Creative Technologist

Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $261K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

You will own the creation of high-fidelity demonstrations and interactive experiences, steering end-to-end prototyping, validation, and integration of emerging technologies across marketing programs.

  • Translate concepts into functional prototypes with cross-functional collaboration
  • Scale reusable storytelling patterns across teams and channels

Job Description

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.

Preferred

  • 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.
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Redmond, Washington, US
237K employees (11,715 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$120K/yr – $261K/yr

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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

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

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