Creative Intelligence Manager Trend Spotter

Trend Spotter For Creative Intelligence

We're building a Frontier Marketing organization that stays ahead by spotting emerging trends, learning faster, and activating smarter to deliver measurable business outcomes. To drive this transformation, we're seeking a trend spotter to contribute to Creative Intelligence, with a focus on identifying signals and trends that will contribute to our creative development and learning agenda. The Creative Intelligence Manager Trend Spotter will closely partner with cross-functional teams, including Social, Campaign, Data Science, and Analytics, to uncover and highlight new trends and opportunities. It's ideal for someone who excels at detecting shifts in the market, enjoys organizing complex data, and is passionate about transforming insights into actionable learning loops that enable smarter, forward-thinking investments. Ultimately, this role's contributions will help build a robust trend intelligence framework that keeps our campaigns fresh, relevant, and impactful.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities :

• Trend Spotting for Creative Intelligence and Campaign Development
• Surface actionable insights that inform creative development and fuel our campaign strategies.
• Contributes to a continuous learning agenda, ensuring our marketing initiatives are both forward-thinking and responsive to rapid market and trend shifts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform raw trends into strategic opportunities, mapping their potential impact on brand messaging, content formats, and audience engagement.
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data to enable the organization to make smarter, data-driven creative decisions, while also establishing feedback loops that accelerate our ability to test, learn, and iterate.
• Support Strategic Experimentation
• Assist in quarterly and annual planning processes, surfacing learnings that inform future strategic bets.
• Enable Cross-Team Learning
• Support the development of playbooks and best practices libraries that scale high-performing work.

What Success Looks Like :

You're known for your clarity, precision, and ability to turn complexity into scalable systems. Embody our Culture and Values.

Qualifications :

Integrated Marketing IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,100 - $169,800 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 $112,000 - $185,300 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here.

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 29, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.