Dominic Smith

About Dominic Smith

Award-Winning Writer, Editor, Content Strategist, New York Times Bestselling AuthorMore than 15 years of professional writing and editorial experience, spanning in-house and freelance roles, including managing editor, senior writer, senior technical writer, and senior content strategist. My writing on technical and non-technical topics has appeared in numerous print and online outlets, including Fortune, Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, InformationWeek, InfoWorld, Internet Retailer, PCWorld, VentureBeat and MarketingProfs. I am also the author of six novels, including a New York Times bestseller, most recently with Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Experience

1. Editor-in-chief, Google Workspace

   Google

   Dec 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Responsible for thought leadership and the blog ecosystem for Google Workspace, a productivity solution that fuels collaboration for more than 3 billion users and 10 million businesses worldwide. I create and manage content and thought leadership research programs that reach and engage millions of people in a given year, across Google channels and on third-party sites like The Atlantic, The New York Times, Forbes, and The Economist.Working across engineering, editorial, PR, comms, product marketing, campaign marketing, and outside agencies, I develop stories and curate research that highlight Google\'s unique point of view around the future of work, productivity, and collaboration. I also help shape go-to-market product narratives, keynotes, messaging, positioning, and persona development.Highlights- Editor for the USA Today bestseller, Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing, by Laura Mae Martin, Google\'s Productivity Advisor- Migrated Workspace blog to its own domain and grew traffic by 92% YoY- Developed end-to-end processes for blog and story development, including templates, an image repository, a voice and style guide, AI-based review tools, and reader personas based on surveys and quantitative data- Developed and launched the first-ever AI newsletter for Google Workspace, AI@Work on LinkedIn, driving 350k subscribers in 2 years. Also grew an external email thought leadership newsletter from zero to 2M+ subscribers in 3 years- Developed keynotes, spotlight presentations, and bylined articles for senior Google executives- Designed and managed several large global surveys around work, productivity, and the use of AI, including authoring of the resulting research reports.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  MFA, Writing

  2000 — 2003

• University of Iowa

  BA, Anthropology, Writing

  1991 — 1994