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About the Role

The Creative Technologist drives the connection between design and engineering, transforming concepts into real, interactive product experiences. This role ensures our storytelling is grounded in functionality, accurate to the product, secure, visually refined, and ready for capture across social, web, events, keynotes, and all marketing channels. You will lead the development of front-end design solutions, functional prototypes, tools, and user interface systems that bring Microsoft commercial products to life, accelerate creative exploration, and help teams align around what is technically and creatively possible. The ideal candidate combines systems thinking, strong aesthetic judgment, engineering fundamentals, and hands-on technical depth.

Responsibilities

Build high-fidelity demonstrations, functional prototypes, and interactive experiences that accurately reflect Microsoft product behavior and strengthen product, brand, and marketing narratives.
Deliver film-ready and deployment-ready experiences for product videos, social content, web interactions, events, and keynote demonstrations across commercial marketing channels.
Translate ambiguous creative concepts into functional prototypes that accelerate learning, align stakeholders, and enable confident creative and production decisions.
Shape cohesive end-to-end experiences with motion designers, visual designers, producers, and creative directors, establishing a high bar for visual craft, interaction quality, and technical execution.
Ensure product accuracy and technical feasibility by partnering with product marketing, engineering, and product teams throughout concept development, prototyping, validation, and production.
Integrate emerging technologies, including AI-powered tools, browser-based interactivity, real-time engines, code-driven animation, plug-ins, and APIs, to create new storytelling formats and accelerate creative workflows.
Scale successful storytelling solutions across teams and channels by establishing reusable patterns, documenting technical approaches, and maintaining shared prototype and tooling libraries.

Requirements

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code OR equivalent experience.
Demonstrated proficiency in one or more creative development and prototyping technologies, such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, WebGL/Three.js, Unity, Unreal Engine, or equivalent environments.
A portfolio demonstrating strong visual and interaction craft, including composition, typography, motion, timing, and polished, production-ready execution.
Experience building product demonstrations or interactive storytelling experiences for enterprise, productivity, or technology products.
Familiarity with generative AI, foundation models, agentic workflows, or machine-learning-powered creative tooling.
Experience with real-time rendering, code-driven animation, motion integration, or technical storytelling for film, social, web, or event production.
Experience designing reusable tools, systems, or prototyping frameworks that enable broader creative teams while balancing technical feasibility, product accuracy, brand standards, accessibility, performance, and security.

Skills

JavaScript
TypeScript
React
WebGL/Three.js
Unity
Unreal Engine
Generative AI
Foundation models
Agentic workflows
Machine-learning-powered creative tooling
Real-time rendering
Code-driven animation
Motion integration
Technical storytelling

Experience Level

3+ years experience
4+ years experience

Education Level

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field

Salary/Compensations

USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

About the Company

Microsoft's mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions.
With a growth‑mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers.
Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.

Equal Opportunity

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.