Creative Director, Copy - Windows, Surface & Services

Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)

$143K/yr – $304K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own and lead the creative direction for Windows, Surface, and Services across multi‑channel campaigns, translating complex technology into simple, memorable consumer ideas while guiding end‑to‑end production and collaboration with cross‑functional teams.

  • Own and drive integrated marketing creative direction
  • Translate product truth into consumer storytelling across formats
  • Collaborate with directors, production partners, and agencies

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead creative direction across integrated, multi-channel marketing efforts for Windows, Surface devices, and Services including Bing and Edge, spanning brand advertising, product launches, paid media, social, digital, experiential, and ongoing go-to-market communications.
  • Develop breakthrough creative concepts and campaign platforms rooted in audience insight, product truth, cultural relevance, and strategic clarity.
  • Concept and write film, television, online video, branded entertainment, and other cinematic storytelling, from early creative territories and treatments through finished scripts.
  • Play an active creative role throughout film production, including director selection, pre-production, casting, production design, shoots, edit, sound, music, and finishing.
  • Partner closely with directors, DPs, production companies, editors, and agency teams to protect the core idea while pushing every element of the work toward the highest level of craft.
  • Develop social-first creative ideas and campaigns designed around how audiences actually discover, participate in, and share culture across platforms.
  • Create distinctive ideas for paid media, understanding how a campaign system can stretch from major brand moments to short-form, platform-native, and performance-oriented creative without losing the strength of the idea.
  • Write and shape work across a wide range of formats including campaign platforms, headlines, scripts, manifestos, social content, digital experiences, product storytelling, launch narratives, and presentations.
  • Translate complex technology into simple, memorable consumer ideas without sacrificing intelligence, personality, or product truth.
  • Serve as a creative partner across Integrated Marketing, Advertising, Media, Social, Product Marketing, Design, Production, Engineering, and external agencies.

Requirements

  • Master's Degree in a related field AND 6+ years experience working in a creative space for a global brand.
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in a related field AND 8+ years experience working in a creative space for a global brand.
  • OR equivalent experience, including demonstrated experience working in a creative space for a global brand.

Preferred

  • Master's Degree in a related field AND 8+ years experience working in a creative space for a global brand.
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in a related field AND 12+ years experience working in a global brand.
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience creating and leading breakthrough advertising and brand creative for globally recognized brands.
  • Experience writing commercials, brand films, short-form video, branded content, and other forms of scripted storytelling.
  • Experience taking work through pre-production, production, shoots, post-production, and final delivery.
  • Experience collaborating directly with directors, DPs, editors, production companies, and other filmmaking talent.
  • Experience with advertising writing across formats, from campaign platforms and headlines to long-form copy, scripts, social content, and brand storytelling.
  • Experience developing social-first creative and paid social campaigns for major brands.
  • Experience creating integrated campaigns spanning film, social, digital, paid media, experiential, and emerging formats.
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Founded in 1975
Redmond, Washington, US
237K employees (11,715 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$143K/yr – $304K/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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Creative Director, Copy - Windows, Surface & Services

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