UX Writer Job Description
UX writer
provides on-site expertise in technical writing and editing, process analysis, and interactive business forms design and development.
UX Writer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Understand and promote best practices in content strategy, SEO and usability
Advocate for users while understanding product and business goals
Provide feedback on writing and design
Build and scale editorial processes
Use the Nest brand voice to write precise, accurate and helpful customer-focused copy, including notifications, error messages, settings and welcome flows
Get requirements from and buy-in on copy from Marketing, Legal, Privacy, Product, Localization and Design teams
Create clear, easy to follow copy specs that serve as a source of truth for design, engineering and test
Explain complicated processes in clear, jargon-free language
Present your work and articulate your design thinking to designers, product owners and other stakeholders
Create and evolve a style guide, glossary, and other content resources, including voice and tone
UX Writer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for UX Writer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: UX, UI
Education for UX Writer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the UX writer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Writing, Technical, Design, Marketing, Psychology, Education, Creative Writing
Skills for UX Writer
Desired skills for UX writer include:
Sketch
Photoshop
Illustrator
Online technology and related products
Design process
For editing text in mocks
For example
Preparing screenshots
IOS
Critical business
Desired experience for UX writer includes:
Passionate about punctuation and partial to puns (affection for alliteration is optional)
Ability to identify problems, analyze the situation and make appropriate recommendations and decisions
Minimum of 1 year of game design experience or experience in game production
A portfolio of your work is required, demonstrating finished projects with a high degree of sophistication and polish
Ability to manage multiple parallel-path projects, often with competing deadlines and resource needs
Specialized training in the field of UX and/or design
UX Writer Examples
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UX Writer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for an UX writer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for UX writer
- Determining usage scenarios, optimizing workflows, information architecture and data flows
- Produce user requirements specifications, personas, storyboards and scenarios
- Plan, prioritize, coordinate, and conduct user requirements analysis, task analysis, conceptual modelling, and usability testing for automobile manufactures in US and Europe considering the AAM guidelines US and ESoP (European Statement of Principles on Human Machine Interface)
- Coordinating, planning and executing usability tests with the occlusion method and driving simulator, includes critical path analysis, measuring data, reference test and user interviews
- Working with an interdisciplinary team that includes other human factors, designers, project management, business and brand strategists, and hardware and software developers
- Work with packaging and product teams to develop in box and out of box materials, including quick start guides, marketing materials, safety, regulatory, and warranty-related information for hardware products
- Create and edit content for customer emails and websites that achieve business objectives and support the brand
- Collaborate with compliance engineer, product manager, and lawyers to develop safety and regulatory information that addresses specific regulatory requirements for different countries
- Focus on content strategies that increase usability through navigation, labels, informational writing, error messaging, toasts, customer emails, and other elements of the customer experience
- Work proactively to encourage designers and other team members to consider content strategy before or during conceptual design work, so that text is always a meaningful component
Qualifications for UX writer
- Demonstrated ability to drive and communicate process and author clear instructions
- Comfortable juggling multiple projects at the same time
- A deep understanding of UX and how copy and design support each other
- Ability to find the absolute shortest way to clearly communicate an idea
- Comfort with SVN and working in prerelease builds
- An outgoing and confident personality
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for an UX writer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for UX writer
- Write clear and engaging content for customers across multiple touch points, including micro-copy, UI labels, emails and long-form copy
- Explain complicated processes in clear, jargon-free language for mobile and web (interaction flows, emails, product messaging)
- Initiate and drive all UX copywriting projects from ideation, planning and launch through testing and implementation, ensuring that they align to our branded experience
- Collaborate with UX designers, delivery managers, marketing, and creative services to launch and evolve new features
- Observe and conduct discovery research
- Advocate for consumers with an understanding of brand, product, and business goals
- Write clear, concise user-interface text for products
- Collaborate with designers, researchers, prototypers, product managers, and engineers to define requirements
- Develop concepts for early-stage products
- 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
Qualifications for UX writer
- Experience with wireframes or functional specs is a plus
