Mountain View, United States; Redmond, United States
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Microsoft’s Creative, Advertising & Integrated Marketing team seeks an Associate Creative Director (ACD) Advertising to support Windows, Devices, and Services. The role involves conceptualizing advertising campaigns, writing scripts, developing headlines and messaging, and collaborating with art directors, designers, producers, strategists, and agencies. Responsibilities include developing original advertising concepts, creating scripts for various media, crafting headlines and copy, translating strategy into creative ideas, partnering with creative teams, defining campaign narratives, developing social-first ideas, presenting concepts to stakeholders, guiding production, and collaborating with external agencies. Required qualifications include a relevant degree with 2-3+ years experience in product/service design, copywriting, or brand marketing, or equivalent experience. Preferred qualifications include strong advertising and paid media experience, a portfolio of campaign work, scripting experience, headline-writing skills, integrated campaign development, and collaborative concepting experience. Salary ranges from $119,800 to $234,700 annually in the U.S., with higher ranges in the San Francisco Bay and New York City areas.
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Mountain View, United States; Redmond, United States
Full-time
Develop original advertising concepts and paid media messaging platforms for Windows, Surface devices, and Services
Create scripts for television commercials, online films, social content, product films, and other forms of branded storytelling
Create sharp, memorable headlines and copy for advertising, banners, social, OOH, and campaign extensions
Translate strategy, consumer insights, and product truths into simple, compelling creative ideas
Concept in close partnership with art directors and designers, building ideas together rather than treating copy and visuals as separate disciplines
Help define campaign narratives, messaging architectures, naming, taglines, and creative platforms
Develop social-first ideas that are native to the culture, behavior, and formats of each platform
Present creative concepts clearly and persuasively to creative leadership, marketing partners, senior stakeholders, and external agencies
Partner with producers, directors, editors, designers, and production teams throughout film and content production
Guide work through development and production while protecting the core idea and raising the level of craft
Collaborate with external advertising agencies and production partners, helping establish a clear creative vision and ensuring the work meets a high creative standard
Work across multiple projects and timelines while maintaining clarity, originality, and attention to craft
Requirements
Master's Degree in Arts, Humanities, Digital Communications, UX Design, Human Computer Interaction, Communications, English, Journalism, or related field AND 2+ years experience working in product or service design
OR Bachelor's Degree in Arts, Humanities, Digital Communications, UX Design, Human Computer Interaction, Communications, English, Journalism, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design, copywriting, technical writing, writing (e.g. for marketing, advertising, e-commerce), brand design, or brand marketing
OR equivalent experience
Strong professional experience in advertising and paid media, ideally within a leading advertising agency, in-house consumer creative organization, or both
A portfolio demonstrating outstanding conceptual advertising and consumer paid media campaign work
Demonstrated experience scripting television commercials, branded films, online video, and social content
Exceptional headline-writing skills across digital advertising, banners, OOH, and short-form social formats
Experience developing integrated campaign ideas that extend naturally across multiple channels
Strong understanding of advertising strategy, storytelling, culture, and consumer behavior
Experience concepting collaboratively with art directors, designers, and multidisciplinary creative teams
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensationAdditional benefits and pay information available at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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