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About the Role
Microsoft is building a modern, AI-forward marketing organization. This role develops and executes audience-first creative across integrated campaigns, social platforms, creator partnerships, digital experiences, and emerging formats, translating strategy into distinctive visual work that drives engagement and business impact.
Responsibilities
- Develop visual concepts and creative solutions for integrated marketing campaigns, with a particular focus on social-first, creator-led, and culturally relevant work.
- Partner with writers, strategists, social and creator leads, and marketers to translate briefs into compelling ideas and platform-native executions.
- Art direct creator partnerships, content captures, productions, photography, video, motion, and editorial shoots to ensure strategic alignment and a high level of craft.
- Create visual languages, design systems, storyboards, layouts, and campaign assets that can scale across social, digital, video, experiential, and emerging formats.
- Apply audience insights, platform behaviors, cultural trends, and brand standards to inform creative decisions and strengthen relevance.
- Adapt integrated campaign ideas for channels including LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging platforms without losing the core creative idea.
- Present concepts and creative rationale clearly to partners and stakeholders, incorporating feedback while protecting the integrity of the work.
- Collaborate with internal production teams, creators, and external agencies to deliver work with consistency, efficiency, and creative excellence.
- Use AI-enabled creative tools and workflows across ideation, image and video generation, iteration, and production, and share repeatable learnings with the broader team.
- Create and produce select content end-to-end, from concept through final execution, particularly for social, creator, executive, and rapid-response opportunities.
- Develop storyboards, social assets, presentations, motion explorations, and lightweight creative directly using modern design and AI-powered tools.
- Operate as both an art director and maker, moving fluidly between concepting, directing, prototyping, and hands-on content creation.
- Contribute to a culture of craft, curiosity, experimentation, and constructive creative feedback.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or Certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications, Human Computer Interaction, or a related art field AND 2+ years of experience in art, design, advertising, content creation, or a related creative field, OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in art direction, visual design, advertising, social content, or related creative disciplines.
- Portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, visual storytelling, and polished execution across social, creator, digital, and integrated campaign work.
- Experience developing and art directing social-first and creator-led campaigns, including directing creators, photographers, videographers, and production partners.
- Strong understanding of social platforms, creator ecosystems, audience behaviors, internet culture, and content formats.
- Experience creating or directing work across video, motion, photography, illustration, typography, layout, and design systems.
- Ability to translate complex products, services, and technologies into clear, relevant, and engaging visual stories.
- Experience collaborating with writers, strategists, marketers, social teams, product teams, and production partners.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking and conceptual development with hands-on creative execution.
- Experience working in fast-paced, multidisciplinary environments and managing multiple workstreams and deadlines.
- Experience leveraging AI-powered creative tools and modern design workflows.
- Portfolio demonstrating both creative direction and hands-on content creation.
- Experience independently creating content across design, social, presentation, motion, video, or AI-enabled formats.
- Proven ability to move from idea to finished asset with limited oversight in fast-moving environments.
- Strong communication, presentation, collaboration, and feedback skills.
Skills
- Visual storytelling
- Social-first content creation
- Creator-led content development
- Visual craft
- Cultural awareness
- Social platform engagement
- Brand consistency
- Conceptual thinking
- Hands-on execution
- Art direction
- Content creation
- AI-enabled tools
- Prototyping
- Iteration
- Design systems
- Storyboarding
- Layout
- Campaign asset creation
- Audience insights
- Platform behaviors
- Cultural trends
- Brand standards
- Integrated campaign adaptation
- Creative rationale presentation
- Production collaboration
- AI-enabled creative tools
- Ideation
- Image generation
- Video generation
- Modern design tools
- Motion exploration
- Visual concept development
- Communication
- Presentation
- Collaboration
- Feedback skills
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree or Certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications, Human Computer Interaction, or a related art field
Salary/Compensations
- USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
- USD $133,800 - $219,200 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
- At Microsoft, we’re building a modern, AI-forward marketing organization that learns faster, activates smarter, and drives measurable impact.
- Our approach blends human creativity with AI-powered insights to fuel bold, culturally inspired creative strategies at scale.
- We prioritize outcomes over outputs, embrace rapid learning loops, and operate in agile flight formations that unite disciplines across Commercial Brand, Creative, and Customer Marketing.
- At Microsoft, our 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 across 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.