Staff UX Strategic Writer and Content Designer, Workspace
Sunnyvale, CA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in UX writing, content design, technical writing, writing, editorial, marketing, 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:
- 8 years of experience in speech writing, executive communications, marketing, UX writing, or strategic storytelling within the technology sector.
- 7 years of experience interacting with executive leadership.
- 5 years of experience working in a cross-functional technology organization.
- Experience working with design teams to build presentations.
- Ability to understand technical concepts (e.g., AI/ML, cloud collaboration) and translate them into benefits for a non-technical audience.
- Ability to provide direct feedback to leadership and pivot narratives in fast-moving environments.
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.
As the Staff UX Strategic Writer, you will serve as the narrative architect for the chief product officer (CPO) of Google Workspace. In this role, you will translate product roadmaps and goals into compelling narratives that resonate with global audiences, customers, senior leaders, and users. You will synthesize product strategy, user experience principles, and market trends into a cohesive idea throughout all forms of media.
AI will change the future of work in profound ways, and our products— Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Vids and Meet are at the forefront. From pre-computed summaries for email threads, summaries for meetings, and videos created from a document using lifelike AI avatars, our AI opportunity is huge. Our mission is to meaningfully connect people so they can create, build, and grow together and as part of the team you can build how productivity tools should work 5-10 years into the future. You will work with model builders (Google DeepMind), work with exceptional leaders, and have the ability to impact billions of users across the world.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $165,000-$245,000 + 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
- Build and maintain the narrative for the CPO, ensuring strategic consistency across all internal and external touchpoints.
- Lead script development and storytelling for industry events, including Google I/O and Google Cloud Next.
- Author high-impact talking points, op-eds, and briefing materials for media engagements and analyst briefings.
- Create tailored presentations for client meetings and strategic briefings for Google’s senior leadership.
- Collaborate with Workspace leadership and UX design to internalize product roadmaps and ensure storytelling/demos integrate seamlessly with the narrative.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.