Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Google Maps

3 Months ago • 6-8 Years • Product Design • Editorial • UI/UX Design • $134,000 PA - $198,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior UX Writer and Content Designer at Google Maps, you'll craft compelling and user-friendly text for key Google Maps products, particularly the mobile app. You'll collaborate with product, design, marketing, and engineering teams to shape product narratives and ensure consistent language across platforms. Responsibilities include developing innovative UX writing solutions, leading the improvement of content design processes, and influencing cross-functional teams. You'll leverage data and empathy to inform content choices and contribute to a seamless user experience. This role requires strong writing skills, experience in UX writing and content design, and a proven ability to collaborate effectively within a cross-functional team.
Must have:
  • 6+ years experience in writing/UX writing/content design
  • Lead content strategy projects
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Develop innovative UX writing solutions
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Good to have:
  • Agency experience
  • Experience with maps or geo-spatial data
  • Experience defining writing guidelines
  • Conducting language and design audits
  • Experience with AI writing
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree 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.
  • 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 writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing experience in an agency setting and interacting with executive leadership.
  • 3 years of experience working in a cross-functional technology organization.
  • Experience with defining and influencing the adoption of writing guidelines and language patterns.
  • Experience conducting language and design audits across products and feature sets.
  • Experience within maps or geo-spatial, or with writing for new domains (e.g., AI).

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 deliver UX Writing and Content Design for a key part of Google Maps (e.g., Maps, Search, and Explore experiences), with a focus on Google Maps mobile (GMM). You will identify opportunities for writing and content, partner with product and design teams to build experiences and scalable systems, and define experiences.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.

The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $134,000-$198,000 + 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 .

Responsibilities

  • Understand and advocate for all UX functions to the product life-cycle. 
  • Drive the development of innovative UX writing and content design solutions to 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, idea, 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 project goals.

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