UX Writer and Content Designer

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 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 building content for multi-disciplinary projects.
• Experience developing information architecture for documentation.
• 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 designing for web and mobile user experiences.
• Experience with localization and accessibility.

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 on the Google Home team you will have an impact across Google's smart home and voice assistant experiences. The role offers the opportunity to work on a wide variety of products in the Google Home area. You will help managing content strategy, out-of-box-experience instructions, voice and tone, information architecture, voice user interface (VUI) writing, settings and features content, and LLM response content design for all Google Home software and hardware.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

The US base salary range

for this full-time position is $115,000-$166,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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

• Understand and advocate for all UX functions as essential to the product lifecycle.
• Drive the development of innovative UX writing and content design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
• Build alignment by collaborating with product managers, team members, and other cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., marketing, legal, engineering) to develop a product narrative, goals, mission, or principles.
• Lead the establishment and improvement of holistic UX writing and content design processes, systems, frameworks or patterns across multiple teams or products.
• Influence the development of priorities across projects to balance tactical and efforts in alignment with project goals.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.