Waymo

Creative Studio Lead, Campaigns

Waymo$210K — $259K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in brand creative, copywriting, or creative direction, demonstrating expertise in traditional and digital mediums
  • 5+ years of experience managing and mentoring creative teams including copywriters, designers, and video editors
  • Proven success in creating integrated multi-channel campaigns, from awareness to performance stages
  • Exceptional storytelling ability, simplifying complex technology into engaging consumer messaging
  • Experience in developing scalable design and verbal systems for polished creative work
  • An online portfolio showcasing impactful, metrics-driven campaigns and versatile writing skills

Responsibilities

  • Pioneer innovative and human-centered brand narratives for Waymo's autonomous technology
  • Drive creative vision for high-profile campaigns across various mediums, including digital and traditional
  • Oversee verbal brand standards and the copywriting process, ensuring quality and brand alignment
  • Collaborate with external agencies to translate business briefs into streamlined creative strategies
  • Build and optimize creative systems for fast-paced, localized digital ad campaigns

Benefits

  • Participation in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan available
  • Generous benefits program subject to eligibility requirements
  • 10% travel for production support
Full Job Description
In this hybrid role, you will report to the Group Creative Marketing Lead.

You will:
  • Pioneer bold creative and brand narratives that translate Waymo's frontier autonomous driving technology into clear, compelling, and human-centered campaigns
  • Drive the creative vision and execution of high-visibility campaigns across a vast spectrum of mediums, ranging from massive brand initiatives (TV, OOH, print, and experiential) to fast-paced, always-on paid social and digital content
  • Own the verbal brand standards and end-to-end writing process, setting an exceptional quality bar while remaining a hands-on writer, writing and reviewing copy to ensure emotional resonance, cultural relevance, and absolute brand alignment
  • Direct and collaborate with external agencies and production partners, translating business briefs into clear creative strategies to streamline high-volume production demands
  • Build, scale, and optimize repeatable creative systems and modular templates to enable your team to deliver fast-turnaround, localized digital ad campaigns at speed without sacrificing craft, taste, or brand consistency

You have:
  • 10+ years of experience in brand creative, copywriting, or creative direction at an agency or in-house marketing team, with a portfolio demonstrating mastery in both traditional and digital mediums
  • 5+ years of direct people management experience, with a proven history of growing, inspiring, and managing multi-disciplinary creative teams of copywriters, designers, and video editors
  • A strong track record of developing end-to-end integrated campaigns across diverse channels, showing your ability to scale creative strategies from broad awareness-building down to hyper-focused performance and conversion stages
  • Mastery of storytelling and communication, with a proven ability to distill complex, emerging technology or sophisticated technical subjects into clear, compelling, and highly engaging consumer messaging
  • Demonstrated experience integrating robust design and verbal systems into highly scalable, polished, and culturally resonant creative work
  • An available online portfolio showcasing distinctive, metrics-driven campaign creative, exceptional copywriting, and an adaptable approach to writing across multiple formats and platforms

We prefer:
  • Experience expanding and scaling a consumer brand internationally, adapting large-scale marketing campaigns to respect local cultural nuances while maintaining a highly cohesive global brand standard
  • A strong performance marketing and direct-to-consumer (DTC) creative mindset, with a proven track record of using creative performance metrics and rapid testing to optimize campaign copy, conversion, and pipeline growth
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to design compelling pitches and distill complex, frontier technology into simple, human-centered narratives
  • Masterful stakeholder and executive management skills, including a track record of pitching bold creative directions, resolving conflicting visions, and earning trust with senior, non-marketing leaders
  • Advanced fluency with Generative AI and AI-assisted creative tools, utilizing emerging technologies as a strategic multiplier to accelerate copy ideation, asset versioning, and personalization at scale

Travel Requirements:
  • 10% for production support


The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range

$210,000-$259,000 USD

About Waymo

Waymo LLC is a self-driving technology development company. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and provides ride-hailing services through its Waymo One program. The company has been testing its self-driving technology on public roads since 2009 and has logged millions of miles of autonomous driving. Waymo has partnerships with several automakers and has been working on developing autonomous trucks for use in logistics.
Learn more about Waymo
Size
2,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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