serve the full spectrum of creative work.
+ **Balance speed with responsibility:** Move quickly to explore new patterns while grounding every design decision in trust, accessibility, and long-term impact.
+ **Stay ahead of change:** Continuously investigate emerging technologies, frameworks, and prototyping methods to keep CoreAI at the forefront of the coding revolution.
**Qualifications**
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 7+ 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 9+ 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.
+ Basic knowledge of eitherVS Code, Visual Studio, GitHub,orother development tools
+ Comfortable with advancements in Large Language Models and how they accelerate coding tasks today-especially in multi-agent scenarios.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Comfortable with Machine Learning, Terminal, CLI, IDE, and/or Editor-first experiences
+ Experience creating interactive, coded prototypes
+ Experience working in an engineering sprint-based environment
+ Basic knowledge of VS Code, Visual Studio, GitHub, and other development tools
+ Fluency in basic web fundamentals (semantic and accessible HTML, CSS variables, progressive enhancement, modern vanilla JavaScript, and web components)
Product Design IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $96,400 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 220,800 - 331,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: will accept applications for the role until October 31, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

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 small, friendly, diverse and a fast-moving creative team, supporting one another to do the best work of our lives, always looking to break new ground with an unshakeable dedication to the user. We are proud of what we build, how we build it, and that our products define the AI era while earning the trust of our users. 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.  
Our Core Values: 
+ 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. 
We are seeking a **Principal Design Director** to join our team, bringing a solid consumer and enterprise product design experience to help us with the next wave of Monetization experiences. For this role we're looking for a leader with solid design skills, business skills and people management skills; you should have superb visual and interaction design skills, experience managing 15-20 individual contributors and managers, be comfortable with ambiguity involved in inventing v1 experiences. You will lead your team to concept, prototype and evangelize new customer experiences as well as help evolve our design system, working across teams to bring design coherence to our framework and create beautiful, inclusive, and accessible experiences that customers love.
In addition to setting vision and direction, the ideal candidate is a maker who can craft high quality design work at a fast pace within our design principles. 
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**
+ Lead a team of designers, creating clarity, generating energy and delivering results.
+ Drive product experience strategy, interaction design, creative direction and craftsmanship for a v1 product.
+ Drive cross-team collaborations between your team and other designers, researchers, product managers, product planners, and developers from early product stages to implementation.
+ Understand the behaviors, motivations, and needs of our customers to develop relevant and impactful experiences.
+ Contribute to strategic product planning via experience roadmaps.
+ Propose creative solutions to complex user experience journeys, drawing on your ability to map end-to-end experiences.
+ Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to improve our processes, products, and culture, influencing design direction and research methodologies.
**Qualifications**
**Required Qualifcations:**
+ Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 7+ 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 9+ 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.
+ Experience leading technical design teams and distilling complexities to create simple and beautiful design solutions.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Demonstrated sense of Interaction Design attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design.
+ Solid Visual Design skills.
+ Prior experience designing news content.
+ Excellent communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize teams and advocate for your ideas.
+ Experience designing in Figma.
+ **_Resume must include a link to design portfolio_** .
Product Design M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $96,400 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 220,800 - 331,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: will accept applications for the role until November 10th, 2025.
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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .