Senior UX Content Designer, YouTube Commerce
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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.
- Experience creating and scaling content frameworks, playbooks, and standards.
- Experience applying systems thinking to design content solutions for product ecosystems.
- 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 experience in writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing in an agency setting.
- 3 years of experience working in a cross-functional technology organization.
- Experience with designing for products that have legal, policy, or regulatory requirements.
- Experience working on products including subscriptions and payments.
- Experience in the media, entertainment, or technology industries.
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.
The Commerce team accelerates YouTube's paid ecosystem growth by supporting scalable, compliant, and innovative commercial journeys for all users (e.g., internal teams, creators, partners, and viewers). The team is responsible for growing YouTube's business by enabling scaled, compliant, and innovative paid products, and for crafting and maintaining a collection of scalable components to be leveraged by YouTube when creating commerce experiences.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.
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
- Produce clear, consistent, and concise UX writing across multiple platforms by applying YouTube's tone and content standards.
- Provide strategic direction for content design, and develop frameworks and playbooks to ensure consistency across the YouTube ecosystem.
- Partner with UX, product management, engineering, legal, and policy to drive alignment and communicate design decisions and their rationale.
- Weave user research, data, and platform constraints into content proposals, and formulate and test content design hypotheses.
- Lead workshops to share knowledge with the team.
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