Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Search

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communication, Literature, Business, Marketing, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of experience in writing, editorial, marketing, UX writing, content design, or related, as well as leading content strategy projects.
  
• Experience with mobile applications and related technology and products.
  
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link and/or access instructions).
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing in an agency setting and interacting with executive leadership.
  
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional technology organization.
  
• Experience designing for mobile applications on both iOS and Android.

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 help evolve this story and create a content strategy and personality for the future of the Google Search Apps on Android and iOS. The team has an opportunity to have an impact on the mobile experience for users worldwide.In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

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 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, direction, 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.
  
• Develop the overall product story, including naming new products and features, helping the team explore what resonates with users, and writing and implementing those new mobile-first content strategies.