Creative Lead, Creative Works

Google Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Creative Lead in Toronto to drive innovative advertising solutions for major clients. The role involves collaborating with account teams, delivering strategic presentations, and leveraging the potential of AI in creative processes. Candidates should have extensive experience in the advertising industry, excellent communication skills, and a proven ability to influence stakeholders. This position offers a dynamic environment to impact the future of marketing in Canada.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in the advertising industry.
• 4 years in a customer-facing role.
• Experience working with large customers and agencies.

Responsibilities

• Develop creative ideas to meet client objectives.
• Present recommendations to C-level audiences.
• Build relationships with account teams for growth.

Skills

Sales proficiency

Excellent communication skills

Understanding of AI tools

Innovative creative solutions

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Adobe CS

Gemini suite

Frame.io

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in the advertising industry.
• 4 years of experience working in a customer-facing role.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in the development, implementation and execution of business strategies, as well as in-depth understanding of the Creative industry and Google’s creative offerings and solutions.
• Experience working with large customers and agency organizations.
• Knowledge of experimenting with innovative AI tools in the creative process.
<>Familiarity with tools such as Gemini suite, Adobe CS, Frame.io, Motion/Varos, Workspace, CapCut/Descript, Runway/Topaz/ElevenLabs.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence executive level stakeholders.

About the job

Businesses of all shapes and sizes rely on Google’s unparalleled advertising solutions to help them grow in today’s dynamic marketing environment. You bring a passion for sales, knowledge of online media, and commitment to maximize customer success. You act like an owner, move with velocity through change, finding innovative and strategic ways to consistently deliver extraordinary and incremental outcomes for both Google and your customers. You build trusted relationships with customers, uncovering their business needs and translating them into powerful solutions to achieve their most goals. You achieve as a team with sellers, shape the future of advertising in the AI‑era, and make a real impact on the millions of companies and billions of users that trust Google with their most important goals.

As a Creative Lead for Canada Large Customer Sales, you will influence some of Canada’s leading marketers to unlock the transformative potential of Google products and AI to solve their most pressing brand and business issues. You will be a collaborator, working in close partnership with Google client teams to deliver AI‑powered marketing services to key clients and their agencies. You will be a key point of contact and driving channel behind innovative creative solutions for customers and partners, inspiring, leading, and executing creative strategies that ensure the success of their communications through creative excellence. You will advocate creative solutions as a key competitive advantage and drive growth through creative variety and effectiveness. Google’s Large Customer Sales (LCS) teams are strategic partners and industry thought leaders to the world’s leading brands and agencies. We continuously challenge how customers think about their business and how Google can support growth. We focus on helping these players navigate profound industry shifts and drive outsized business performance by competitively selling Google’s full suite of advertising solutions across Search, YouTube, Measurement, and more. As a member of our LCS team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to sell at the forefront of technology, collaborating with executives, influencing market‑shaping strategies, and delivering tangible results that significantly impact major global businesses and drive the growth of Google.

Responsibilities

• Develop an understanding of a client’s business objectives to deliver innovative creative solutions.
• Develop creative ideas to drive video investment, and present compelling client recommendations with inspiring creative solutions. Deliver presentations to C-level audiences of Canada’s marketers.
• Partner and build relationships with account teams to identify and prioritize opportunities for clients to grow with our creative consulting and solutions.
• Develop excellent relationships, internally and externally, offering support and direction to team members, and leveraging the perspectives and insight they provide.
• Maintain familiarity with Creative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in order to act as an advisor to clients.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.