Google Looking For Creative Brand Experience Manager, Devices and Services Marketing at Mountain View, CA Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
8 years of Visual Merchandising or Brand Management, experience.

Experience with cross-functional collaboration defining a strategic creative concept through completion.

Experience sketching ideas, creating mood boards, and communicating design, intent through drawings, and visualization tools like Adobe Creative Cloud, SketchUp or similar 3D design software.

A portfolio demonstrating related work.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience in global brand execution and merchandising focus.

Experience setting a vision and either directly or indirectly managing an in-house creative team or agency to bring that vision to life.

Experience presenting to senior stakeholders for approval.

Self-starter and takes initiative with an entrepreneurial spirit, as part of a team.

Thrives working during intensive periods under bold deadlines.

About the job

As a Creative in Marketing, you bring visual, design, written and experiential acumen to Google products and services, presented across all major media, content, channels, and experiences. You have the ability to perform your role in a flexible, ever-changing environment and must be open to new influences and inspiration. You will work with a deeply cross-functional team and inspire a team of vendor partners by sharing ideas and developing effective solutions to generate multiple concepts supporting all forms of major media. You will be equally comfortable making; rolling up your sleeves and designing, mocking, writing, or prototyping; showing, not telling. Above all, you will inspire and lead by example by making the most of every opportunity to develop breakthrough creative, consistent with the Google Marketing brand, and be able to take and provide clear direction and creative feedback that pushes work forward.

Through physical retail experiences, our team inspires our customers to discover, learn about, and to buy our products, services, and accessories, delivering a unique personalized experience like only Google can.

As a Brand Experience Manager within Google Retail’s Concept and Design team, you’ll be responsible for shaping the global visual merchandising strategy and setting the foundation for in-store experiences aligned to Google and Retail’s priorities. We are seeking a highly innovative and passionate individual with a track record for creating, partnering, and delivering in-store merchandising experiences.

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

Craft and drive a forward-looking brand experience vision aligned by line of business, incorporating customer insights, store feedback, and industry trends.

Create and evolve global visual store layouts and approach for optimal customer experience and continually innovate merchandising strategy to support the needs and growth of the business.

Communicate ideas through visuals (storyboards/mood boards, drawing/sketching, ideation, materials, and textures) while understanding the context, insight, and design realities at retail.

Determine and brief immersive customer experience requirements including signage, digital and interactive content, product displays, and fixtures, and support overnight resets in stores, regular store visits, and new store opening activity.

Create/evolve global visual store layouts and approach for optimal customer experience, and drive space allocation for brand impact and profitability, and innovate merchandising strategies to support the needs and growth of business.

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