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SalaryExercise your leadership abilities along with your creative expertise as Executive Creative Director of our newly formed Digital Storytelling Lab. You will lead a team of creative strategists and help us light up the digital experiences that support how customers discover, learn about, and buy commercial services from Microsoft. If you are a creative, resourceful data-driven leader with a desire to bring our brand to life and deliver amazing experiences, apply today!
As an Executive Creative Director (ECD) of our Digital Storytelling Lab, you will be leading the establishment of a new team. Its charter is to drive high quality creative outputs, in the creation of customer-centric marketing assets. This team will work in close partnership with our channels (web, social, paid, etc) to understand creative asset needs, and will work with our agency partners to execute outstanding creative solutions. Your team will also work with integrated marketing teams, getting input on creative asset needs and leading executions cross-channel. You’ll be accountable for the establishment and running of a fast-paced, strategic and highly collaborative studio. Your creative output will include assets that deliver on our digital marketing campaigns, like core campaign concepts, video content, visual graphics, long-form ebooks, and much more.
Our Team:
The Global Demand Center (GDC) within the Commercial Marketing organization is leading the marketing transformation of Microsoft’s largest and fastest growing commercial businesses. We are a fast-paced group with global stakeholders. We put a focus on getting things done, simplifying anything and everything, and having fun doing it. You will be in the middle of it all helping to make decisions that impact our resources, timelines, and global digital experiences.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
Who you are:
Experienced leader. You have demonstrated experience coaching and developing a creative, strategic, data-driven, results-oriented, innovative, and inclusive team. You have the flexibility to manage creatives, strategists, and program managers, as well as harness the best from creative agencies and other partners.
Exceptional creative talent. You’ve done it all—business to business and consumer, ads to web—and have the portfolio to prove it. You know how to manage agencies for the best outputs, and you understand how to design process and nurture people for the maximum creative innovation.
Collaborator. You can work in highly-matrixed organizations across marketing, engineering, and business operations, taking others’ perspectives with an open mind.
Audience-obsessed. You’re laser-focused on your audience and their needs and interests.
Other
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years experience leading agency or corporate brand management/design/marketing.
- 10+ years in a creative role AND a certification, degree, or training in Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications, or related field OR equivalent experience.
- 10+ years experience working from briefs and translating creative direction and messaging into compelling creative
- 5+ years in a people leadership role, including roles managing people outside the creative discipline.
Preferred Qualifications (PQs)
- Master's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications,
- OR related field.
- 10+ years creative strategy experience, which could include brief writing and/or managing strategy on the corporate or agency side.
- 10+ years experience managing projects (e.g., internal stakeholder management, timelines, prioritization, road mapping).
- 5+ years direct people management experience.
- 5+ years experience in a technology-related content domain/area, preferably cloud computing concepts.
- 2+ years experience in a technology-related content domain/area.
- Expertise in digital marketing and creative execution for a consistent customer journey across the range of digital channels.
- Experience using data to innovate on creative outputs
- Ability to work under constant deadline pressure and manage multiple projects across multiple teams with grace and flexibility.
- Experience and demonstrated success marketing to developers, pre-sales, and executive audiences in the technology industry.
- Understanding of the creative process and the ability to work collaboratively to land the best concepts and executions for customers
Brand M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $152,300 - $266,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $194,800 - $292,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
