Senior UX Writer, YouTube

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• People management experience and achieving goals working with distributed team members.
• Portfolio of UX-focused writing samples and style guidelines.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience on user-focused product writing including work in hardware, software, digital agency, or other relevant product area.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
• Excellent writing, editing and project management skills.

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.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”

Responsibilities

• Define best practices for user interface writing and content strategy principles that establish the quality standard
• Drive a vision for UX content strategy for a given area
• Provide mentorship to UX writers, lead creative and holistic thinking across diverse product experiences across multiple devices
• Collaborate with Designers, Researchers, Prototypers, Product Managers and Engineers to define requirements and manage projects and stakeholders

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