UX Writer and Content Designer, Google Photos - 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.
- 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 experience in writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing in an agency setting.
- 2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional technology organization.
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.
At Google Photos, our mission is to be the home for all the photos and videos, organized and brought to life, so you can share and save what matters. We’re taking the work out of storing, managing, sharing, and reliving the memories. While at G1 our mission is to be one membership that unlocks premium experiences that help our users get the most out of Google.
Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.
Responsibilities
- Understand and advocate for all UX functions as essential to the product life-cycle.
- Drive the development of innovative UX writing and content design solutions to complex 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, goal, 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 strategic efforts in alignment with larger project goals.