Associate Creative Director, Copy

Overview

Microsoft’s Creative, Advertising & Integrated Marketing team is looking for an ACD Advertising to join our team supporting Windows, Devices and Services.

You are first and foremost an advertising creative: a conceptual thinker and storyteller who knows how to turn strategy and product truth into ideas people notice and remember. You’ll help create paid media and advertising campaigns for some of Microsoft’s most recognized products and services.

This is a hands-on creative role. You’ll concept big campaign ideas, write scripts, develop headlines and messaging systems, and work closely with art directors, designers, producers, strategists, and agency partners to bring ideas from the first sketch to the finished work.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop original advertising concepts and paid media messaging platforms for Windows, Surface devices, and Services.
• Create scripts for television commercials, online films, social content, product films, and other forms of branded storytelling.
• Create sharp, memorable headlines and copy for advertising, banners, social, OOH, and campaign extensions.
• Translate strategy, consumer insights, and product truths into simple, compelling creative ideas.
• Concept in close partnership with art directors and designers, building ideas together rather than treating copy and visuals as separate disciplines.
• Help define campaign narratives, messaging architectures, naming, taglines, and creative platforms.
• Develop social-first ideas that are native to the culture, behavior, and formats of each platform.
• Present creative concepts clearly and persuasively to creative leadership, marketing partners, senior stakeholders, and external agencies.
• Partner with producers, directors, editors, designers, and production teams throughout film and content production.
• Guide work through development and production while protecting the core idea and raising the level of craft.
• Collaborate with external advertising agencies and production partners, helping establish a clear creative vision and ensuring the work meets a high creative standard.
• Work across multiple projects and timelines while maintaining clarity, originality, and attention to craft.

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Arts, Humanities, Digital Communications, UX Design, Human Computer Interaction, Communications, English, Journalism, or related field AND 2+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Arts, Humanities, Digital Communications, UX Design, Human Computer Interaction, Communications, English, Journalism, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design, copywriting, technical writing, writing (e.g. for marketing, advertising, e-commerce), brand design, or brand marketing
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong professional experience in advertising and paid media, ideally within a leading advertising agency, in-house consumer creative organization, or both.
• A portfolio demonstrating outstanding conceptual advertising and consumer paid media campaign work.
• Demonstrated experience scripting television commercials, branded films, online video, and social content.
• Exceptional headline-writing skills across digital advertising, banners, OOH, and short-form social formats.
• Experience developing integrated campaign ideas that extend naturally across multiple channels.
• Strong understanding of advertising strategy, storytelling, culture, and consumer behavior.
• Experience concepting collaboratively with art directors, designers, and multidisciplinary creative teams.

Content 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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.

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