Senior Creative Traffic Manager
Microsoft
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Redmond, WA · Posted October 12, 2026
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Overview Microsoft’s WDS Creative, Advertising & Integrated Marketing team is looking for a Senior Creative Traffic Manager to serve as the operational backbone of a high-volume, fast-paced creative organization. This role serves as the central point of coordination across producers, creatives, agency partners, and stakeholders, ensuring work is prioritized, staffed, scheduled, and delivered efficiently. The ideal candidate excels at balancing competing demands, forecasting resource needs, identifying bottlenecks before they impact delivery, and creating visibility across a complex portfolio of integrated marketing and creative projects. This role is responsible for driving clarity, visibility, and execution across the creative portfolio by establishing and evolving the operating infrastructure that enables teams to plan, prioritize, resource, track, and deliver work efficiently at scale. The Senior Creative Traffic Manager creates the systems, processes, tools, and governance that…
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