Google - Mountain View, CA

posted 5 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Mountain View, CA
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About the position

As a UX Writer at Google, you will play a crucial role in shaping product experiences by creating useful and meaningful text that assists users in completing tasks. Your work will involve setting the vision for content and driving cohesive product narratives across various platforms and touchpoints. You will be expected to demonstrate your stellar writing skills through a portfolio that showcases content that simplifies and enhances the overall user experience. Collaboration is key in this role, as you will work closely with professionals in various UX design-related positions, including researchers, product managers, developers, and marketing teams. Your goal will be to establish cohesive language and a unified voice across products and platforms, ensuring that the content aligns with user needs and expectations. In this position, you will utilize empathy, logic, and data to inform your content choices and recommendations, which may include the right words, as well as complementary data and images. You will also be responsible for advocating for all UX functions as essential to the product lifecycle, driving the development of innovative UX writing and content design solutions to address complex user, product, and business challenges. Building alignment will be a significant part of your role, as you will collaborate with product managers, team members, and other cross-functional stakeholders, such as marketing, legal, and developers, to develop a compelling product narrative, vision, mission, or principles. Additionally, you will lead the establishment and improvement of holistic UX writing and content design processes, systems, frameworks, or patterns across multiple teams or products. Your influence will extend to the development of priorities across projects, balancing tactical and strategic efforts in alignment with larger project goals. Google Ads, the team you will be part of, is dedicated to powering the open internet with technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. This team is responsible for building Google's advertising products, including search, display, shopping, travel, and video advertising, as well as analytics, creating trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads.

Responsibilities

  • Understand and advocate for all UX functions as essential to the product lifecycle.
  • Drive the development of innovative 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 to develop a product narrative, vision, 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.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communication, Literature, Business, Marketing, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in writing, editorial, marketing, UX writing, or related, as well as leading content strategy projects.
  • Portfolio of UX-focused writing samples.

Nice-to-haves

  • 10 years of writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing experience in an agency setting.
  • 7 years of experience interacting with executive leadership.
  • 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional technology organization.
  • Experience with user-focused product writing (e.g., work in hardware, software, digital agency, or other relevant product area).

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
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