Microsoft · 1 week ago
Group Creative Director
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$163K/yr - $296K/yr
7+ years expMicrosoft is seeking a Group Creative Director to lead creative initiatives across its portfolio of brands, including Copilot, Windows, and Surface devices. This role involves inspiring cross-functional teams to deliver compelling marketing stories and managing multiple creative projects effectively.
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Responsibilities
Guide the inhouse Creative Directors, Design Directors, artists and editors, as well as external production houses
Partner closely with the Advertising team and Commercial Integrated Marketing teams to drive cohesion across the business
Work closely with the channel teams, integrated marketing, and comms teams to deliver meaningful creative for each channel activation
Interpret quant and qual insights from a variety of sources, including close partnership with Creative Strategists to identify the underlying red-thread that will inform the creative territories and platform
Articulate the strategic and creative approach to a variety of stakeholders, championing the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ for our marketing approach
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 7+ 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 9+ 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)
7+ years experience as a leader in the creative space, managing team(s), and operating as a Group, or Executive Creative Director
7+ years experience in online consumption behavior, storytelling trends, and algorithmic differences across social networks
7+ years experience storytelling: an innate understanding of the importance of narrative, across everything from internal presentations to compelling consumer-facing creative
3+ years experience with AI tools and the role they can play in the creative process
5+ years leading concurrent, multi‑workstream 360° brand campaigns for large product portfolios, owning the creative ideation /platform/campaign architecture
Preferred
Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 12+ 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 15+ 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)
8+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process
8+ years experience developing unifying brand narratives and creative platforms, and translating those platforms into digital creative executions
8+ years experience of storytelling/narrative structure, pacing, graphics, music, shot selection and all key aspects of audio-visual content
Company
Microsoft
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