Director of Creative Production

Microsofts Creative Advertising & Integrated Marketing team is looking for a Director of Creative Production to help shape and deliver breakthrough advertising campaigns across Windows Surface and Services. This is a role for someone who thrives at playing a critical role at the intersection of strategy creativity and execution. Youll lead the production from initial concept through final delivery partnering with internal creative teams external agencies production partners and business stakeholders to bring ambitious ideas to life. The work spans high profile advertising campaigns hardware launches films photography social and creators. Success in this role requires exceptional production expertise strong creative instincts and the ability to navigate ambiguity while maintaining the highest standards of craft. Were looking for someone who knows how great advertising and creative gets made who has built trusted relationships across the production ecosystem and who can assemble the right team for a given challenge. This role will influence the work not simply manage it helping teams make better creative decisions while ensuring ideas are executed at the highest level.

• Lead the end-to-end production of integrated campaigns across advertising film photography digital social experiential.
• Partner with creative teams and agencies from concept development through launch helping bring ambitious ideas to life while maintaining the integrity of the creative vision.
• Identify and engage the right directors DPs photographers production companies editors creators and specialist partners for each assignment.
• Build and manage relationships with world-class production partners and vendors ensuring every project is staffed with the right talent and expertise.
• Translate strategic and creative briefs into production plans that elevate the work while delivering against business objectives.
• Serve as the primary bridge between internal stakeholders creative teams agencies and production partners throughout the lifecycle of a campaign.
• Lead production planning budgeting bidding scheduling contracting and delivery across concurrent campaigns and projects.
• Own creative quality throughout production and post-production ensuring execution delivers against the ambition of the idea.
• Bring informed perspective and constructive challenge when production approaches or creative solutions are not meeting expectations.
• Lead production reviews synthesize feedback and drive clear decisions that improve the work while maintaining momentum.
• Anticipate production risks and solve problems proactively without compromising creative quality.
• Ensure all work meets Microsoft standards for brand accessibility legal and global market requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• 6 years experience in professional production environment (e.g. lighting shooting audio recording web production writing) post-production environment or broadcasting (e.g. local news)
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years experience in end-to-end production. Award-winning or viral film and TV advertising.
• Proficient in production tools and emerging AI-enhanced workflows.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication storytelling and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent project management and communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced high-volume collaborative environment
• Experience working with internal creative teams freelancers and productions houses
• Experience with budgeting scheduling workforce allocation and vendor coordination

Video Production IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 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 - $304200 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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