Creative Director, Google

Beyond is seeking a Creative Director to lead and grow one of our most strategic accounts: Google. Operating across multiple Google teams and product areas, this is a rare opportunity to shape the future of user experiences, marketing surfaces, and agentic services for one of the world’s most ambitious companies.

As Creative Director, you will drive creative strategy, craft design vision, and oversee execution across complex initiatives. You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary team and partner closely with product, marketing, and engineering stakeholders at Google. You’ll play a critical role in connecting our design practice and engineering capabilities to drive real business outcomes.

This is a high-impact, leadership role for a confident, creative thinker who can lead from the front, pitch with vision, and ship with precision.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Leadership

• Own the creative vision across Google engagements, ensuring all work is high-quality, original, and business-aligned.
• Lead the creative development of future-facing products and technology.
• Champion AI-native, outcome-driven design principles in every project.

Client Partnership

• Build deep, trusted relationships with stakeholders across Google product marketing teams.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner, proactively shaping opportunities that expand Beyond’s impact.
• Translate complex business and technology challenges into compelling design strategies.

Team Leadership & Growth

• Inspire, mentor, and manage a cross-disciplinary team of designers, storytellers, and makers.
• Foster a culture of creative bravery, craft, and continuous learning - where experimentation with AI and emerging tools is the norm.
• Shape the team structure and career development to scale with Google’s growing needs.

Execution Excellence

• Drive projects end-to-end: from concept to high-stakes presentation to live execution.
• Know Google - Guide the team from concept through execution, ensuring creative ideas are delivered to Google’s highest standards.
• Be hands-on when it matters, concepting, prototyping, shaping narratives, and refining design output.
• Ensure Beyond’s work for Google consistently meets the highest standards of UX, accessibility, and brand integrity (Material Design, Android, Chrome, Google Cloud, etc.).

Pitching & Business Growth

• Lead creative development for pitches, proposals, and new business opportunities
• Collaborate with strategy, technology, and client services teams to shape winning narratives.
• Help expand Beyond’s reputation as a go-to Creative, Design, AI and technology partner.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product or experience design at top agencies, brands, or consultancies.
• 5 years of experience leading high-visibility, flagship design projects while managing people or teams.
• 3 years of work experience working with and pitching to executive leaders.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, originality, and executional excellence.
• Deep understanding of AI’s impact on design—agentic systems, personalization, real-time interfaces.

Preferred

• Experience defining and maintaining a design system.
• Experience designing for AI and agentic capabilities.
• Experience with workflow simplification and automation.
• Experience managing stakeholders and providing creative storytelling.
• Experience working with or within Google.
• Familiarity with AI tools (Figma AI plugins, Gemini, Google Cloud, Workspace).
• Industry recognition (awards, publications, talks) for design or digital innovation.

Benefits

Remote-First at Beyond

We operate a remote-first model. This means your primary work location is remote, but you are expected to work out of our studios or client locations for:

• Collaboration sessions with customers and/or colleagues
• Customer meetings
• Internal workshops
• Mentoring and team sessions
• Cultural and social events
• On-site work

And in return, Beyond offers:

• A team of smart, passionate people who genuinely care about what they do and the standard of work they produce
• Competitive salary and benefits package, and a 5% matched contributions pension scheme
• 25 days’ annual leave, Juneteenth, your birthday off and a paid office closure between Christmas and New Years
• Flexible working to everyone, under our "Beyond Flexibility" program. Ask about this in the interview!
• A strong, inclusive company culture—remote-first, global, and people-centred.

We believe culture plays a large role in what we offer as an organization. We promote diversity in all its forms across our organization, and we proudly and passionately create a culture of inclusivity and openness for all our employees.

Beyond is committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to remove exclusivity and barriers and encourage new thinking and perceptions in a space of belonging. It is not about race, gender, or age; it is about people. Without our people being their most creative and innovative selves, we are nothing.