At Microsoft, we are building a modern, AI-forward marketing organization that learns faster, activates smarter, and creates work that earns attention. The Commercial Creative and Production team develops advertising and social content that brings Microsoft's brand, products, and stories to life across platforms, formats, and audiences.
The Social Creative Producer is an individual contributor who owns the production process for integrated advertising content and social-first creative. You will take assignments from brief through delivery, connecting creative ambition to clear scopes, schedules, budgets, partners, approvals, and production plans.
You will work comfortably as part of our in-house agency as a leader, collaborating with creative directors, in house creator teams, strategists, marketers, social leads, procurement, legal partners, external agencies, production companies, and post-production vendors. You know how strong creative is made and know who to bring to the table to get it done. You protect the idea while managing the practical details required to deliver it.
The role requires familiarity with line production and the full content-production lifecycle, including bidding, estimates, treatments, pre-production, crew and vendor coordination, shoot logistics, post-production, rights and clearances, versioning, and final delivery. You do not need to serve as the line producer on every assignment, but you understand the work well enough to evaluate plans, identify risks, and partner effectively with specialists.
Key outcomes include high-quality advertising and social content delivered on brief, on time, and within approved budget; production plans that match the creative opportunity and channel needs; clear communication and documentation; responsible management of partners and resources; and reusable production practices that help the team move faster without lowering the craft bar.
At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers and one another. With a growth-mindset culture, we innovate responsibly, collaborate with care, and measure success through shared progress across people, teams, and customers.
Responsibilities
Integrated advertising and social production
Own assigned advertising and social projects from brief through final delivery, creating a clear production approach for each channel, format, audience, and market.
Translate creative concepts into executable scopes, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, and production pathways while preserving the core idea.
Anticipate dependencies and production risks early, present options and trade-offs, and keep partners aligned through timely decisions and communication.
Project planning and delivery
Build and maintain project plans that cover milestones, owners, approvals, reviews, deliverables, versioning, and launch dates.
Coordinate internal teams, agencies, production companies, freelance talent, and post-production partners to keep work moving and responsibilities clear.
Manage multiple concurrent assignments with sound judgment, adjusting plans as priorities, creative direction, platform needs, or production conditions change.
Social-first content production
Apply a working understanding of major social platforms, placements, aspect ratios, content behaviors, and publishing requirements to production planning.
Plan efficiently for modular content, cutdowns, adaptations, creator or influencer components, rapid-response opportunities, and channel-specific versions.
Use AI-enabled tools and automation responsibly to improve planning, documentation, versioning, and production workflow without compromising quality, security, or brand standards.
Production and on-set execution
Partner with line producers and production companies on bids, estimates, treatments, schedules, staffing, locations, equipment, logistics, and production-day requirements.
Review production plans for feasibility, appropriate resourcing, contingency coverage, and alignment with the approved creative, scope, schedule, and budget.
Support pre-production meetings, shoot preparation, production execution, and post-production handoff, escalating material issues with clear recommendations.
Maintain delivery specifications and organized handoffs so final assets, project files, documentation, and approved source materials are complete and reusable.
Budget, vendors, and business affairs
Develop and manage project budgets, estimates, purchase orders, statements of work, change orders, invoices, and reconciliations in partnership with finance and procurement.
Evaluate agency and vendor proposals for production value, completeness, schedule, cost, and risk, and support negotiations with appropriate partners.
Track budget status and scope changes throughout the project, maintaining accurate records and communicating variance before it becomes a delivery issue.
Quality, rights, and compliance
Build brand, legal, accessibility, privacy, localization, and platform reviews into the production schedule rather than treating them as final-stage checks.
Coordinate with business-affairs and legal partners on talent, music, intellectual property, releases, clearances, usage terms, and expiration requirements.
Collaboration and continuous improvement
Provide concise, accurate status reporting on scope, schedule, budget, risks, decisions, and delivery across the projects you own.
Capture production learnings and use them to improve future estimates, partner selection, workflows, templates, and delivery standards.
Production craft and team contribution
Bring strong production judgment, curiosity, accountability, and calm problem-solving to creative work that may move quickly or change direction.
Contribute practical guidance, templates, partner recommendations, and production knowledge that strengthen the broader producer community.
Build trusted relationships across creative, marketing, social, operations, finance, procurement, business affairs, legal, agencies, and production partners.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 1+ year(s) integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
5+ years of experience in advertising production, social-first content production, integrated production, post-production / video edit, related experience OR equivalent experience.
Production experience within an advertising agency, creative agency, production company, in-house brand or studio, or a combination of these environments.
Demonstrated ownership of creative projects from brief and scoping through production, post-production, approvals, versioning, and final delivery.
Familiarity with line-production practices, including production bidding, estimates, schedules, crew and vendor planning, locations, shoot logistics, insurance, permits, and wrap.
Experience producing content for major social platforms and managing multiple formats, cutdowns, aspect ratios, and deliverable specifications.
Experience managing project budgets, purchase orders, statements of work, change orders, invoices, and cost reconciliations.
Working knowledge of talent, music, intellectual-property, usage-rights, release, and clearance considerations in an advertising production context.
Written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present production plans, risks, options, and trade-offs clearly.
Experience collaborating with creative directors, designers, writers, strategists, marketers, social teams, agencies, production companies, and post-production partners.
Experience using work-management, review-and-approval, digital-asset-management, or AI-enabled production tools to improve workflow and delivery.
Integrated Marketing IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $86,100 - $169,800 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 $113,300 - $187,400 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 in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or a related field, plus at least 1 year of relevant integrated marketing, event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related experience; equivalent experience accepted.
- At least 5 years of experience in advertising production, social-first content production, integrated production, post-production, video editing, or related work.
- Experience in an advertising agency, creative agency, production company, in-house brand, studio, or combination of these environments.
- Experience owning creative projects from briefing and scoping through production, post-production, approvals, versioning, and final delivery.
- Familiarity with line-production practices, including bidding, estimates, schedules, crew and vendor planning, locations, shoot logistics, insurance, permits, and wrap.
- Experience producing content for major social platforms and managing multiple formats, cutdowns, aspect ratios, and deliverable specifications.
- Experience managing project budgets, purchase orders, statements of work, change orders, invoices, and cost reconciliations.
- Working knowledge of talent, music, intellectual property, usage rights, releases, and clearances in advertising production.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting production plans, risks, options, and trade-offs clearly.
- Experience collaborating with creative directors, designers, writers, strategists, marketers, social teams, agencies, production companies, and post-production partners.
- Experience using work-management, review-and-approval, digital-asset-management, or AI-enabled production tools.
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