UX Writer and Content Designer, Google Ads

$111,000 - $163,000/Yr

Google - Mountain View, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Mountain View, CA

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About the position

As a UX Writer and Content Designer for Google Ads, you will advocate for Google design by creating meaningful text that enhances product experiences and helps users complete tasks. Your role involves shaping cohesive product narratives across various platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and providing content recommendations based on user insights and data. You will also mentor junior writers and manage complex projects, ensuring a unified voice and language across products.

Responsibilities

• Create UI text that facilitates user navigation, onboarding, promotions, error messages, instructional materials, and other components of the user experience.
• Drive vision for product language and content across a product or subject-matter domain, ensuring cohesive product narratives and documenting strategies with guidelines.
• 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 developers, influencing and adapting to stakeholder 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, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 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 user experience research principles and practices and how to use data to provide informed user insights.
• Knowledge of online technology and related products, including web and mobile UI and tools.

Benefits

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