Google is hiring: Creative Engineering Lead in Mountain View

Creative Engineering Lead Join Google as a Creative Engineering Lead in our Envisioning Studio. You will build high‑fidelity prototypes, mentor creative technologists, and lead the design and storytelling approach for our next‑generation products. 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, 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. 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. Responsibilities Establish and advocate the creative aesthetic, storytelling approach, and overall creative quality standards for all prototypes and experiences developed within the Envisioning Studio. Apply award‑winning storytelling techniques to ensure that our prototypes not only demonstrate technological capability but also resonate emotionally and functionally with audiences. Contribute and lead to the development of high‑fidelity, jaw‑dropping prototypes that leverage the latest AI models in video, image, music, and interactive 3D. Your work will set the bar for creative and technical excellence. Act as a creative leader and mentor for our creative technologists and broader prototyping pods, fostering a culture of imaginative exploration, design excellence, and rapid iteration. Develop and advocate creative systems, asset libraries, and rapid prototyping tools that enable our creative pods to accelerate their development and maintain a consistent, high‑quality output. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr