Senior Creative Designer

A Microsoft Design storytelling and envisioning team is seeking a Senior Creative Designer to bring stories to life. Your work will span internal and external audiences, impacting both our Microsoft Design channels (website and social media) and internal teams imagining the future of Copilot.

Externally, as the Senior Creative Designer for Microsoft Design's public presence, your role blends content creation with art direction and story ideation-vibrantly conveying our design culture and products to creative professionals and tech enthusiasts. Internally, you will partner with a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary UX team working on both back-end infrastructure (i.e. model tuning and training) and front-end interactions (i.e. generative UI) for Copilot. As a Senior Creative Designer, you will help translate future visions and complex technical concepts into human-centric visual narratives that generate clarity, buy-in, and excitement for a positive vision of the future of work.

Our ideal candidate is a visual tastemaker and communicator who is deeply curious about and regularly experiments with AI. You're a self-starter comfortable working in nebulous spaces, a pleasure to collaborate with, and possess a broad range of design skills. As for the team you'll be joining, we're a small, scrappy, and highly impactful group of creatives who try our best to be the people our pets think we are. We care deeply about each other's wellbeing and cultivating a culture where everyone feels inspired, empowered, and supported. As a unique role, we're looking for a unique candidate! If this sounds like you, we'd love for you to apply.

• Multidisciplinary design: create visual narratives and imagery across 2D, 3D, illustration, graphics, motion, and video, supporting Microsoft Design storytelling across the website, social channels, blogs, and other digital platforms.
• Build and steward cross-channel visual systems and libraries that improve consistency, efficiency, and storytelling quality across web, social, mobile, video, and presentations.
• Leverage your abilities as a tastemaker to set the artistic direction for Microsoft Design's external platforms (website + social media).
• Provide art direction and coaching for illustrators and visual artists we partner with.
• Produce lightweight motion assets or storyboards to support video content and story concepts.
• Maintain high creative standards rooted in Microsoft's brand, design language, and accessibility guidelines, ensuring visual content is user-centered and inclusive.

  Skills and Qualities

  • You're a conceptual thinker with a passion for visual storytelling.
  • You're not afraid of deeply technical spaces and can translate complex ideas into compelling visuals.
  • You hold a high bar for quality, craft, and execution.
  • You excel at cross-org collaboration to uplift and combine the best of what's happening already. You enjoy communal creative processes and give and receive feedback kindly and honestly.
  • You can work quickly when needed, meeting deadlines with tight turnarounds.
  • You experiment with AI tools to supercharging workflows or amplify your creative abilities
  • You're scrappy! You're very comfortable wearing multiple hats, working at altitudes spanning ideation to execution, and creating outsized impact within limited budgets.
  • You can independently manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.
  • You can identify emerging design trends and help set new ones to establish thought leadership.

• Work collaboratively with a high performing team of writers, producers, and product makers to translate technology concepts into visual narratives.
• Suggest original stories based on a keen sense of design trends and industry topics and review forthcoming blogs to provide design-centric feedback, such as angles to better appeal to creative audiences.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Graphic Design, Communication Design, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Communication Design, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).

Preferred Qualifications:

• A portfolio demonstrating a high-quality of visual craft, conceptual thinking, and multidisciplinary design work.
• Fluency with Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects), Figma, PowerPoint.
• Comfort with 3D as a medium, using tools like Blender or C4D/Redshift and/or partnering with a 3D illustrator.
• Experience designing for digital surfaces (web + social), presentations, and working with motion or video teams.
• Experience supporting editorial or narrative storytelling environments (newsrooms, branded content, creative studios).
• An understanding of the evolving tech and design landscape, particularly the intersection of AI and UX.
• Typographic sensibility and composition skills.
• Comfort working with AI-enabled tools and experimentation with new creative technologies.

Product Design IC4 - 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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.