Staff UX Writer and Content Designer, Trust, Core

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in UX writing, content design, technical writing, writing, editorial, marketing, or related, as well as leading content strategy projects.
• Experience with stakeholders and cross-functional teams (e.g., Product Management, Engineering, and Legal).
• Experience in UX-focused product writing and shaping content for multi-disciplinary projects.
• Experience in creating and executing content for products.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in a leadership role, with a focus on both individual contribution and team mentorship.
• Experience with internationalization, localization, and information architecture.
• Experience working with legal partners or in a compliance or regulatory space.
• Experience in influencing product strategy with a content-led approach.
• Knowledge of design thinking principles and methodologies.
• Ability to plan and prioritize efforts with cross-functional stakeholders.

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.

In this role, you will guide content design in the established product spaces of consent and transparency and age assurance, and navigate through technical, legal, regulatory, and organizational issues to lead end-user value through innovative design solutions while meeting product and regulatory requirements.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Googles flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Googles products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $165,000-$245,000 + 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

• Define and lead the overall content strategy for trust by developing content frameworks, governance standards, and resources for consent, transparency, and controls solutions.
• Influence product strategy by providing data-informed, content-led approaches and guiding teams through the end-to-end content design process.
• Partner with product management and legal to shape and apply regulatory requirements to content solutions in user-centric and durable ways.
• Drive the UX research strategy and help align the definition and measurement of UX quality including comprehension to inform content design for evolving user needs.
• Plan and prioritize efforts with cross-functional stakeholders and UX peers to define opportunities, drive innovation, and build working relationships across Google.

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 Googles 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.