UX Product Writer - TEKsystems

Description:

This person will be joining a growing team within the client's deign organization and will work on high impact projects for in-vehicle experiences. They will play a key role in helping to develop UX content in the touchscreen of the vehicle supporting both over the air update language and core features in the operating system for both new model years and the legacy system.

Summary

Do you have a passion for user-centered problem-solving and storytelling? Are you obsessed with studying, understanding, and responding to human needs? Do you want to create engaging products that solve real problems and create unique emotional experiences? Then imagine what you can do working with a like-minded, multi-disciplinary team in our User Experience group.

Our growing User Experience team is seeking a passionate and talented Content Designer to create customer-facing User Interfaces across multiple brands and digital platforms. Our work touches millions of lives across In-Vehicle, Web, Mobile and Wearable interfaces.

As a Content Designer, you would collaborate with designers, researchers, technologists, and business stakeholders to craft meaningful experiences for our customers through thoughtful design. The ideal candidate will exhibit detailed mastery of the English language, an understanding of and commitment to user-centered design, and have experience writing for digital products.

Description

Content Designers will support multi-disciplinary teams focused on translating human needs into viable product concepts using iterative, human-centered design. Content contributions will include guidelines and documentation for our Design System, and user interface copy for cohesive cross-channel experiences in eCommerce, Connected Vehicle, Mobile Apps, and the brand.

Responsibilities

• Provide both strategic direction and writing for user interface copy

• Help create and maintain user experience guidelines that are in line with our brands, voice, and tone

• Drive a vision for content across all channels for a given product domain

• Collaborate with designers, researchers, prototypers, product managers, and engineers to define requirements

• Help coordinate translations, improve writing tools and processes, format documents, and generally lend a hand as needed to produce world-class software and hardware products

• Find smart ways to use data and research to evaluate and improve content

• Act as a subject matter expert and point of contact for user experience writing

Key Characteristics

Empathy: You are curious about how other people work, live, and think, you will enjoy meeting the users of our products, and thinking about content by visualizing yourself as one who will consume it.

Superb communication skills: You can communicate broad concepts as well as fine detail through written and graphical media. You can convey design solutions through sketches and visualizations, as well as through prose.

A quick study: You have the ability to understand systems and processes, both in software and in the real world. You will be required to digest and understand the many complex factors that govern vehicle design, from social and peer norms to a multinational regulatory environment. You will be able to successfully navigate those factors as you create content solutions.

Outstanding collaboration skills: You are an effortless collaborator. You welcome ideas from any source, and are prepared to build on them to make the work of your team successful.

Requirements

• Native fluency in written and verbal English

• Experience writing user interface copy for web, mobile, or in-vehicle interfaces

• Experience creating content frameworks, navigational nomenclature, and taxonomies

• Experience working with Engineering and Product Management teams as part of the software development process

• Strong portfolio with work samples showcasing expertise in copy writing for digital products, product documentation, or content strategies

• Open to feedback and knows how give and receive criticism

• Strong written, visual, and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work collaboratively

• Ability to think critically about user journeys and content flows and how they impact design

Skills:

Technical writing, Writing skills, Ux, UX Writing, Product Writer, Technical documentation

Top Skills Details:

Technical writing,Writing skills,Ux,UX Writing,Product Writer

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Technical writing experince

Product writing experince

Experience Level:

Intermediate Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.