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Game Designer, Games, Inception, DeepMind London, UK DeepMind has long-established connections with gaming, whether through early AI-breakthroughs mastering Atari games or Starcraft, and more recent research with Genie and SIMA agents. We are looking for a Game Designer with a deep understanding of core systems, player psychology, and interactive storytelling to help us architect a new generation of breakthrough experiences. If you are a systems-thinker who views AI not just as technology, but as a brand-new design material, we want you on the team. Inception runs like a startup, balancing high energy idea generation with pragmatic, clear and regularly refined operations. This collaborative, multidisciplinary group is situated primarily in London and Mountain View with collaborators across the globe. It has a sizable and different portfolio of early stage, design focused projects, with a focus on breakthrough experiences that wouldn't be possible without AI. Your mission is to design core loops, mechanics, and gameplay systems that would be fundamentally impossible without AI. You will be the creative glue bridging the gap between machine learning research and player-facing fun. As a Game Designer, you will advocate a "show, don't tell" culture by translating abstract AI capabilities into tangible game prototypes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define player agency, map out system dynamics, and steer creative ideation sessions that push the boundaries of modern game design. Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity's most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on

Gameplay Programmer, Games, Inception, DeepMind London, UK Inception runs like a startup, balancing high energy idea generation with pragmatic, clear and regularly refined operations. This collaborative, multidisciplinary group is situated primarily in London and Mountain View with collaborators across the globe. It has a sizable portfolio of early stage, design focused projects, building on working processes developed internally on projects such as Astra and Genie. As a Gameplay Engineer and Prototyper in Inception, you will build interactive experiences, blurring the lines between game development and AI research. Your mission is to move beyond traditional game engineering to prove what is possible when generative models and agentic workflows become core mechanics. You will be a key bridge between research and design, moving fast to stand up 0-to-1 prototypes, crafting expert pipelines when necessary, and finding novel technical solutions to creative problems. You will work in a cross-functional environment where every project involves significant experimentation, rapid iteration, and close collaboration. Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity's most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort. Design

Developer Relations Engineer, Android, Play, Games (Japanese, English) Tokyo, Japan Passionate people are everywhere at Google. In Developer Relations, we get excited to collaborate and connect with the communities that love technology as much as we do. Part community manager and part developer advocate, Developer Relations Engineers collaborate with developers at conferences and online, and advocate for developers interests internally at Google. Not afraid to be hands-on, you write sample code and client libraries as well as participate in developer forums and support queues to troubleshoot and debug coding problems developers encounter. Internally, you work with product engineering teams to improve our products by conveying feedback from developers, reviewing API designs and testing new features. Chrome, Android, App Engine, HTML5 as well as our core Google Apps and Ads APIs are just some of the platforms you promote and support. With your technical expertise, you drive strategy around fostering a community of developers who work with Google technologies. An ardent advocate for these developers, you represent their voice internally to our Product Managers and serve as their Google support in application development and technology implementation. In this role, you will provide engineering consultation and guidance to game partner companies using Google's technologies and gather feedback to improve them. You'll also communicate internally with product managers. Your work will foster a community of game developers working with Google technologies and help to drive strategy around developer relations. Android is Google's mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android

Strategy and Operations Lead, Global Games Play Partnerships Mountain View, CA, USA; +3 more As the lead for Global and North America Games Business Operations, you will partner closely with Gaming Partnerships leadership to execute on high-priority strategic initiatives and support efficient business operations. You will lead the development and execution of programs to drive long-term developer ecosystem success and address short-to-mid-term key business goals. You will grow on understanding the complex global gaming business, ensuring the team understands our business nuances better than anyone. In this role, you will act as a central voice for the Games team, ensuring its needs are met from various operational support teams in terms of tooling, training, reporting, and resourcing. You will help lead initiatives that enable the Games team to deliver/overperform on various business initiatives. You will demonstrate a strong balance between strategic thinking, operational efficiency, and pragmatism in accomplishing goals effectively, helping our gaming partners back to central product and business teams to enable improvements critical to unlocking vertical and regional success. The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google's Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google's own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google's user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products. Individual pay is

