Group Creative Director

Microsoft’s Creative, Advertising & Integrated Marketing team seeks a Group Creative Director - Art & Film to lead creative vision and craft for advertising and video storytelling across Windows, Devices and Services. The role partners with cross-functional teams and agency partners to shape major campaigns and hero creative, informed by audience and performance insights and guided by world-class filmmaking judgment.

• Set the creative ambition for major Windows, Surface and Services advertising campaigns, launches and cultural moments, leading work from brief and insight through concept, script, production and final delivery.
• Originate and shape breakthrough ideas with Copywriters, Art Directors, Creative Directors and agency partners.
• Create work that can extend across film, social, digital, OOH, DOOH, retail and emerging formats.
• Lead creatively through production and post-production, protecting the strength of the idea while improving distinctiveness, surprise and craft.
• Hold ideas, storytelling and execution to world-class standards, knowing when exceptional craft elevates and when simplicity and restraint strengthen.

• Lead creative development of film and moving-image storytelling across live action, animation, motion design and VFX.
• Bring advanced judgment to narrative structure, shot selection, editorial rhythm and pacing, color and grade, music, sound design and finishing.
• Make clear creative decisions that shape emotional impact from concept through final delivery.

• Understand modern viewing behavior across broadcast, streaming, You Tube, social and emerging platforms.
• Use audience-retention curves, drop-off points, completion rates, qualitative research and other creative-performance signals to understand how audiences experience the work.
• Translate signals into creative hypotheses around openings, narrative clarity, pacing, product integration and emotional payoff.
• Balance evidence with creative instinct, using data to sharpen judgment rather than replace it.

• Partner with creative production leadership to identify and engage exceptional directors, production companies, cinematographers, editors, VFX artists, animators, composers and sound designers.
• Lead and mentor Creative Directors, Editors and Motion Graphics artists.
• Provide hands-on, specific creative direction that materially improves both the idea and its execution.
• Build a culture of rigorous critique focused on not only what should change, but why.
• Develop talent with deep expertise in advertising, filmmaking, art direction and motion storytelling.
• Champion ambitious ideas while knowing when subtraction, restraint and simplicity strengthen the work.

• Partner closely with creative leaders across copy, design, production, strategy, IMC and advertising to create work where idea, story, craft and brand expression reinforce one another.
• Collaborate with Creative Strategy to translate customer, cultural and business insight into creative opportunity.
• Work with creative production leadership across development, production and post to realize the creative ambition at the highest level of craft.
• Partner with Integrated Marketing, Advertising, Media, Product Marketing, Social, Retail and Communications to turn ideas into connected customer experiences.
• Present and defend creative work with senior leaders, articulating the central idea and the creative reasoning behind key executional decisions.

• Bachelor’s Degree or Certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Human Computer Interaction, Visual…