Staff UX Writer Content Designer, Google Ads

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communication, Literature, Business, Marketing, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in writing, editorial, marketing, UX writing, 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 and/or access instructions).
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing experience in an agency setting.
  
• 7 years of experience interacting with executive leadership.
  
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional technology organization.
  
• Experience with user-focused product writing (e.g., work in hardware, software, digital agency, or other relevant product area).
  

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.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $159,000-$239,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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 complex user, product, and business problems. 
  
• Build alignment by collaborating with product managers, team members, and other cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., marketing, legal, developers) to develop a product narrative, vision, 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.