Staff Software Engineer, Play Games Discovery Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. In this role, you will build personalized experiences for gamers on the Play Store through AI/ML recommendations and helping users know about the latest updates in their favorite games. Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it

UX Researcher, Games, Google Play Bengaluru, Karnataka, India At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you make this possible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to gather insights and create industry-leading products. You'll play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and will drive impact at all stages of product development, ensuring products are useful, usable, and helpful. You will explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research, including: field studies, interviews, diary studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis. You will also grow within a supportive UXR community offering mentorship, regular meetups, and exclusive internal tools. The Google Play Games team is dedicated to delivering the best gaming experiences to billions of users globally. In this role, you are embarking on an ambitious multi-year plan to drive significant growth in the multi-billion-dollar Play business by expanding and improving the multiplatform experiences, game store surfaces, loyalty program, and various features focused on gamer engagement. By joining this team, you will have the chance to contribute to the future of gaming. Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for

Developer Relations Engineer, Android and Play, Games Beijing, China Passionate people are everywhere at Google. In Developer Relations, we get excited to collaborate and connect with the communities that love technology as much as we do. Part community manager and part developer advocate, Developer Relations Engineers collaborate with developers at conferences and online, and advocate for developers interests internally at Google. You write sample code and client libraries as well as participate in developer forums and support queues to troubleshoot and debug coding problems developers encounter. Internally, you work with product engineering teams to improve our products by conveying feedback from developers, reviewing API designs and testing new features. Chrome, Android, App Engine, HTML5 as well as our core Google Apps and Ads APIs are just some of the platforms you promote and support. With your technical expertise, you drive strategy around fostering a community of developers who work with Google technologies. An ardent advocate for these developers, you represent their voice internally to our Product Managers and serve as their Google support in application development and technology implementation. As a Developer Relations Engineers, you will drive a variety of exciting work such as, providing on-site technical engagement (e.g. code analysis and contribution) for showcase product integrations and resolution of launch blockers. You will engage external developers on Product/Tool adoption on Android/Play, and funnel critical feedback regarding driver quality, tools/platform bugs. You will also provide developer technical support and engagement for the latest Pixel devices and create content (e.g. code

Business Development Lead, Content Acquisition, Play Games Partnerships Mountain View, CA, USA; +2 more Google Play provides apps, games, and digital content services that bring Android devices to life. It's a Google approach to entertainment, syncing magically across your devices and the web. As part of the Platform and Ecosystem team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping the product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy a game or ebook on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Play Store serves over two billion users around the world, and is a critical driver of Google's overall revenue growth. The Play Partnerships team works with the developers that are the lifeblood of this ecosystem. The content, games and apps they create bring Android devices to life. The team's mission is twofold: help developers grow their businesses on the Android platform, and inspire them to adopt new products and features to create helpful and joyful experiences for our users. As a Business Development Lead, Content Acquisition, Play Games Partnerships, you will source and secure premium games that do not currently exist on our platform. This may require establishing new relationships with developers we may not have worked with before. The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google's Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google

Engineering Manager, Play Games App, Android Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way. With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally. Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their

Group Product Manager, Play Games Features Bengaluru, Karnataka, India At Google, we put our users first. The world is always changing, so we need Product Managers who are continuously adapting and excited to work on products that affect millions of people every day. In this role, you will work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds. You can break down complex problems into steps that drive product development. One of the many reasons Google consistently brings innovative, world-changing products to market is because of the collaborative work we do in Product Management. Our team works closely with creative engineers, designers, marketers, etc. to help design and develop technologies that improve access to the world's information. We're responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring our solutions to our users. Google Play Games is transforming. Our ambitious multi-year plan is driving substantial growth in our business by building the tools, experiences, and infrastructure to supercharge gaming for billions of users and millions of developers. We are moving with speed, enhancing our teams' creativity and capabilities with the best of Google's AI infrastructure, tools, and services, and driving a culture of rapid innovation and team empowerment. Core to this strategy is to build innovative experiences for gamers on Play that grow engagement and ultimately business growth for our partners and Google. Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the

