UX Writer - London, United Kingdom - Fitbit

Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communication, Literature, Business, Marketing, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically experience on UXfocused product writing and shaping content for multidisciplinary projects.
• Typically portfolio highlighting UXfocused writing samples and style guidelines.

Preferred qualifications:

• Typically 2 years of writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing experience in an agency setting.
• Typically 2 years of experience working in a complex, crossfunctional technology organization.
• Typically experience developing information architecture for complex documentation sets or product suites, including localization and accessibility best practices.
• Typically knowledge of online technology and related products, including web and mobile UI and tools.
• Typically familiarity with user experience research principles and practices and how to use data to provide informed user insights.

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.

You use your gift for language to design intuitive, delightful product experiences that help users accomplish their goals. You're also a content strategist, defining product vision and narratives across multiple platforms and touch points. As a writer, you have a portfolio of work that demonstrates your gift for simplifying and improving user experiences.

You will drive guidelines and best practices, manage complex, cross-functional projects, and work with leadership to set goals and implement roadmaps.

You provide direction and mentorship to writers and support to peers.

Fitbit's wide range of innovative products, including smartwatches, trackers, and a smart scale, help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration, and guidance to reach their health and fitness goals.

Coupled with our leading software and Fitbit Premium, our immersive platform experience delivers personalized experiences, insights, and guidance to support our users' health and wellness.

Fitbit's mission has always been to help make everyone in the world healthier and now, as part of Google we'll be able to make health even more accessible to everyone.

Responsibilities:

• Use writing and content design skills to create UI text that facilitates user navigation, as well onboarding, promos, error messages, instructional materials, and other components of the endtoend user experience.
• Manage projects from needs assessment to implementation; identify opportunities, establish priorities, secure resources, and manage stakeholders.
• Collaborate with designers, researchers, legal, marketing, product managers, and engineers; Influence and adapt to stakeholders and their feedback.
• Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship to junior UX writers and educate crossfunctional partners on the role of UX writing and content strategy throughout the product development process.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.

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