Creative Director

Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)

$143K/yr – $304K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale Microsofts in-house creative output across brand and advertising, driving multi-channel campaigns with hands-on execution, and integrating AI responsibly while partnering with stakeholders and agencies.

  • Own multi-channel creative ownership from concept through delivery across brand campaigns, digital, social, video, and experiential work.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders and agency partners to translate briefs into breakthrough work while managing budgets and resourcing.
  • Explore and define AI-enabled workflows and stay ahead of tech and culture to inform creative at scale.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set and uphold the creative bar for your portfolio — driving quality, craft, innovation, and cultural relevance across all output
  • Lead end-to-end creative development across brand campaigns, advertising content, digital, social, video, and experiential touchpoints
  • Serve as a senior creative voice in brand and advertising decisions, ensuring work reflects Microsoft's brand ambition and drives measurable business impact
  • Concept, direct, and ship work hands-on alongside your team — modeling the standard rather than only directing it
  • Partner with internal business stakeholders to translate briefs into breakthrough creative, running efficient brief-to-output and review processes
  • Collaborate with agency partners and external vendors on assigned work, contributing to the right blend of in-house and external resourcing
  • Manage your portfolio's project budgets and resourcing, delivering on time, on scope, and within plan
  • Help build the team's operating rhythms, creative review frameworks, and quality benchmarks as the org scales
  • Integrate AI-powered tools and workflows into your creative production responsibly and ambitiously — helping define what AI-enabled creative looks like at Microsoft's scale
  • Stay ahead of emerging creative technologies, platforms, and cultural trends, and bring that perspective into the work
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Microsoft

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

Founded in 1975
Redmond, Washington, US
237K employees (11,715 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3B
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.6%
Direct
56.9%
Referral
7.3%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~225.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6,377 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
21 years
Median Tenure
14 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
44

Funding

Total Funding
$1M
Last Raise
$1M
Post IPO Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2022
    Post IPO Equity
  • Jan 2020
    Post IPO Equity
  • Sep 1981
    Series Unknown • $1M

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