Staff Content Strategist

Company: Mozilla
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

We're looking for a passionate and capable individual to envision and communicate the future of Security and Privacy products for Mozilla. Working in a close and participative manner with user experience, product and engineering teams, you will advocate and craft the content for products, services, and systems that put the needs, desires, and aspirations of people at the center.

If your passion is helping people, problem-solving, working in an environment that allows you to stretch your human-centered design skills, while supporting a mission that is driven to ensure the Internet is a global public resource open and accessible, then this is the right position for you! Additionally, this job is for you if you consider yourself a creative worker, a forward-thinking and open problem solver, and passionate about working toward just and equitable solutions for diverse communities.

As a Staff Content Designer on the UX team, you are a recognized expert in the role language plays in the design process and will lead the long-term content vision. You will guide and coach others on team guidelines, quality standards and best practices. You will collaborate closely with UX designers and user researchers on fully remote, cross-functional teams to co-design experiences in our core browser products. You'll write the words that help people accomplish tasks with our Privacy and Security products.

In This Role, You Are Responsible For

• Creating content requirements and all content deliverables for priority projects (deliverables include content audits, strategy and planning documents, microcopy, taxonomies, nomenclature and style guidelines, copy decks, release notes, etc.).
• Working closely with your UX colleagues, as well as product management, engineering, localization, and legal, to define and measure success. You will be responsible for ensuring the resulting content meets requirements and is production-ready.
• Leading the content design practice by managing existing guidelines, proposing new guidelines, and sharing insights and best practices within and outside of the UX department.
• Defining the content team's success metrics, sharing your work and providing feedback to other design team members to ensure a cohesive design language across products and experiences.
• Using existing research and data to surface insights that help to solve business and user problems.
• Maintaining strong relationships with senior stakeholders, and partnering with designers and researchers to run evaluative and usability tests of prototypes, with a focus on copy and content design issues.
  We Are Seeking a Team Member Who
  
  • Has a portfolio that demonstrates the ability to solve user problems and create copy and content design deliverables for product development
  • Has 8+ years of professional UX writing/content design/content strategy, editorial, or copywriting experience
  • Has experience working on a product design team in an agile environment
  • Can write clearly and concisely, with an appropriate voice for product, and a lens for global localization
  • Has a passion for quality content and thoughtful work
  • Strives to understand the needs of users, and leads with research and insights
  • Interest in and commitment to inclusive writing
    If you don't meet 100% of the qualifications above we still encourage you to apply
    
    As a successful Staff Content Designer, you are able to:
    
    • Advocate for a product, and especially content, that is accessible, inclusive, and reflective of the needs of diverse audiences
    • Demonstrate how your content addresses business goals and user needs
    • Collaborate effectively and proactively with people within and outside of UX
    • Communicate ideas articulately and compellingly
    • Bring a holistic, systems-thinking approach to every project
    • Drive to clarity, and serve as a connective tissue between teams
    • Manage competing priorities efficiently and act on decisions in the face of ambiguity
    • Help grow the reach and impact of the content design practice
    • Bring a healthy sense of humor and perspective
      About Content Design At Mozilla Privacy And Security
      
      As the second content designer on the User Experience team, you'll be joining a small-yet-mighty team that supports Mozilla VPN, Firefox Relay and Firefox Monitor products. Content designers typically work across multiple products and work closely with product designers to define, test and deliver impactful product experiences. We also support as-needed string requests, develop and implement content frameworks, and support content needs for the Privacy and Security design system.
      
      Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
      
      Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company's core mission. We encourage applications from members of equity-seeking communities including but not limited to women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.
      
      We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
      
      We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. We will provide reasonable accommodation to an employee or job applicant with a disability.
      
      Group: D
      
      Req ID: R1918

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