Job Description

Our client, a search-marketing tool, is looking for a UX Writer. In this role, you’ll deliver writing support and content for a variety of stakeholders. In particular, you’ll learn and apply writing standards to new kinds of content work that ultimately improves search quality in the client’s products. You’ll also work closely with a UX Writing Lead to evolve these guidelines and content for different types of user and product use cases, and review and quality check similar content delivered by other writing groups.

You’ll partner with Product, Engineering, and other teams to identify and resolve problems, and deliver work on-time against regular product deadlines and milestones. You’ll also deliver other critical aspects of this content work, including but not limited to evaluation, editing, training, and localization work.

Role responsibilities:

• Write clear, concise user-interface text and related content for products.
• Learn, apply, and evolve writing and content guidelines for a particular user experience.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for these guidelines.
• Drive clear and consistent product language and content across a given domain.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners from inception through execution.
• Guide context for translations and collaborate with linguists and local stakeholders to ensure local sensitivity and understanding.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in writing for consumer-facing user-interfaces, technical writing, journalism, communications, or specialized writing, such as science, education, or legal writing.
• Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Journalism, Technical Writing, UX, HCI, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of relevant industry experience, including partnering with Eng, Product, UX and other cross-functional teams to build products
• Experience in user-focused product writing, including work in hardware, software, digital agencies, or other relevant settings.
• Proven ability to learn and apply writing and content standards with minimal supervision, attention-to-detail, and consistent high-quality deliverables.
• Portfolio of writing work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience developing information architecture for complex documentation sets or product suites.
• Experience with localization and accessibility best practices.
• Knowledge of online technology and related products, including web and mobile UI and tools.
• Familiarity with user experience research principles and practices and how to use data to provide informed user insights.
• Basic knowledge of a design tool like Figma.

Additional Information

Joining Dentsu Creative, you will be part of a creative network, delivering ideas that are brought alive in new ways. Along the way, you will team up with inspiring people across the world and become part of a truly inclusive culture where everyone is given the opportunity to thrive and create the best work of their careers; always learning and always listening to shape ideas, create culture and change behavior. By bringing together the capabilities, experience and relationships of our collective experts, the opportunities for personal growth and development are endless.

We are united by four signature strengths:

Boundless Creativity – Kitsune Fox : In Japanese culture – the Kitsune Fox sees the future. We run towards the future, forever asking: what’s next? Our imagination has no limit. Our clients seek us out because we believe there is no problem we cannot solve with the power of modern creativity.

Intelligent Scale - Ryujin Dragon : The Ryujin Dragon controls the ocean and the tides. We flow the right talent around the right brief in the right moment, wherever it sits in the world. We scale our unique ideas with precision, using intelligent technology to make personal connections with millions around the world.

Obsessive Craft - Orizuru Crane : The Orizuru Crane carries the soul up to paradise. It inspires the most classic and iconic Japanese origami. We elevate the soul of our work with an obsessive focus on craft, nurturing the next-gen craft skills needed to soar in a modern world.

Radical Collaboration - Kohaku Koi : The Koi swim upstream against the tide, united as one. We chart new territory through the power of radical collaboration. We seamlessly connect Creativity, Media and CXM to imagine new solutions at the intersection of craft, data, culture, and innovation.

Our Values ****

We believe our work can only resonate in the modern world if the people behind it reflect the modern work. We can only be truly relevant when we create a truly inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. That means – we are tough on the work but gentle with each other. We lead with empathy and are always listening and always learning. We support each other, we cheer for each other, we win together. We celebrate difference as the only way to make the work that makes a difference.

About dentsu
Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society www.dentsu.com.

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact your recruiter if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.