At Microsoft, we’re building a modern, AI-forward marketing organization that learns faster, activates smarter, and drives measurable impact. Our approach blends human creativity with AI-powered insights to fuel bold, culturally inspired creative strategies at scale. We prioritize outcomes over outputs, embrace rapid learning loops, and operate in agile flight formations that unite disciplines across Commercial Brand, Creative, and Customer Marketing.
The Design Studio is the central design team supporting Microsoft’s Commercial portfolio. The team builds and stewards global Commercial brands and their creative expression across the customer journey, partnering closely with Brand Strategy, Global Marketing, and Integrated Creative teams. We set a high craft bar and continuously improve how Commercial creative is developed, produced, and delivered.
As a Creative Producer in the Design Studio, you will translate creative vision into executable production across visual identity development, design systems, toolkits, asset libraries, photography, motion, and video. You will partner with creative directors, brand strategists, designers, Studio Operations, agencies, and production vendors to assemble and lead cross-functional teams from brief through final delivery. You will own scope, schedules, budgets, review cycles, and production quality while applying AI-enabled workflows that make the Studio faster, more consistent, and more scalable.
The ideal candidate combines production craft, commercial judgment, clear communication, and calm decision-making. You operate effectively in ambiguity, anticipate needs before they become blockers, and bring viable options and recommendations when budgets, timelines, or direction change.
At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth-mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress across people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.
Responsibilities
Translate creative briefs into actionable production strategies, scopes, schedules, deliverable plans, technical specifications, staffing models, and definitions of success for brand and marketing initiatives.
Lead cross-functional production from concept through final delivery, partnering with creative directors, brand strategists, designers, Studio Operations, internal stakeholders, agencies, and production vendors to align teams and maintain momentum.
Own production schedules, estimates, budgets, bids, statements of work, purchase orders, milestones, approvals, and deliverable tracking across multiple concurrent projects, surfacing risk early and recommending tradeoffs that protect quality, timing, and cost.
Plan and deliver visual identity systems, toolkits, asset libraries, photography, motion, and video production, ensuring final assets meet brand, accessibility, legal, rights, licensing, responsible AI, and channel requirements.
Lead project kickoffs, stakeholder updates, reviews, and approval cycles; consolidate complex inputs into clear, actionable feedback and maintain shared understanding of decisions, ownership, dependencies, and next steps.
Apply Copilot and approved generative AI tools to briefing, previsualization, review summaries, stakeholder communications, production tracking, variation, and versioning while documenting provenance and following responsible AI standards.
Improve Studio operations by leading retrospectives, documenting learnings, and building reusable prompts, templates, workflows, naming conventions, and delivery practices across Workfront, SharePoint, AEM, and other shared systems.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree or Certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Communications or related art field AND 4+ years experience in art design or a related art field working on computer games or entertainment. OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
6+ years of experience producing brand and marketing creative in an in-house studio, agency, production company, or comparable environment.
Experience managing complex, cross-functional creative productions through the full development lifecycle, including scope, schedules, budgets, vendors, reviews, approvals, and final delivery.
Experience producing brand or marketing creative across multiple formats such as visual identity systems, toolkits, asset libraries, photography, motion, video, or campaign content.
Experience evaluating creative quality and translating feedback from multiple stakeholders into clear, actionable direction for creative teams and production partners.
Experience managing production budgets, estimates, bids, statements of work, purchase orders, change control, and vendor relationships.
Working knowledge of brand governance, accessibility, legal review, talent and usage rights, licensing, and organized asset delivery.
End-to-end photo and video production experience, including estimating, bidding, crewing, casting, permitting, talent rights and usage, shoot-day management, post-production, and delivery.
Experience developing or rolling out visual identity systems, design systems, toolkits, templates, and asset libraries across global teams or channels.
Demonstrated use of Copilot, generative AI, or automation in production workflows to improve creative quality, speed, consistency, or operational efficiency.
Working proficiency with Workfront, SharePoint, Teams, AEM, digital asset management systems, and creative review and approval tools.
Experience balancing fast-turn production with complex, high-visibility brand work in a matrixed organization.
Written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships, lead difficult conversations, and escalate issues with context, options, and a recommendation.
Art IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Communications, or a related art field, plus 4+ years of experience in art design or a related art field working on computer games or entertainment; equivalent experience accepted.
- 6+ years producing brand and marketing creative in an in-house studio, agency, production company, or comparable environment.
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional creative productions through scope, scheduling, budgeting, vendor coordination, reviews, approvals, and final delivery.
- Experience producing brand or marketing creative across visual identity systems, toolkits, asset libraries, photography, motion, video, or campaign content.
- Experience evaluating creative quality and translating stakeholder feedback into actionable direction.
- Experience managing production budgets, estimates, bids, statements of work, purchase orders, change control, and vendor relationships.
- Working knowledge of brand governance, accessibility, legal review, talent and usage rights, licensing, and organized asset delivery.
- End-to-end photo and video production experience, including estimating, bidding, crewing, casting, permitting, talent rights, shoot-day management, post-production, and delivery.
- Experience developing or rolling out visual identity systems, design systems, toolkits, templates, and asset libraries across global teams or channels.
- Demonstrated use of Copilot, generative AI, or automation in production workflows.
- Working proficiency with Workfront, SharePoint, Teams, AEM, digital asset management systems, and creative review and approval tools.
- Experience balancing fast-turn production with complex, high-visibility brand work in a matrixed organization.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, stakeholder relationship-building, difficult conversation leadership, and contextual escalation with recommendations.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
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