Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Journalism, Technical Writing, UX, HCI, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in shaping content for multi-disciplinary projects.
• A portfolio of UX-focused writing samples and style guidelines.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in user-focused writing, including work in hardware, software, digital agency, documentation, or journalism.
• Knowledge of online technology and related products, including web and mobile UI and tools.
• Ability to lead, collaborate and influence (with and without formal authority) engineering, design and product management teams.

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.

Our team is responsible for designing elegant, accessible, and scalable solutions for retail advertisers primarily on Google Ads and on other merchant and manufacturer facing tools across Google.

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

• Collaborate closely with UX Designers, UX Researchers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to support retail advertisers to create and manage advertising across all Google surfaces.
• Advocate for elegant, accessible, and scalable solutions, focusing on retail advertisers, partnering with platform and channel teams in Google Ads UX and across other merchant and manufacturer facing tools in Commerce UX
• Define experiences that scale to meet diverse needs of small to large advertisers and agencies
• Establish new design patterns and language for the next generation of advertising that relies on machine learning to optimize for multiple advertising goals and complex advertising partnerships