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Your work should feel inevitable, like it always existed, and that's the standard Microsoft holds for the Art Director we're hiring. At Microsoft the $190,000 - $285,000 matters, sure, but so does owning the creative outcome with 12 years of Adobe XD behind it.
Key Responsibilities
- Create wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes for web and mobile
- Adapt master concepts into channel-specific formats and aspect ratios
- Shape brand voice across every touchpoint our Berkeley customers actually notice
- Ensure all deliverables meet brand, accessibility, and platform standards
- Hold the line on kerning while shipping at a part-time pace
- Knead a clumsy stock photo into something that feels shot for Microsoft
- Reconcile legal's caveats with a layout that still breathes
- Sustain a 10-week sprint cadence without letting the work go generic
What You'll Bring
- Experience thriving in a customer-obsessed, deadline-driven setting like Microsoft
- A learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements
- Sharp written and verbal communication, tested under scrutiny
- Fluency across Networking and Visual Design, with strong opinions on both
- The judgment to say no to good ideas at the wrong time
- Proven Cultural Awareness judgment when the textbook answer doesn't fit
- Working familiarity with part-time schedules and team norms at Microsoft
The story of Microsoft is really the story of Berkeley, CA betting on a sharp-but-gentle idea about creative and being proven right. Our Berkeley team would rather over-communicate than leave a teammate guessing at midnight.
Our offer wraps $190,000 - $285,000 around mentorship, real benefits, and the kind of Berkeley, CA flexibility most creative roles only promise.
Active right now, the director seat has not yet found its person.
One short application stands between you and the Art Director desk at Microsoft.