Senior Designer

At Microsoft were building a modern AI-forward marketing organization that learns faster activates smarter and drives measurable impact. Our approach blends human creativity with AI-powered insights to fuel bold culturally inspired creative strategies at scale. We prioritize outcomes over outputs embrace rapid learning loops andoperatein agile flight formations that unite disciplines across Commercial Brand Creative and Customer Marketing. As a Senior Designer in the Engines & Experiences Design Studio you are the systems thinker behind how Microsofts commercial brands show up across customer partner media and marketer experiences. You take strategic priorities and turn them into creative systems identity type color motion layout component libraries that hold together across channels audiences and formats instead of being rebuilt campaign by campaign. This role asks for depth in visual design brand identity and social storytelling and an unusually high bar for craft. Youll define and evolve the visual language of our commercial brands so every touchpoint is intentional refined and emotionally resonant then package it into guidelines and toolkits that let internal teams and agency partners produce on-brand work without you in the room. Youll also bring fluency in AI-enhanced creative workflows using modern tools to accelerate ideation prototyping and production and to make the system itself faster to apply. Youll partner deeply across marketing product and engineering mentor designers on the team and represent the studio in the forums where creative direction gets set. At Microsoft our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted impactful solutions. With a growthmindset culture we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress people teams and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape whats next for everyone.

Translate strategic goals into scalable creative systems identity typography color motion and component libraries that drive brand consistency across campaigns platforms and social channels.

Lead visual design direction for a portfolio of initiatives spanning customer partner media and marketer audiences holding the quality bar from concept through final delivery.

Define and evolve brand identity systems for Microsofts commercial brands so they read clearly and resonate with global audiences across digital experiential and social surfaces.

Build and maintain brand guidelines and toolkits that empower internal teams and external agencies to produce on-brand work at volume without per-asset oversight.

Integrate AI tools into creative workflows ideation prototyping variation and production and establish the reusable prompts styles and pipelines the studio builds on.

Partner with marketing product and engineering to turn complex technology into creative that simplifies and elevates the customer experience and fold campaign data and audience insight back into how the system evolves.

Mentor designers and give clear actionable feedback in reviews; provide direction to the Art team internally and externally and lead partner reviews to align on vision.

Represent the Design Studio in strategic forums advocating for design excellence and user-centered thinking and manage assets responsibly tagging with sensitivity labels and optimizing secure access-controlled storage.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree or Certificate in Design Fine Arts Human Computer Interaction Visual Communications or related field AND 8 years experience in art design or a related art field working on computer games or entertainment OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

10 years of experience in brand design art direction or creative leadership OR equivalent experience.

A portfolio demonstrating excellence in visual design brand identity and social storytelling including at least one design or identity system you defined and scaled.

Demonstrated systems thinking: evidence of building reusable creative frameworks guidelines or toolkits that other people successfully produced work from.

Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma including component and library architecture.

Demonstrated use of AI tools in shipped creative work ideation generation or production.

Experience leading creative work across disciplines in a fast-paced matrixed environment and giving direct actionable feedback to other designers.

Experience building scalable design systems that span digital experiential and social platforms and governing them as they grow.

Deep fluency with AI tools for design content generation and workflow optimization including establishing model-assisted production pipelines others reuse.

Experience integrating campaign data audience insights and performance signals into creative operations and system decisions.

Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills; able to inspire and influence at all levels of the organization.

Track record of delivering impactful work inside organizations of significant scale and complexity including directing external agencies and production partners.

Experience mentoring designers and shipping 2 major campaigns brands or products end to end.

Art IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $296400 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 $188000 - $331200 per year.

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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.

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