Principal Design Technologist

As a Principal Design Technologist within the Power Apps (App Agents) team, you will be a visionary leader at the intersection of design craft, AI architecture, and enterprise software. Your mission is to define and build the future of "agentic experiences" for the Microsoft Power Platform, shifting from monolithic applications to composable, modular skills. You will be the primary design architect for how users and AI agents collaborate to build, automate, and innovate at scale. This is a "builder-first" role for a hybrid professional with a background in both Design and Technology. You will spend your time crafting a vision in the codebase, leveraging "vibe coding" and advanced AI orchestration, to transform complex business requirements into production-grade agentic solutions. You are not just building user interfaces; you are shaping the reasoning, memory, and capabilities of the next generation of enterprise AI. Your role will be all about defining the vision, proving, advancing, and evolving forward-looking UX concepts for enterprise products through prototyping and hands-on product work. A Day in the Life: A typical day for a Principal Design Technologist in the App Agents team is a high-velocity blend of technical craftsmanship and strategic provocation. You might begin your morning "vibe coding" in an AI-native IDE, iteratively refining the non-deterministic behaviors of a multi-agent workflow directly within the production codebase to ensure interaction fidelity and feel. By midday, your focus pivots to architect instructions for the MCP server to ensure agents can accurately discover and reason over business data to engage with users. In the afternoon, you may transition into a quality UX architect role, designing "LLM-as-a-judge" evaluation pipelines to benchmark the helpfulness, coherence, and instruction compliance of new features against designer-curated "ground truth" datasets. Your day concludes as a strategic bridge, mentoring the broader UX organization on AI fluency while delivering "unsolicited provocations" through high-fidelity functional artifacts that challenge product assumptions and push the platform toward an agent-first future. We moved past the era of 'Chatbots' into 'Agentic Systems.' We need a Principal Design Technologist who understands that in an agent-first world, the UI is no longer a static screen, but a dynamic negotiation between human intent and machine reasoning. You aren't just designing a product; you are designing the 'intelligence layer' of the enterprise.