About
The Creative Fellowship places emerging talent on dedicated creative teams at Google, gaining exposure and hands-on experience across many of our in-house creative departments. The 6-month program aims to provide an enriching experience, while ushering in a dynamic network of creative talent with fresh perspectives and a strong “maker-first” approach.
Roles
The 2026 Creative Fellowship will take place in the United States. Fellows must be located and have work authorization in the United States in order to participate.
Below are the open roles for the 2026 Creative Fellowship. We encourage you to read the descriptions and select up to two creative role(s) that feel most applicable to you and your skillset. Roles are subject to change. Please read the requirements below before submitting interest for a role.
Brand Studio
Brand Studio is a team of writers, art directors, designers, filmmakers, engineers, producers, and strategists focused on building the Google brand. We produce a range of creative work, including films, ad campaigns, and interactive experiences, that bring Google's values to life for a global audience.
New York, NY
As a Motion Designer, you’ll support the Google Doodles team, combining contemporary design aesthetics with technical expertise in motion, 3D, and traditional animation. You’ll leverage a diverse toolkit to solve animation challenges across a broad spectrum of visual styles and illustration techniques, and you’ll be comfortable experimenting with AI technology to support your process. Your projects will span independent contributions, such as GIF animations for Doodles, to collaborations with a larger team on short-form videos. You will approach projects conceptually and demonstrate the versatility to develop original artwork, animate within existing creative assets, and execute designs that cohere with established systems.
San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA
As a Producer in Brand Studio, you will be the organizational force behind big brand productions. You will look to grow your skills into multiple mediums (i.e., social, film, broadcast, interactive, print), and will manage all of the foundational elements necessary to bring world-class creative ideas to life. You will partner with Senior Producers and Creative teams, facilitating the execution of medium-to-large brand-critical projects, with a strong emphasis on social executions. Your work will involve developing and managing production schedules, facilitating pre-production, as well as managing dashboards, statuses, stakeholder feedback, and budgets.
San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA
As a “maker-first” Social Creative/Copywriter in Brand Studio, you will concept social campaigns as well as social extensions to our brand moments. Your natural knack for living “chronically online” will inform your ability to identify current trends and conversations and interpret them into resonant communications on behalf of the Google brand. You will bring either strong writing skills or a demonstrable ability to scrappily concept and execute compelling, on-brand social content.
San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
As a Creative Technologist on the Brand Studio team, you'll prototype interactive demos, and experiment with cutting-edge technologies to bring innovative ideas to life. This role blends creativity and technology and requires a solid foundation in front-end development (TypeScript), back-end development (Python, node.js, Go) and AI technologies. Your love for hardware, interfaces, experimental UI, combined with server-side experience with Google Cloud, is a major plus.
Creative Lab
The Creative Lab is a team of designers, writers, programmers, filmmakers, producers, and business thinkers whose mission is to remind the world what it is they love about Google. Our job is to make Google's magic more magical, help advance and invent Google's future, and to communicate Google's innovations, intentions, and ideals in ways that makes us all immensely proud.
New York, NY
As a Creative Technical Motion Artist, you’ll be a maker who loves to peek under the hood of AI and push the boundaries. You’ll move beyond perfect prompting, to bridge the gap between research and beautiful pieces of animation. Whether you are a designer who’s learned to love Python or a coder with an eye for motion, you will thrive in the creative "grey area" of emerging tech. You’ll turn technical glitches into art and build the tools that help others create.
New York, NY
As a Visual & Motion Designer, you’ll be a versatile visual storyteller who loves the "how" as much as the "what." You’ll take concepts from rough sketches to a 3D render, while experimenting with new AI plugins to take things further. Whether crafting brand-aligned social content or experimenting with generative video workflows, you will thrive on finding the most creative path to the finish line. You will bring a deep passion for 3D and an eagerness to help evolve the future of our motion pipeline.
Google Cloud Brand & Creative
Google Cloud Brand & Creative is a diverse set of thinkers, makers, and creators that love to simplify complexity. We offer insights and ideas that inspire love for our brand and our products to grow our business. We challenge a category filled with predictable thinking, vague buzzwords, and tired B2B clichés. We make enterprise-grade, mission-critical cloud technology feel uniquely human…and uniquely Google.
San Francisco, CA
As a Creative Technologist for Google Cloud Brand & Creative, you'll prototype and experiment with cutting-edge technologies to bring innovative ideas to life. You will blend creativity and technology, built on a solid foundation in front-end development (TypeScript), back-end development (Python, node.js, Go), and AI technologies. Your love for hardware, interfaces, and experimental UI, combined with server-side experience with Google Cloud, will be a major plus.
San Francisco, CA
As a Social Creative for Google Cloud Brand & Creative, you will concept social-first executions, as well as social extensions to larger brand campaigns. You’ll live and breathe all aspects of social media, staying aware of current trends and conversations, with the ability to translate those trends into creative advertising in the B2B space. Whether your background is in copywriting, art direction, or filmmaking, you’ll be able to utilize your obsession with social media, plus a thirst to learn more about our B2B audience.
San Francisco, CA
As a Visual & Motion Designer for Google Cloud Brand & Creative, you will work with Creative leaders to deliver our product stories and services to the world through identities, campaigns, events, and more. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to the development of brand identities, key interactive experiences, brand campaigns, and a design language that captures the character of Google Cloud’s brand.
YouTube Creative Studio
YouTube Creative Studio's mission is to create work that is impossible to ignore. With a team made up of Creatives, Producers, and Strategic thinkers, we work to bring the magic of our platform to life for our audiences—focusing on Shorts, Subscriptions, and Creators.
New York, NY
As a Video Storyteller, you’ll be a creative maker eager to get your hands dirty with new tech. You’ll bring brand stories to life by blending strong narratives with AI tools, handling everything from the first prompt to the final master. Whether you're a filmmaker, editor, or motion pro, you’ll be a visual artist who uses AI to create original work, not just edit. You’ll embrace the experimentation of prototyping and vibe coding—peeking under the hood to bring fresh ideas to life across the YouTube brand, from social campaigns to big brand moments.
New York, NY
As an AI Prompt Artist, you will translate creative concepts into precise, technical inputs to get the most from image and video models. You’ll curate high-quality, brand-aligned assets by engineering, testing, and refining prompts for Gen AI tools. Leveraging your knack for blending context and creativity, you’ll craft compelling narratives that result in unique AI outputs. You will balance human magic—incorporating narrative-building, a bit of wit, and humor—with the architecture of AI conversations to reinvent storytelling in fresh ways for the YouTube brand.