Senior Content Creator

Overview

At Microsoft, we're 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, and operate in agile flight formations that unite disciplines across Commercial Brand, Creative, and Customer Marketing. The Creator & Fandom team is looking for a Senior Content Creator to own the end-to-end creation of social video that helps Microsoft products, people, and priority moments connect with audiences. This is a full-stack, hands-on creator role for someone who can turn a brief or opportunity into a relevant social concept, shape the story, plan and lead production, shoot, record product demos, edit, and deliver platform-ready assets with speed, craft, and sound creative judgment.

You'll create social video across Employee Generated Content, product demos, brand and product announcement videos, live-event social capture, and tentpole and campaign social. You'll work directly with employees, executives, subject-matter experts, creators, product marketers, brand teams, and social channel owners to translate product truth and cultural moments into clear, engaging stories built for social platforms. The role requires creator instincts, practical production leadership, and the ability to independently move work from concept through final delivery while bringing in lightweight production or editing support when needed.

Responsibilities

• Concept, shoot, and edit social video for Employee Generated Content, product demos, brand and product announcements, live events, and tentpole or campaign moments.
• Own projects end-to-end: brief and concept story and script pre-production shoot and demo capture edit stakeholder review final platform-ready delivery.
• Create platform-native social video in vertical, square, and horizontal formats while maintaining visual, audio, pacing, accessibility, and brand standards.
• Partner closely with Creator & Fandom, Social, Brand, Product Marketing, and subject-matter experts to translate product truth and business priorities into compelling social stories.
• Direct and support employees, executives, creators, and internal partners on camera to deliver authentic, clear, performance-ready content.
• Lead boots-on-the-ground social capture for launches, tentpoles, campaigns, and live events, identifying and producing timely stories in fast-moving environments.
• Build product demonstrations into social video by planning the narrative, capturing the required screens or workflows, and integrating demos clearly into the final edit.
• Manage footage, project files, review rounds, and final deliverables, and engage freelance or lightweight production support when the scope requires it.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 3+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience creating end-to-end video content for digital or social platforms, including concepting, producing, shooting, and editing, or equivalent experience.
• A portfolio demonstrating a range of social storytelling across Employee Generated Content, demos, product or brand announcements, events, campaigns, or related formats.
• Experience shooting video with DSLR, mirrorless, mobile, or hybrid setups and working hands-on with lighting, audio, and basic production equipment.
• Proficiency with post-production tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, CapCut, Final Cut, or similar.
• Deep understanding of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and how hooks, pacing, duration, framing, captions, and storytelling adapt across platforms.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple fast-moving workstreams, and collaborate fluidly across creative, social, product, and marketing teams.
• Experience producing and integrating product demonstrations, screen recordings, motion graphics, captions, and other supporting visual elements.
• Experience coordinating small crews, freelancers, or agency partners while remaining hands-on throughout production and post-production.

Integrated Marketing IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 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.