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Senior Creative Traffic Manager

Microsoft· Integrated Marketing
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA$106.4k - $203.6kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Microsoft’s WDS Creative, Advertising & Integrated Marketing team seeks a Senior Creative Traffic Manager to act as the operational backbone of a high-volume, fast-paced creative organization, coordinating across producers, creatives, agency partners, and stakeholders to prioritize, staff, schedule, and deliver work efficiently.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a unified portfolio view of active and upcoming creative initiatives.
  • Create visibility into project status, priorities, resource allocation, key milestones, dependencies, and delivery risks.
  • Maintain the master schedule and operational cadence for the creative organization.
  • Ensure creative work progresses consistently through established workflow stages and governance checkpoints.
  • Develop dashboards, reporting, and planning mechanisms that provide leadership with real-time visibility into organizational health.
  • Create and maintain the master portfolio schedule and planning cadence for the creative organization.
  • Drive consistent workflow processes, project governance, and status reporting.
  • Surface delivery risks, bottlenecks, and resource constraints to leadership with clear mitigation recommendations.
  • Develop dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into team capacity, utilization, throughput, and delivery health.
  • Monitor utilization and proactively identify opportunities to improve efficiency and throughput.
  • Manage creative resource allocation across designers, art directors, writers, producers, agencies, and external partners.
  • Partner with team leads to understand skill sets, specialties, and capacity across the organization.
  • Balance workloads and proactively address resourcing gaps, conflicts, and over-allocation risks.
  • Forecast future staffing needs based on upcoming business priorities and campaign demand.
  • Partner closely with Creative Producers and Campaign Producers to ensure schedules are realistic and coordinated.
  • Collaborate with creative leadership to align staffing decisions with business priorities and skill requirements.
  • Coordinate with agency and vendor partners to ensure external resources are effectively integrated into planning.
  • Facilitate planning sessions, prioritization discussions, and portfolio reviews.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 3+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Portfolio planning and governance
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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