Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Google Assistant

$134,000 - $198,000/Yr

Google - Mountain View, CA

Full-time - Senior

Mountain View, CA

10,001+ employees

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services

About the position

As a Senior UX Writer and Content Designer for Google Assistant, you will play a crucial role in shaping product experiences by creating meaningful text that aids users in completing tasks. You will collaborate with various teams to establish cohesive language and a unified voice across products, driving content strategy and guidelines while mentoring junior writers.

Responsibilities

• Use writing and content design skills to create UI text that facilitates user navigation, onboarding, promos, error messages, instructional materials, and other components of the end-to-end user experience.
• Drive vision for product language and content across a product or subject-matter domain, ensuring cohesive product narratives.
• Document strategies with guidelines, and establish best practices and strategy principles.
• Manage projects from needs assessment to implementation; identify opportunities, establish priorities, secure resources, and manage stakeholders.
• Collaborate with designers, researchers, legal, marketing, product managers, and engineers; influence and adapt to stakeholders and their feedback.
• Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship to junior UX writers and educate cross-functional partners on the role of UX writing and content strategy throughout the product development process.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communication, Literature, Business, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in writing, editorial, marketing, UX writing, content design, or related, as well as leading content strategy projects.
• Experience on UX-focused product writing and shaping content for multi-disciplinary projects.

Nice-to-haves

• 5 years of experience interacting with executive leadership.
• 5 years of writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing experience in an agency setting.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional technology organization.
• Experience developing information architecture for complex documentation sets or product suites, including localization and accessibility best practices.
• Knowledge of online technology and related products, including web and mobile UI and tools.
• Familiarity with user experience research principles and practices and how to use data to provide informed user insights.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible scheduling
• Wellness programs