Staff UX Writer and Content Designer, XR
Google San Jose, California, United States · $171K–$247K/yr
Software Development · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
You will lead the development of UX writing and content design solutions while defining a common vocabulary for the XR design system. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, legal, and engineering to ensure a consistent user experience across XR products.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 8 years of experience in UX writing, content design, or related fields and a portfolio of their work. A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is required for this role.
Benefits
Full description
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 writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing experience in an agency setting.
- 7 years of experience interacting with executive leadership.
- 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional technology organization.
About the job:
In this role, you will be joining the XR Studio team, you will represent a consistent tone throughout the family of XR products, defining a common vocabulary for the XR design system. You will partner closely with our UX, Product Management (PM), Legal, and Privacy teams to deliver clear, concise strings for our users. All of this results in experiences that our users immediately understand, in both written and spoken word, throughout all of our XR experiences.
For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. Google's XR team is at the forefront of the next major leap – the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where lightweight XR devices like smart glasses and headsets pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $171000 - $247000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + 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 innovative 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, goal, 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.
