Creative Director

What you'll do

• 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
• Stay ahead of emerging creative technologies, platforms, and cultural trends, and bring that perspective into the work
• Present creative work, strategy, and rationale to senior stakeholders, including CVP- and VP-level partners
• Partner with the GM, Global Creative and peer Creative Directors to ensure creative coherence, resource alignment, and shared priorities across the team

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)
• 10+ years of experience in a senior creative role at an in-house creative organization, top-tier advertising agency, or comparable organization
• Portfolio demonstrating breakthrough creative work across brand advertising, content, and digital with clear evidence of range, craft, and impact at scale
• Proven ability to lead concept-through-delivery on complex, multi-channel campaigns
• Experience managing project budgets and articulating creative rationale and ROI to senior stakeholders
• Executive communication and influencing skills, with experience presenting to VP- and CVP-level leadership
• Experience inside an in-house creative organization at a global technology or consumer brand company
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools into creative workflows in a meaningful and responsible way
• Background spanning both brand marketing and advertising creative disciplines
• Experience working alongside agency partners in hybrid internal/external models
• Advanced degree in design, marketing, communications, or a related field

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