UX Writer and Content Designer, Google Play - Google
San Francisco, CA
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- 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.
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
- 3 years of experience interacting with executive leadership.
- 2 years of writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing experience in an agency setting.
- 2 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.
- Knowledge of user experience research principles and practices and how to use data to provide informed user insights.
About the job
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.
As a UX Writer and Content Designer, you will impact millions of users every day by creating editorial content that offers Apps experiences to our users. You will be an expert on content, unique user needs for the global Android ecosystem. You will work with other editors to develop, uphold and enforce our existing editorial program guidelines and standards, and help syndicate and scale our content.You will develop and execute against scaled apps UX content strategy across the globe, with a primary focus on the US market. You bring editorial instincts, analytical abilities, and Excellent communication skills. You are comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, UX Design, Marketing, Engineering, and other teams to develop an innovative user experience. You will also have a track record for successful prioritization, meeting critical deadlines, addressing challenges and solving problems.
Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.The US base salary range for this full-time position is $111,000-$163,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.Responsibilities
- Create UI text that facilitates user navigation, as well on-boarding, promos, 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, and ensure cohesive product narratives, Document your 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.
