Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience working in a creative discipline (e.g., writing, filmmaking, video editing, design, art direction, photography, etc.).
• A portfolio of creative work displaying experience in Brand, Interactive, Conceptual, Experiential, or Technology design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience mentoring more junior team members.
• Experience utilizing AI productivity tools to solve complex, multi-layered problems and streamline business or development workflows.
• Demonstrated experience telling brand value stories and addressing creative quandaries (e.g., privacy and security, policy, arts and culture).
• Knowledge of design, technology trends, as well as an understanding of consumer insights and how to apply these to Google projects.
• Ability to synthesize feedback from multiple sources and iterate rapidly combined with the ability to present solutions aligned to goals and influence key stakeholders including Vice Presidents (VPs).

About the job

The Senior Creative role is responsible for developing strategically and conceptually strong brand campaigns for a wide audience. You will both lead and collaborate daily with a set of specialists from designers, writers, filmmakers, strategists, project managers, and producers. You will oversee brand storytelling across a variety of media including social, broadcast, print and documentary. You will not only be proficient in either writing or art direction, but also have meaningful experience leading creative work streams.

You will be trusted to generate the ideas required to solve a problem, even if the problem is ambiguous, and take full ownership of the solution, often involving many activities beyond creative (for example, scheduling, mentoring, brand and project advocacy, team building etc as needed).

Your portfolio demonstrates stellar storytelling chops and considerable film work — smart observations and well-crafted brand work is essential. You will be an experienced problem-solver that can think strategically, identify breakthrough concepts and ideas, and find unexpected ways to bring them to life.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the creative development of integrated brand campaigns across media, including social, interactive and broadcast.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional creative team to not only lead the work, but help ideate and identify new creative approaches.
• Create strategically sound conceptual work and bring it to life via rapid prototyping and storyboard creation.
• Manage complex projects, various stakeholders, in an ambiguous environment. Guide external experience, design, and production agencies.