Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communication, Literature, Business, Marketing, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in UX writing or transferable writing and content strategy.
- Experience working in a UX team collaborating with product management and engineering through the product development process.
- Portfolio demonstrating UX writing excellence, tone and voice, writing guidelines, and other standards.
- Experience working in a UX team and product design environment in collaboration with design, research, product management, and engineering as part of the product development process.
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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 outlook 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 a User Experience Writer, you will be an advocate for Google design, working to shape experiences by creating useful, meaningful text that helps users complete the task. You will collaborate with people in a variety of roles, including designers, researchers, product managers, engineers, legal, and marketing. You will regularly use logic and hard data to inform content choices. You will provide content recommendations that include the right words and sometimes complementary data and images. You will identify and provide the right content solution for particular problems and different audiences, with deliverables that may include UI text, information architecture, localization strategies, content audits, and taxonomy.
Waze is where people and technology meet to solve transportation challenges. It's a platform that empowers users to contribute road data and edit Waze maps to improve the way we move about the world. As the social navigation pioneer, Waze leverages mobile technology and a passionate global community to redefine expectations of today's maps.
Waze is also a household name in Israel, and joining our team is an opportunity to be part of local history and be part of a passionate team and community working to change the way our cities move and make every drive smarter and safer.
Responsibilities
- Deliver clear, concise user-centric writing and content strategy. Act as a subject matter expert for user experience writing.
- Drive content experiences across a given program or domain. Ensure execution for cohesive narratives across all touch points within the product and collaborate effectively with stakeholders on relevant outreach (e.g., tech writing, legal, editorial, communication, marketing, etc.).
- Manage projects from inception to implementation, identifying opportunities and establishing priorities.
- Collaborate with designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to define requirements. Manage stakeholder communication, influencing and adapting to feedback.
- Use writing and editing skills to craft UI text that facilitates user interaction, navigation, and understanding, including onboarding, promotion, error messages, instructional materials, and content for other components of user experience.