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Senior Content Designer, Material Design

Sunnyvale, United States

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of experience in UX writing, content design, technical writing, writing, editorial, marketing, or related, as well as leading content strategy projects.
Experience on UX-focused product writing and shaping content for multi-disciplinary 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:

5 years of experience interacting with executive leadership.
5 years of writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing experience in an agency setting.
3 years of experience working in a cross-functional technology organization.
Experience developing information architecture for documentation sets or product suites, including localization and accessibility best practices.
Knowledge of online technology and related products, including web and mobile UI and tools.
Familiarity with user experience research principles and practices and how to use data to provide informed user insights.

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.

We're excited about the future of design systems in the AI era. Material Design has more opportunity than ever.

In this role, you will act as proactive and enthusiastic writer to help us make Material even more appealing through clear, engaging content. You will also act as a writer, to flex across product writing, long-form writing, and creative writing and will be passionate about user experience design, design systems, and will helping making the complex simple.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s 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 Google’s 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 $138,000-$202,000 + 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

Understand and advocate for all UX functions as essential to the product lifecycle.
Drive the development of 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, 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.

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 Google's 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.

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