Creative Technologist

Job Description

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in creative industry, startups, or interactive/digital arts.
• Experience in product management/development or rapid prototyping.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro.
• Experience with Android App UX/Development using Google SDKs.
• Algorithmic thinking and programming knowledge (Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java etc).
• Knowledge of AI/ML and potential applications with TensorFlow, and familiarity with Unity, 3D Modelling, three.js, or WebGL for AR/VR.
• Ability to keep a portfolio with regional experience across Asia Pacific.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.

About the job

Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one Google advertising solution works for all. Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and analytical abilities shapes how new and existing business grow. Using your influencing and relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis. You anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of Google's key clients and understand how our range of product offerings can grow their business. Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users.

As a Creative Technologist you’ll be working at the intersection of creativity, design, and engineering. Your role is to create visually compelling solutions and user experiences that harness technology in delightful and inspiring ways. You’ll be responsible for finding solutions to problems, both theoretically and practically, and then be tasked with early prototype development as well as then identifying the right technical partner to help us scale and bring our innovations to market.

Using data and insights, you’ll come up with ideas and translate them into practical interfaces, prototypes, and experiments, then share your thoughts and findings with the wider team as well as externally. You’ll work across a wide range of cutting-edge technologies and platforms, to learn Google’s inner workings inside out, from our brand identity, guidelines, platforms, and technologies to the product managers and engineers who build them.

New Product Solutions is the link between Google’s Product and Sales organizations. We turn product innovations into client solutions that enable our customers to get the most out of Google’s advertising products and the web. We partner with Sales team members in building the strongest commercial strategy, and we equip customer-facing Googlers with essential product expertise. We are fascinated by all things digital and passionate about shaping the quickly evolving world of online advertising.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with different teams to ideate, prototype, and create new products, and network inside Google and externally with creative teams and vendors.
• Stay abreast of developing technologies and understand their creative potential.
• Drive complex projects with multiple stakeholders in an agile way from inception to completion.
• Develop and implement unique, creative, and innovative concepts and design strategies across the full spectrum of our products and platforms.

Location

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