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Art Director

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Hybrid (Redmond), Hybrid (New York), Hybrid (Mountain View)$102.1k - $202.2kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Microsoft is seeking an Art Director to bring commercial marketing to life through visual storytelling, social-first ideas, and creator-led content. The role blends strategy with hands-on execution, working across integrated campaigns, social platforms, creator partnerships, and digital experiences to drive engagement and business impact.

Responsibilities

  • Develop visual concepts and creative solutions for integrated marketing campaigns, with a particular focus on social-first, creator-led, and culturally relevant work.
  • Partner with writers, strategists, social and creator leads, and marketers to translate briefs into compelling ideas and platform-native executions.
  • Art direct creator partnerships, content captures, productions, photography, video, motion, and editorial shoots to ensure strategic alignment and a high level of craft.
  • Create visual languages, design systems, storyboards, layouts, and campaign assets that can scale across social, digital, video, experiential, and emerging formats.
  • Apply audience insights, platform behaviors, cultural trends, and brand standards to inform creative decisions and strengthen relevance.
  • Adapt integrated campaign ideas for channels including LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging platforms without losing the core creative idea.
  • Present concepts and creative rationale clearly to partners and stakeholders, incorporating feedback while protecting the integrity of the work.
  • Collaborate with internal production teams, creators, and external agencies to deliver work with consistency, efficiency, and creative excellence.
  • Use AI-enabled creative tools and workflows across ideation, image and video generation, iteration, and production, and share repeatable learnings with the broader team.
  • Create and produce select content end-to-end, from concept through final execution, particularly for social, creator, executive, and rapid-response opportunities.
  • Develop storyboards, social assets, presentations, motion explorations, and lightweight creative directly using modern design and AI-powered tools.
  • Operate as both an art director and maker, moving fluidly between concepting, directing, prototyping, and hands-on content creation.
  • Contribute to a culture of craft, curiosity, experimentation, and constructive creative feedback.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications, Human Computer Interaction, or a related art field AND 2+ years of experience in art, design, advertising, content creation, or a related creative field, OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in art direction, visual design, advertising, social content, or related creative disciplines.

Skills

Required:Visual storytellingArt directionSocial-first content
Nice to have:AI-enabled design tools

Benefits

  • Benefits information referenced in the job description is available at the provided Microsoft careers URL.
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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