Overview
Do you love working on paid advertising? Thrive on seeing your work out in the world? Believe that finding creative solutions to complex problems is a superpower of yours? We are looking for a creative, collaborative, and highly accountable team player with expertise in paid advertising campaign management to join our WDS Creative & Integrated Marketing team. We believe great campaigns are built through partnership, clear ownership, candid feedback, inclusive decision-making, and disciplined execution.
The Senior Advertising Campaign Manager will lead the operating rhythm and end-to-end delivery of complex, high-visibility consumer campaigns. This person will serve as the campaign’s connective tissue and “air traffic controller,” bringing together the people, decisions, inputs, assets, and timelines required to get excellent advertising into market on time and at quality. You will own campaign operations across key paid workstreams, including video, digital display, social, creator, custom media, audio, retail, localization, and asset handoff. This role would work closely with campaign managers, creative leads, product marketing, integrated marketing, media, research and insights, legal, engineering, regional teams, creative and production partners, and external agencies. The ideal candidate combines marketing judgment with exceptional program leadership, understands how paid creative gets made and trafficked, and is comfortable driving the details without losing sight of the customer ambition or the campaign goals.
About the Team
WDS Creative & Integrated Marketing team sets a high bar for the work while supporting one another, staying curious, and bringing positive energy to complex, fast-moving challenges. We value people who simplify ambiguity, anticipate what is needed, respectfully push for clarity, and create the conditions for teams and agencies to do their best work. The team translates product and business priorities into integrated consumer experiences and high-impact marketing that builds the Microsoft brand, creates demand, and helps customers understand why Microsoft products matter. Global Advertising leads the development and delivery of consumer paid advertising campaigns.
Responsibilities
· Lead end-to-end campaign operations from kickoff through launch and wrap-up, translating campaign strategy, media plans, and creative requirements into an integrated plan of record with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and decision points.
· Own cross-workstream orchestration across video, display, social, creator, custom media, audio, retail, localization, and market activation, ensuring work moves cohesively across creative development, production, post-production, approvals, versioning, trafficking, and launch.
· Build and manage detailed workback schedules, campaign trackers, hot sheets, status dashboards, launch calendars, and risk logs. Maintain a reliable single source of truth and pr
