# Principal UX Researcher

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Redmond, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $165,600 – $296,400 per year
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Microsoft AI Monetization is a customer-first organisation dedicated to building the next generation of AI-powered products that serve our customers’ business goals.

We are seeking a Principal UX Researcher to help us set the path for our next generation of AI-powered experiences focused on monetization. You will be part of a diverse team that collaboratively develops products and ideas to empower swift movement, creating seamless and delightful experiences that impact billions of customers worldwide.

**Responsibilities**

- Understand customer behaviours, motivations, needs, and aspirations to create a differentiated advantage in building relevant and impactful experiences.

- Drive product strategy through rigorous, multi-stage research programs executed to high standards.

- Balance research rigour with adaptability, working with a fast-moving team.

- Collaborate across teams and disciplines from early product stages to final implementations.

- Guide teams in creative directions and help set ambitious goals.

- Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to improve research processes and influence the approach to research.

- Lead research on highly visible products or business initiatives with notable risk and complexity.

- Influence at the highest organisational levels.

- Elevate the research craft of the team.

**Qualifications**

- Doctorate or Master's or Bachelor's Degree in a related field (Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) with relevant experience in User Experience Research.

- High-level research skills across qualitative and quantitative methods.

- Excellent communication and presentation skills.

- Experience working in B2B and B2C product spaces.

- Demonstrated commitment to user experience fundamentals, including accessibility and inclusive design.

**Salary** The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 – $296,400 per year. For specific locations like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the range is USD $220,800 – $331,200 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- User Experience Research
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Mixed Methods Research
- Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

### Nice to have
- Experience working in B2B and B2C product spaces
- Accessibility and inclusive design
- High-level research skills

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