Liza Yechezkell

About Liza Yechezkell

Product Design Manager with deep experience shaping complex data and developer experiences at Microsoft. I lead a global team across the US, Israel, and China, and focus on delivering clarity, structure, and intuitive workflows inside highly technical, enterprise-scale systems.My strengths sit at the intersection of UX, service design, and systems thinking. I’m passionate about turning complex problem spaces into clear, usable experiences — and helping my team grow through collaboration, curiosity, and meaningful craft.I’ve spent the last several years designing and leading experiences for Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, partnering closely with engineering and PM to align vision, reduce cognitive load, and deliver features used by millions of creators, analysts, and data engineers.I thrive in spaces where design elevates understanding, empowers people to work smarter, and brings order to complexity.

Experience

1. Microsoft Fabric Principal Design Manager - Data Analytics - Data Engineering, Data Science and Ai

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   Mar 2026 — Present · San Diego County, CA, US

   Lead a 14-person, globally distributed design org spanning UX and content designers across the US, China, and India covering Fabric\'s most complex and technically demanding workloads: Data Engineering, and Data Science & AI- Own end-to-end experience strategy across Lakehouse, Notebooks, Spark-based pipelines, ML experiment surfaces, and AI-integrated analytics workflows ensuring coherence across a multi-persona platform where data engineers, data scientists and business users share the same underlying system but have fundamentally different mental models and task structures- Shape how agentic experiences merge across workloads defining the interaction patterns, transparency mechanisms, and trust signals for AI-assisted data engineering and data science workflows, including code generation, model iteration, and pipeline authoring with agentic AI involvement- Drive cross-workload design coherence at the platform level establishing shared interaction patterns, information architecture principles, and design system contributions that connect the data engineering → data science → analytics pipeline into a unified, navigable experience rather than a collection of disconnected tools- Manage a multi-discipline, multi-level team including a direct reporting manager setting design direction, coaching and mentoring on strategic influence and craft, and building a team culture that balances execution velocity with design quality in a fast-moving product environment- Partner with engineering and product leadership across Data Engineering and Data Science orgs to align design investment with organizational priorities, user signals and industry trends.

Education

• Neri Bloomfield

  B.E.Des, Graphic Communications

  2006 — 2010

• Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

  M.Des, Industrial and Product Design

  2014 — 2016

• The NB Haifa School of Design

  Bachelor's degree, Design and Visual Communications, General

• Wizo high school

  Graphic design

  2002 — 2005