Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Google Play

The UX Writer will create UI text that facilitates user navigation and drive ideas for product language and content across various domains. They will manage projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and provide leadership and mentorship to other writers.

Responsibilities

• Use writing and content design skills to create UI text that facilitates user navigation, 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.

Key Skills

• Experience interacting with executive leadership (preferred)
• Experience in an agency setting (preferred)
• Experience in a complex, cross-functional technology organization (preferred)
• Experience developing information architecture for documentation sets or product suites, including localization and accessibility best practices (preferred)
• Familiarity with user experience research principles and practices and how to use data to provide informed user insights (preferred)
• Knowledge of online technology and related products, including web and mobile UI and tools (preferred)

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits