Creative Director, Experiential & Design

Microsoft’s Event Creative Experiences (ECE) Team mission is to design, ideate and architect creative experiences for Microsoft’s business-to-business events, which deliver value to our customers, build brand love and empower audiences to achieve more. We aim to drive operational excellence within the organization and deliver breakthrough creative programming for Microsoft’s flagship event portfolio around the globe.

The ECE portfolio covers events of various sizes and complexities, both in terms of audience size & composition, first party & third party, and delivery methodologies. This role will lead experiences and design throughout ideation, development, production, and execution phases of every assigned project.     

As a Creative Director, Experiential & Design, you will be the driving force behind the creative strategy and vision of experiential marketing efforts and design for Microsoft’s flagship events, leading a talented team of creatives to deliver unforgettable programming. Your strategic thinking, innovative ideas, and passion for excellence in creative for experiential will be key to your success in this role. In this role, you should also consider yourself an experiential artist, art director, event marketer, creative visionary and an immersive and interactive storyteller.

You will manage a team of 10 Event Experience Leads/Event Design Leads within the creative team. You will focus on all up experience and design strategy for the events portfolio; ideating and architecting experiences and activations for Microsoft’s commercial events such as Ignite, Build, AI Tour and more. This role is pivotal in co-leading all-up event creative strategies and storytelling alongside a team of event Creative Directors. Experiences, activations and designs will be tailored for business and technical senior decision makers. You will report directly to the General Manager Event Creative Experiences within the broader events team, under the corporate Marketing group.

You will play a key role that works with diverse Microsoft teams such as product marketing, engineering, public relations (PR), sales, event sponsorships, senior executives, and others.  You and your team will bring to life the experiential marketing strategy and vision for Microsoft’s portfolio of events and contribute to out-of-the-box thinking for onsite, online and hybrid experiences. This is a unique opportunity to showcase your leadership skills, creativity, and ability to think innovatively. This candidate should thrive on collaboration, curiosity, and a growth-oriented mindset while embracing Microsoft leadership principles.