Senior Content Creator

Redmond, WA (Hybrid)

$106K/yr – $223K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 17 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end social video programs from concept to delivery, translating product priorities into platform-native stories across launches, live events, and campaigns.

  • Own projects end-to-end: brief and concept → story and script → pre-production → shoot and demo capture → edit → stakeholder review → final platform-ready delivery.
  • Lead boots-on-the-ground social capture for launches, tentpoles, campaigns, and live events.
  • Build product demonstrations into social video by planning the narrative and integrating demos clearly into the final edit.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Concept, shoot, and edit social video for Employee Generated Content, product demos, brand and product announcements, live events, and tentpole or campaign moments.
  • Own projects end-to-end: brief and concept → story and script → pre-production → shoot and demo capture → edit → stakeholder review → final platform-ready delivery.
  • Create platform-native social video in vertical, square, and horizontal formats while maintaining visual, audio, pacing, accessibility, and brand standards.
  • Partner closely with Creator & Fandom, Social, Brand, Product Marketing, and subject-matter experts to translate product truth and business priorities into compelling social stories.
  • Direct and support employees, executives, creators, and internal partners on camera to deliver authentic, clear, performance-ready content.
  • Lead boots-on-the-ground social capture for launches, tentpoles, campaigns, and live events, identifying and producing timely stories in fast-moving environments.
  • Build product demonstrations into social video by planning the narrative, capturing the required screens or workflows, and integrating demos clearly into the final edit.
  • Manage footage, project files, review rounds, and final deliverables, and engage freelance or lightweight production support when the scope requires it.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 3+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred

  • 3+ years of experience creating end-to-end video content for digital or social platforms, including concepting, producing, shooting, and editing, or equivalent experience.
  • A portfolio demonstrating a range of social storytelling across Employee Generated Content, demos, product or brand announcements, events, campaigns, or related formats.
  • Experience shooting video with DSLR, mirrorless, mobile, or hybrid setups and working hands-on with lighting, audio, and basic production equipment.
  • Proficiency with post-production tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, CapCut, Final Cut, or similar.
  • Deep understanding of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and how hooks, pacing, duration, framing, captions, and storytelling adapt across platforms.
  • Ability to work independently, manage multiple fast-moving workstreams, and collaborate fluidly across creative, social, product, and marketing teams.
  • Experience producing and integrating product demonstrations, screen recordings, motion graphics, captions, and other supporting visual elements.
  • Experience coordinating small crews, freelancers, or agency partners while remaining hands-on throughout production and post-production.
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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)

Salaries

Posted range

$106K/yr – $223K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($165K) is 128% above the median base salary for Content Creator roles in the United States ($72K).

Content Creator median pay in the United States

$72K/yr

Most pay falls between $58K and $82K. Based on 115 salaries.

See all Microsoft salaries

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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Senior Content Creator

Microsoft · Redmond, WA · Hybrid