microsoft
brand & experience design

2017 - 2021

Over the course of almost 5 years, I helped design brands, design systems, experiences, websites, and a variety of other creative materials for Microsoft’s 150,000+ employees.

As I grew my relationships with clients, I became the go-to Design Lead and Creative Director for new creative projects across Microsoft’s Global Learning & Development; Sales; Customer & Partner Solutions; Diversity & Inclusion; Performance & Rewards, and other organizations.

Microsoft is one of the leading organizations in the world in talent development, building internal experiences for their employees, and investing in diversity and inclusion in their workforce.

Microsoft’s primary challenge from a business perspective is the cost of recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing their talent and workforce. As a result, they spend millions of dollars a year to build branded experiences to help grow their people. While a lot of those projects can be designed in-house, Microsoft generally prefers to bring in external vendors to create their projects, often times with varied success, quality, and satisfaction from employees.

To support these objectives, Microsoft wanted to create global scale, and consistency across their portfolio when it came to design, innovation in experience, and brand.

building new brands & EXPERIENCES for global microsoft audiences (150K+)

OVERVIEW

I helped Microsoft create global programs that targeted every single one of their employees, from an entry-level collegiate recruit/intern, to the C-Suite.

Some of the coolest experiences included:

  • Guided, innovative, content-driven “Values Conversations” for all 150K Microsoft employees;

  • New brand design, design systems, and experiences to revolutionize onboarding across Microsoft’s Marketing, Sales, Customer Solutions, Aspire (New Hire), and Engineering orgs;

  • Award-winning “Standards of Business Conduct” Netflix-style series and designed documents to turn stale policy-driven content into exciting and super-NSAT content.

  • A variety of re-brands, new design systems, and other creative.

WHAT I DID

DESIGN SYSTEMS & BRAND DESIGN
LEARNING EXPERIENCE DESIGN
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION TRAINING
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & SALES
INTERACTIVE PDF/POWERPOINT DESIGN
TEAM MANAGEMENT & DESIGN LEADERSHIP
CONTENT DIRECTION & PRODUCTION