Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Google Play

Google is hiring a UX writer to shape product experiences by creating useful, meaningful text that helps users complete tasks, working with various UX design-related roles.

Responsibilities

• Use writing and content design skills to create UI text that facilitates user navigation, as well on-boarding, 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, 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 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 or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in UX writing, content design, technical writing, writing, editorial, marketing, 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).
• 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 documentation sets or product suites, including localization and accessibility best practices.
• Familiarity with 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.