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Analytical Consultant, Apps and Gaming (English, Hebrew) Tel Aviv, Israel Businesses of all shapes and sizes rely on Google's unparalleled advertising solutions to help them grow in today's dynamic marketing environment. You bring a passion for sales, knowledge of online media, and commitment to maximize customer success. You act like an owner, move with velocity through change, finding innovative and strategic ways to consistently deliver extraordinary and incremental outcomes for both Google and your customers. You build trusted relationships with customers, uncovering their business needs and translating them into powerful solutions to achieve their most ambitious goals. You achieve as a team with sellers, shape the future of advertising in the AI-era, and make a real impact on the millions of companies and billions of users that trust Google with their most important goals. Google's Large Customer Sales (LCS) teams are strategic partners and industry thought leaders to the world's leading brands and agencies. We continuously challenge how customers think about their business and how Google can support growth. We focus on helping these players navigate profound industry shifts and drive outsized business performance by competitively selling Google's full suite of advertising solutions across Search, YouTube, Measurement, and more. As a member of our LCS team, you'll have the unique opportunity to sell at the forefront of technology, collaborating with executives, influencing market-shaping strategies, and delivering tangible results that significantly impact major global businesses and drive the growth of Google. Develop forward thinking, data-driven recommendations that align with client marketing

Research Data Scientist, YouTube Gaming Discovery San Bruno, CA, USA YouTube Data Science influences and informs YouTube's product and engineering leadership. The Gaming Discovery team helps gamers find YouTube content whether it's videos about gaming (e.g., gaming-related content) or Playables (e.g., mini-games playable within the YouTube app). At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun - and we do it all together. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $147000 - $211000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google . Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-project and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer. Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into analysis, evaluation metrics or mathematical models. Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models. Design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent. Gather information, business goals, priorities and organizational context around the questions to answer as well

Field Sales Manager, Game and Media, Google Cloud (English, Japanese) Tokyo, Japan The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business - all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers - developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies - see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners. As a Field Sales Manager (FSM), you will hold a critical leadership role responsible for driving a culture of high performance, transformation, and strategic partnership. You will lead and coach the Field Sales Representative (FSR) community to be consultative sellers, providing the skills, resources and future-forward goal needed to exceed quotas, drive incremental growth, and successfully maximize the value of accounts. You will manage the growth strategy for enterprise accounts, engaging C-suite customers with consultative value selling methodology. You will be technically-fluent, able to lead conversations with customers about how Google Cloud's portfolio of solutions will meet their unique business issues. You will advocate the innovative power of our products and solutions to make organizations more productive, collaborative, and mobile. Google Cloud

Game Quality Product and Operations Manager Bengaluru, Karnataka, India In this role, you will support the development and execution of the Play Store Product roadmap; specifically regarding game quality across search, discovery, and emerging surfaces. You will define, operationalize, and scale guidelines and frameworks for game classification, qualitative evaluation, and deployment to help partner teams connect users to highly relevant, high quality games. You will ensure all details for a new feature to go live are flawlessly executed, from initial design to final operations processes. This includes driving communications, testing/piloting, launch activities, training, addressing bugs and ongoing operational support. You will also track progress on new feature development, clearly communicating milestones, feature details, and launches with cross-functional stakeholders and build relationships with games stakeholders, establishing open channels of communication for feedback, product suggestions and escalations. You will implement and manage product development and operationalization frameworks to work with new Large Language Model (LLM) technologies and will support prompt and context engineering efforts and human computation operations (HITL) to scale game quality evaluations. Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech's role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers' complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers

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Field Sales Representative, Gaming, Google Cloud (Japanese) Tokyo, Japan As a member of the Google Cloud team, you inspire leading companies, schools, and government agencies to work smarter with Google tools like Google Workspace, Search, and Chrome. You advocate for the innovative power of our products to make organizations more productive, collaborative, and mobile. Your guiding light is doing what's right for the customer, you will meet customers exactly where they are at and provide them the best solutions for innovation. Using your passion for Google products, you help spread the magic of Google to organizations around the world. In this role, you will work on businesses using technology to connect with customers, employees and partners. You will help to achieve business goals within the Japan market. You will be responsible for building account strategies, opportunity plans and managing the execution of engagements. You will also work with cross-functional teams including Partners, Product Sales groups and Product Management to accelerate opportunities. Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. Generate and qualify leads and business opportunities. Plan and implement the channel promotion program. Qualify and assist customers in identifying use cases suitable for Google Cloud deployment, articulate key differentiators and typical customer

