UX Writer, Google Identity and Engagement

Google • San Francisco, CA

135d • $115,000 - $166,000

About The Position

As a UX writer, you are an advocate for Google design, shaping product experiences by creating useful, meaningful text that helps users complete tasks. You help set the vision for content and drive cohesive product narratives across multiple platforms and touch points. As a stellar writer, your portfolio of work demonstrates content that simplifies and beautifies the overall user experience. You work with people in a variety of UX design-related jobs including researchers, product managers, engineers, marketing and customer operations. Collaborating with each, you strive to establish cohesive language and a unified voice across products and platforms. You regularly use empathy, logic and data to inform content choices and recommendations that include the right words and sometimes complementary data and images. The mission of the team is to seamlessly connect people and products, so that more of our users can unlock the full value of Google. Our goal is to drive both broader and deeper engagement with Google products across platforms, by helping users discover, and experience everything Google has to offer. The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google's products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in UX writing, content design, technical writing, writing, editorial, marketing, or related, as well as leading content strategy projects.
• Experience on UX-focused product writing and shaping content for multi-disciplinary projects.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Nice To Haves

• 3 years of experience interacting with executive leadership.
• 2 years of writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing in an agency setting.
• 2 years of experience working in a cross-functional technology organization.

Responsibilities

• Understand and advocate for all UX functions as essential to the product lifecycle.
• Drive the development of UX writing and content design solutions to complex user, product, and business problems.
• Build alignment by collaborating with product managers, team members, and other cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., marketing, legal, engineering) to develop a product narrative, goal, mission, or principles.
• Lead the establishment and improvement of holistic UX writing and content design processes, systems, frameworks or patterns across multiple teams or products.
• Influence the development of priorities across projects to balance tactical and strategic efforts in alignment with larger project goals.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $115,000-$166,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree