Creative Engineering Lead

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in a technical, UX, or design setting, or related experience.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of creative leadership experience, with a portfolio showcasing award-winning work or projects that have significantly influenced their respective industries.
• Experience leading a creative agency, studio, or internal creative team responsible for delivering working prototypes, websites, interactive experiences, video content, or applications to clients/stakeholders.
• Experience in video editing, cinematic storytelling, and modern web frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Next.js), with a keen eye on UI/UX design.
• Experience with 3D modeling, animation, game engines (e.g., Unity, Unreal Engine), or interactive media development (e.g., WebGL, three.js).
• Understanding of visual storytelling, design principles, and composition.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s UX Engineers are versatile and passionate about taking on new problems to drive progress and vision for design teams. They’re comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products and prototypes that bring new ideas to life.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As a UX Engineer, you'll work as part of a UX team in a challenging, fast-paced environment. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to create prototypes that identify the best product experiences, launch innovative features, build tools that accelerate UX teams, bridge between design and engineering discussions, and enable efficient, high quality execution.

In this role, you will not only deliver prototypes but also establish the creative systems and tooling that empower our entire studio to innovate at an unprecedented pace. You will be an industry leader renowned for your exceptional storytelling, design sensibility, and you will bring complex creative goals to life through innovative digital experiences.

Google Research is building the next generation of intelligent systems for all Google products. To achieve this, we’re working on projects that utilize the latest computer science techniques developed by skilled software developers and research scientists. Google Research teams collaborate closely with other teams across Google, maintaining the flexibility and versatility required to adapt new projects and foci that meet the demands of the world's fast-paced business needs.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $178,000-$265,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $178,000-$265,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Establish and advocate the creative aesthetic, storytelling approach, and overall creative quality standards for all prototyp