Google Hiring for Production Manager, Devices and Services Marketing at Mountain View, CA Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of production experience in a lead role within an agency environment.
Preferred qualifications:
- 7 years of experience in marketing/advertising/design studio environment.
- Conflict management experience. Ability to approach conflicts as opportunities; understand others quickly; can find common ground without comprising total position.
- Expert macOS-based knowledge of Adobe CC, Sketch, and Figma.
- Design skills to execute iterative mechanical versions.
- Ability to interpret and communicate creative direction and revisions to production partners.
- Ability to work within a team environment, function in ambiguity, with strong attention to detail.
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.
The Production Manager role is an integral part of the Devices & Services Marketing Creative Team and is part of the Cross-Product Global Brand Creative Studio. Key requirements include a strong understanding of current design software, the ability to communicate and work effectively with business partners, expert level technical knowledge of all facets of mechanical production, and extreme attention to detail.
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.
Responsibilities
- Build, revise and prepare final mechanicals for release to pre-press, print and online vendors/teams.
- Construct clean digital files for online use. Print, review and approve internal color proofs and review printer proofs for accuracy. Prepare comps and mockups, often at full-size, for use in presentations.
- Work closely with Print Production and Retail Producers to ensure project goals, details, and deadlines are met.
- Adhere to brand graphic standards and server structure in all files, utilizing processes outlined in the studio manual, or as specified by the Supervisor. Work with Supervisor to evaluate and revise studio manual, and assist in enforcing studio standards.
- Investigate, test, and recommend alternative production methods, both technical and process-oriented, as needed, to the supervisor. Evaluations may involve Return on Investment (ROI) exercises and presentations to various business partners.
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.