Strategic Partner Manager, Gaming and Apps, Monetization (English, Mandarin) Beijing, China Google's line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Equipped with your business acumen and extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google's newest product offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce. The role of the Large Partner Solutions (LPS) team within the sellside is to build relationships with the largest and most strategic partners across different verticals including Gaming, OEM, Media and Entertainment, etc. The team's goal is to build sustainable partnerships that deliver economic value to key partners and Google while protecting our shared ecosystem and Google's reputation. The primary responsibilities include driving growth in the business generation and wherever relevant being the point of contact for the partner for all things related to Google. The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google's Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google's own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google's user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market

Software Engineering, Android Embedded Software Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. Our team is responsible for delivering a quality gaming experience allowing the users to play their Android and native games across form factors. In this role, you will manage cross-system integration and performance tests across the operating system (e.g., input, graphics, audio, etc.). You will help the small team move at a pace to hit deadlines. Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to

Strategic Partner Development Associate, Apps and Gaming Mountain View, CA, USA; +3 more As a part of the Global Partnerships Sellside team, you will be providing great service, creating innovative solutions, and most importantly, having amazing people. You will have an open and collaborative culture, where Googlers feel supported and able to do their best work. You will partner with online publishers and app developers to grow their businesses using a portfolio of products including, AdMob, and Google Ad Manager. In this role, you will drive a solutions-based approach across advertising and analytics to find new opportunities for partners, helping them better engage users and advertisers. You will contribute to a platform trusted by over a million partners worldwide, supporting Google's position as a leading enabler of digital content globally. As a Strategic Partner Development Associate, you will be part of a fast-growing and entrepreneurial team within the Global Partnerships Sellside. You will work closely with some of the largest and most strategic apps developers and partners in the market. You will have a opportunity to collaborate with Google's Product and Go-to-Market teams to ensure we build and deploy industry-leading solutions, as strategic partner managers are innovators, encouraged to think big and collaborate with teammates to explore new solutions that meet the evolving needs of Google's partners. The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google's Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their

Senior Cloud Support Engineer United Kingdom You will be the cornerstone of our support operations for the Japanese market, resolving critical technical issues, ensuring cloud system security acting as a vital bridge between our global operations and Japanese enterprise stakeholders. You will navigate the diverse expectations of the Japanese market, from the rigorous compliance of financial institutions to the high-velocity demands of the gaming industry,

Customer Engineer II, Outcome, Telco, Media, Entertainment, and Gaming, Google Cloud Addison, TX, USA; +6 more The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business - all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers - developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies - see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners. As a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Outcome Customer Engineer (OCE), you will drive initial and ongoing revenue ramp for our customers, clearing blockers and ensuring they get the maximum benefit from their investment faster. You will manage and execute the deployment plan, transitioning scoped workloads into production by providing technical leadership to customers and partners. You will have a direct impact on the velocity and incremental consumption of customer workloads, leading to accelerated value realization, higher adoption, and future expansion opportunities. You will blend sales expertise, market knowledge, direct technical engagement, and technical project management to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio. Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We

Business Development Manager, New Business Sales, Gaming (Chinese, English) Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China; +1 more Businesses of all shapes and sizes rely on Google's unparalleled advertising solutions to help them grow in today's dynamic marketing environment. You bring a passion for sales, knowledge of online media, and commitment to maximize customer success. You act like an owner, move with velocity through change, finding innovative and strategic ways to consistently deliver extraordinary and incremental outcomes for both Google and your customers. You build trusted relationships with customers, uncovering their business needs and translating them into powerful solutions to achieve their most ambitious goals. You achieve as a team with sellers, shape the future of advertising in the AI-era, and make a real impact on the millions of companies and billions of users that trust Google with their most important goals. Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We're made up of multiple teams, building Google's Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale. Identify gaming clients in Greater China, collaborating with other internal and external partners to generate qualified leads. Lead the business