Content Strategist

Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced Content Strategist to join their Design Systems team. This team is responsible for creating and maintaining a unified design language across all of their digital products, ensuring a consistent, high-quality user experience through the development and promotion of standardized components, patterns, and guidelines.

The role involves collaborating with product teams to ensure the design system is flexible enough to accommodate various needs while maintaining platform-wide consistency. By developing a cohesive design language that spans all digital surfaces, the team creates seamless and intuitive experiences for users.

About the Role:

Our client is looking for a talented and experienced Content Designer to contribute to their design systems team and enhance user experiences across all products. As a key member of the team, you will design components, patterns, and foundations for the design system while ensuring that standards and documentation are maintained at a high level to facilitate easy adoption by product teams. Your contributions will be made available to internal designers through design tooling, and you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product designers, engineers, and researchers.

You will be responsible for ensuring the design system meets the diverse needs of internal teams and enhances the experience of users. If you’re passionate about systems thinking and user-centered design, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact.

Responsibilities:

• Design and write clear, compelling language for product flows, interface language, educational materials, product names, navigation, taxonomies, and other content.
• Collaborate with product designers to develop new components and patterns for the design system.
• Create or contribute to high-fidelity design mocks using Figma.
• Provide accessibility specifications for design system components and patterns.
• Develop and maintain content design standards and guidelines.
• Apply systems thinking to products by defining extensible design system guidance, conducting audits, and creating information architecture.
• Work closely with engineering, design, research, marketing, and data science teams to bring products from conception to launch.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience as a content designer, UX writer, or in a similar role.
• Proficiency in Figma.
• Experience working with design systems, including developing components, patterns, or foundations.
• Experience creating content design standards and guidelines.
• Proficiency in taxonomies and terminology.
• Examples of wireframes or design mocks co-authored with design tools that have driven team decisions.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, including designers, engineers, and product managers.

Compensation:

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $84.47 to $93.86 per hour, based on several factors, including education, relevant work experience, certifications, and location.

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Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! 

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