Microsoft

Visual Designer

Microsoft • $133K — $219K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or related certification in Design or Fine Arts with 2+ years of experience, or equivalent expertise.
  • Preferred 5+ years in visual/graphic design with a focus on brand and social content.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating versatility in social, campaign, and digital mediums, including graphic design and illustration.
  • Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) and Figma.
  • Experience using generative AI tools in design projects, demonstrating fluency in this area.

Responsibilities

  • Own the visual design process for social media and campaign assets from concept to delivery.
  • Create original illustrations and establish graphic systems for diverse campaign needs.
  • Leverage generative AI throughout the creative workflow for ideation and production.
  • Translate strategic objectives into accessible designs for global audiences.
  • Customize creative assets for various platforms such as Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube.
  • Enhance overall design quality in the studio through constructive feedback and direction.
  • Manage visual assets with care, ensuring organization and accessibility.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic and creative environment at a leading tech company.
  • Collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams, including writers and marketers.
  • Access to cutting-edge design tools and technologies, including generative AI.
  • Chance to contribute to high-visibility projects that shape Microsoft's commercial brand.
  • Potential for ongoing professional development and skill enhancement.
Full Job Description
Overview

As a Visual Designer in the Engines & Experiences Design Studio, you are the generalist maker behind how Microsoft's commercial brand shows up in culture. You design, illustrate, and animate work that lives across social platforms, campaign moments, product launches, and events - moving between building a campaign design system one week and illustrating a concept with no existing reference the next.

We're looking for an AI-native designer: someone who treats generative tools as part of their craft rather than a shortcut around it, using them to explore more directions, produce more variations, and reach a higher-quality answer faster - while holding the taste and judgment that decide which answer is right. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with creative leads, writers, producers, and product marketers, and be trusted to take work from brief to ship.

Responsibilities
  • Own social and campaign visual design end to end - concept through final delivery - producing static, illustrated, and motion assets for multiple product launches and always-on campaigns each quarter.
  • Create original illustration and build graphic systems (type, color, layout, iconography) that give campaigns a distinct point of view and hold up from a 1080x1350 social frame to an event-scale backdrop.
  • Use generative AI across the workflow - ideation, image and video generation, variation, retouching, and production - and bring repeatable prompts, styles, and pipelines back to the studio so the whole team compounds on what you learn.
  • Translate brand and campaign strategy into work that reads clearly to global audiences, partnering with creative leads, writers, and producers from brief through review to launch.
  • Adapt master creative into platform-native cuts and localized variants across Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube, holding craft and brand consistency across dozens of deliverables per campaign.
  • Raise the craft bar across the studio - give and receive feedback in reviews, provide art direction to internal partners and external agencies, and bring new formats, tools, and trends to the team.
  • Manage assets responsibly: tag visual assets with sensitivity labels, store them in access-controlled repositories, and keep source files organized and handoff-ready.


Qualifications
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree or Certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications, Human Computer Interaction, or a related art field AND 2+ years of experience in art design or a related art field, OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience in visual/graphic design, preferably in brand, marketing, or social content.
  • A portfolio showing range across social, campaign, and digital formats - including both graphic design and original illustration.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) and Figma.
  • Demonstrated use of generative AI tools in shipped design work, or clear evidence of actively building that fluency.
  • Ability to take a brief to finished, on-brand deliverables independently, and to give and receive direct creative feedback.
  • Illustration as a core strength - a distinct hand that can flex across styles and hold a campaign together.
  • Generalist range: motion design and short-form video editing (After Effects, Premiere) alongside static graphic design.
  • Deep fluency with generative image, video, and layout tools (e.g., Firefly, Midjourney, Sora, Runway, Nano Banana), including building style libraries and model-assisted production pipelines others can reuse.
  • Experience designing platform-native content for Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube.
  • Experience shipping 2+ campaigns or products end to end.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced, matrixed organization and directing external agencies or production partners.
  • Communication skills, openness to feedback, and a passion for craft, precision, and storytelling through design.


Art IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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.

About Microsoft

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
NASDAQ
MSFT
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