Motion Creative Director

40 Minutes ago • 6-8 Years • Product Design • $137,600 PA - $294,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Microsoft is seeking a Motion Creative Director to lead the design vision and execution for their AI companion, Copilot. This player/coach role requires both strategic direction and hands-on motion design expertise. Responsibilities include driving the development of world-class AI applications across various platforms (Copilot, Edge, Bing, Windows, Mobile), understanding user needs, managing product development, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of user experience, design thinking, and data-driven decision-making, along with experience in branding, marketing, and working collaboratively with multiple teams. The position requires a passion for crafting magical user experiences within Microsoft's design principles, prioritizing quality, simplicity, safety, and kindness.
Must have:
  • 8+ years experience in product/service design OR Master's degree and 6+ years experience
  • 5+ years motion design experience
  • 4+ years creative direction experience
  • Experience collaborating with multiple teams
  • Ability to create and tell compelling stories across the design portfolio
Good to have:
  • Experience working with branding, marketing, and product design teams

Job Details

Overview

We are inventing an AI Companion for Everyone – a superintelligent entity with personality and emotional intelligence that’s always in your corner. This is a rare opportunity to be a part of a team crafting something that challenges everything we know about software and consumer products. 

 

Who are we? We’re a small, friendly, fast-moving team, supporting one another to do the best work of our lives, always looking to break new ground with an undying dedication to the user. We are proud of what we build, how we build it, and that our products define the AI era while earning the trust of our users. We run lean, obsess about users, prioritize quality and polish, and always root our decisions in research and evidence. We ship regularly, so your work will have real and immediate impact.  

 

Our Core Values: 

  • Quality. We only deliver category-defining products that delight with their ease of use, guaranteed reliability, and beautiful, coherent design.    
  • Simplicity. We don’t overcomplicate. Less is more, always.    
  • Safety & Security. The highest standards of security, safety and responsibility are non-negotiable across all our business areas.    
  • Evaluation. We pay close attention to signals and aren’t afraid to change course when data and our experience tells us to. We are also careful with our metrics, focusing on delivering long-term sustainable value (rather than short-term KPIs).  
  • Kindness. Kindness is at the heart of our org and how we conduct ourselves. We care for, and support and respect one another, beginning again and learning every day. 

 

We’re on the lookout for a talented and passionate Motion Creative Director to help build the next wave of capabilities of our personal AI companion, Copilot. We're looking for someone who has experience and passion for driving the end-to-end process of setting design vision and execution for innovative zero-to-one consumer products. We’re looking for someone with an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness, in addition to being highly effective. The right candidate takes the initiative and enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment.  This is a player/coach role. In addition to setting vision and direction, the ideal candidate can execute craft at pace within our design principles. 

 

Our Design Principles: 

  • Create Magical Moments 
  • Guide the Journey 
  • Personality is Pivotal 
  • Always be Earning Trust 
  • Sweat the Details 
  • Be in Service to People 

   

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

 

By applying to this U.S. Mountain View, CA position, you are required to be local to the San Francisco area and in office 3 days a week.  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design

    • OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design

    • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • 5+ years' experience in motion design. 
  • 4+ years' experience in creative direction.  
  • Experience working with branding, marketing and product design teams. 
  • Proven experience working collaboratively with multiple teams. 
  • Ability to create and tell stories broadly, across the entire portfolio. 

Product Design IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 15th, 2025.

 



#Copilot #MicrosoftAI

 

Responsibilities

  • Drive building world-class AI applications that will delight consumers across Copilot, Edge, Bing, Windows and Mobile.   
  • Own a product area and be responsible for understanding user needs and behaviors, defining product requirements, managing end-to-end product development, launches and iterations.  
  • Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.   
  • Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.  
  • Translate business goals into strategy, user experience and technical requirements in close collaboration with UX designers and AI model training teams.  
  • Define goals and performance indicators, set up and oversee experiments, measure success with data and research.  
  • Collaborate effectively and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to build exceptional consumer-grade applications.  
  • Embody our  and . 

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