- Ability to influence others to set and achieve goals, manage multiple parallel-path projects, often with competing deadlines and resource needs
- Specialized training in the field of UX design, best practices in adaptive/responsive design, mobile design and voice ui
- Use a combination of data analysis, user research, benchmarking, and content audits to identify high-impact opportunities for improvement across key customer engagement areas
- A portfolio of your work is required demonstrating finished projects with sophistication and polish that clearly showcases your contributions and impact
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Communications, English, HCI, Writing or equivalent
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of UX writer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for UX writer
- Collaborate with designers and others to define requirements
- Support multiple projects, managing stakeholders and deadlines
- Use insights from testing and usage data to fine tune content
- Provide guidance on UX writing to designers and others
- Contribute to a broader discussion about style and voice
- Take part in early stage concepts explorations
- Collaborate with UX designers and researchers to craft and hone seller-facing language across a variety of contexts from UI components to conversational building blocks to policy statements
- Participate in the creation of an organization-wide program to raise the bar for all seller communications
- Create clear and concise copy for apps, web applications, and websites
- Own the customer journeys from copy perspective and make sure that there are no gaps in UX across all channels and touch points linked to the products
Qualifications for UX writer
- At least 3 years of experience as a UX writer, copywriter, or similar role with Internet companies, retail, design studios or interactive/ad agencies
- Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture, strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Familiarity with the technical considerations needed when writing
- Bachelor’s degree in Technical Communication, Information Design, Instructional Design, or equivalent work experience
- A portfolio of successful and innovative contextualized solutions
- Master’s degree or greater in Technical Communication, Information Design, Instructional Design, or equivalent work experience
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an UX writer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for UX writer
- Manage the schedule for copy related matters to ensure deadlines are met
- Review analytics data and existing copies and suggest alternative copies/content to improve existing UX
- Create copy guidelines to ensure that all copy across our products is aligned to our standards
- Optimise the workflow for copy production
- Write and edit clear, concise product copy (in-app copy, notifications, error messages, feature naming, and more)
- Be an advocate for a vision for product content across all channels
- Write hard-hitting copy that drives action and performance
- Translate complicated concepts into blissfully jargon-free copy that makes sense
- Work with user research team to implement user feedback and insights
- Collaborate with designers, engineers, marketers, project managers, and stakeholders on a daily basis
Qualifications for UX writer
- Leadership and influence in the content strategy and UI writing professional space
- 2+ years of information architecture or instructional design
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across a wide range of stakeholders in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- 3 years of professional experience writing for websites, mobile apps, software, or other digital platforms
- Master’s Degree in Communications, Master’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or Master’s Degree in Design
- Bachelor’s degree along with 4+ years of Content Management and Web Writing experience
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of UX writer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for UX writer
- Adhere to deadlines and manage own time over multiple assignments
- Work cross-functionally to understand the requirements for projects and produce clear, concise, helpful user experiences
- Collaborate with Engineering to ensure high-quality and accurate implementation of your work
- Give thoughtful feedback to other writers and present your work for feedback
- Articulate copy choices and the thinking behind your work
- Contribute to a product team of designers, product managers, engineers and business analysts to create UX copy for mockups
- Offer a content strategy perspective throughout the product development process to improve the overall experience and ensure accuracy and consistency across form factors
- Work with cross-functional LOBs to drive consensus across teams and advocate for solutions that balance stakeholder requirements with user engagement goals
- Develop content frameworks, product narratives, and other deliverables that explain your recommendations
- Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your solutions
Qualifications for UX writer
- UX writing and content strategy development, proofreading and editing experience
- Mobile, Web/email, marketing, style guide writing/development
- Familiarity with the basic principles of content strategy and user experience
- Demonstrated ability to empathize with customers, analyze their needs, and develop a writing plan to meet those needs
- Experience creating interface copy, contextual help, support content, and product documentation for external customers (minimum 3 years)
- Experience translating technical information into common, user-centric language (minimum 3 years)