Art Director (Social and Digital Content)

Location: Remote; applications are limited to candidates residing in Washington, California, Arizona, or Maryland. The role generally aligns with 9 am–5 pm Pacific Time, with varying schedules, weekends, nights, holidays, long shifts, and travel as needed.

Salary: $110,000–$118,000 annually.

Company

Creative production work focused on social and digital content, visual design, and brand-aligned executions.

What you will do

• Lead overall visual design and direction of content across social, digital, video, animation, and HTML-related channels.
• Ideate and execute social media content, design systems, and brand-focused visual storytelling.
• Oversee creative projects from concept through completion while maintaining on-brand, accessible, and high-quality output.
• Collaborate with producers, Creative Directors, stakeholders, and business partners to manage feedback, approvals, schedules, and priorities.
• Apply Microsoft Brand Identity guidelines and develop innovative executions within established brand systems.
• Monitor social platforms, digital trends, audience behavior, and emerging opportunities.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional design experience and experience leading visual direction across multiple channels and platforms.
• Strong skills in art direction, visual design, concept development, social and digital content design, design systems, typography, layout, composition, and color.
• Experience managing projects from concept through completion, maintaining brand consistency, and incorporating feedback from multiple stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of social media platforms, digital trends, platform-specific content strategies, and digital culture.
• Strong communication, presentation, leadership, mentoring, organization, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Professional experience with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator; portfolio with strong social and digital executions required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Premiere, After Effects, video editing, motion, animation, UI design, photography, or cinematography.
• Interest in emerging technology, inclusive design, sustainability, and Microsoft values.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work with no permanent on-site office requirement.
• Work includes global-ready, accessible, and inclusive content development.
• Full-time, exempt, salaried position with a 12-month term and expectation of continuation.
• Employment is contingent on passing a criminal background check.
• Reasonable interview and selection-process accommodations are available.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume, cover letter, and link to a digital portfolio.
• Applicants moving forward will be contacted by the recruiting team.