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Creative Technologist

Microsoft· UX Engineering
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA, New York, NY$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

The Creative Technologist connects design and engineering to translate concepts into interactive product experiences, ensuring storytelling is functional, accurate to the product, secure, visually refined, and ready for marketing across channels. They lead front-end design solutions, prototypes, tools, and UI systems to bring Microsoft commercial products to life and accelerate creative exploration within a cross-disciplinary marketing context.

Responsibilities

  • Build high-fidelity demonstrations, functional prototypes, and interactive experiences that accurately reflect Microsoft product behavior and strengthen product, brand, and marketing narratives.
  • Deliver film-ready and deployment-ready experiences for product videos, social content, web interactions, events, and keynote demonstrations across commercial marketing channels.
  • Translate ambiguous creative concepts into functional prototypes that accelerate learning, align stakeholders, and enable confident creative and production decisions.
  • Shape cohesive end-to-end experiences with motion designers, visual designers, producers, and creative directors, establishing a high bar for visual craft, interaction quality, and technical execution.
  • Ensure product accuracy and technical feasibility by partnering with product marketing, engineering, and product teams throughout concept development, prototyping, validation, and production.
  • Integrate emerging technologies, including AI-powered tools, browser-based interactivity, real-time engines, code-driven animation, plug-ins, and APIs, to create new storytelling formats and accelerate creative workflows.
  • Scale successful storytelling solutions across teams and channels by establishing reusable patterns, documenting technical approaches, and maintaining shared prototype and tooling libraries.

Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Creative development and prototyping technologies
Nice to have:Portfolio demonstrating visual and interaction craftProduct demonstrations / interactive storytelling for enterprise techGenerative AI / foundation models familiarity
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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