UX Writer and Content Designer, Geo

$111,000 - $163,000/Yr

Google - Mountain View, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Mountain View, CA

5,001-10,000 employees

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

About the position

As a UX Writer and Content Designer at Google, you will advocate for design by creating meaningful text that enhances user experiences across various platforms. Your role involves shaping product narratives, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and using data to inform content strategies. You will contribute to the Geo team's mission of building accurate and useful mapping products that serve over a billion users monthly.

Responsibilities

• Create UI text that facilitates user navigation, onboarding, promos, error messages, instructional materials, and other components of the user experience.
• Drive ideas for product language and content across a product or subject-matter domain, ensuring cohesive product narratives and establishing best practices.
• Manage projects from needs assessment to implementation, identifying opportunities, establishing priorities, securing resources, and managing stakeholders.
• Collaborate with designers, researchers, legal, marketing, product managers, and engineers, influencing and adapting to stakeholder feedback.
• Craft context for translations and collaborate with linguists and local stakeholders to ensure local sensitivity and understanding.

Requirements

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

Nice-to-haves

• 3 years of experience interacting with executive leadership.
• 2 years of experience working in a cross-functional technology organization.
• Experience with UX research principles and practices and using data to provide informed user insights.
• Experience writing for sensitive domains (e.g., healthcare, finance).
• Experience conducting language and design audits across products and feature sets.
• Experience developing information architecture for documentation sets or product suites, including localization and accessibility best practices.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development
• Wellness programs