Senior Designer

Google; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Brand Studio seeks a Senior Designer to lead design components for major brand moments, establish design standards, and collaborate with multidisciplinary creative teams. You will help push the creative boundaries to match the fast-evolving pace of our products.

The role involves guiding a team of visual and motion designers, ensuring work is aesthetically excellent and on message across campaigns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of design experience, including in the technology sector.
• Portfolio showing experience in Brand, Interactive, Conceptual, Experiential, or Technology design.

Responsibilities

• Drive design projects from conception to production with team creatives and agency partners.
• Manage stakeholder reviews, incorporate feedback and adjust deliverables based on project needs.
• Create aesthetically excellent work that is true to the brand spirit.
• Craft conceptual stories with the use of graphic and UI design.
• Contribute strategically to the development of campaign identities.

Skills

Design experience

Portfolio

Brand design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Los Angeles, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience in design, including experience in the technology sector.
• A portfolio of creative work displaying experience in (Brand, Interactive, Conceptual, Experiential, or Technology) design.

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years in a senior design role, informally managing and influencing the broader team.
• Experience utilizing AI productivity tools to solve complex, multi-layered problems and streamline business or development workflows.
• Ability to build every pixel in a Doodle and every piece of typography to build brand positive sentiment.
• Ability to handle complex technical constraints and fast-moving timelines.
• Ability to grasp design and technology trends including how to apply these to projects, with an understanding of how to create assets for multi-resolution platforms, and product-obsession.

About The Job

Brand Studio is focused on building the Google brand. By combining user insights, strategic thinking, beautiful design and storytelling, our team creates a wide range of work that drives Google’s reputation for being helpful to people, businesses, and communities. Our work also aims to build advocacy and trust in the brand. To achieve that, we’re a multidisciplinary team of marketers, strategists, insights specialists, creatives, producers, and engineers who work together to create exceptional marketing.

In this role ,you will be responsible for the design components for the major brand moments. You will help establish the design standards for Brand Studio’s major brand marketing campaigns in collaboration with multidisciplinary creative teams. You will partner closely with Design Leads to ensure our work is creatively excellent, strategically sound, and aligned with brand standards. At the same time, you will continue to push the creative boundaries to match the fast-evolving pace of our products.

The Senior Designer brings brand storytelling to life through both designing themselves and with a team of visual and motions designers. They ensure the work is aesthetically beautiful, deliverables are completed on time and messaging is clear across all campaign touchpoints. They will obsess over the details and help a talented team of designers do the same through leading by example. You will have experience overseeing a team as well as capable of stepping in and crafting the work themselves.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $171000 - $247000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Drive design projects from conception to production working closely with both team creatives and agency partners.
• Manage stakeholder reviews, incorporate feedback and adjust deliverables based on project needs.
• Create aesthetically excellent work that is true to the brand spirit.
• Craft conceptual stories with the use of graphic and UI design.
• Contribute strategically to the development of campaign identities.

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 .