Remote Content Designer

Lincolnshire, IL
zDO NOT USE Contract / Full time
smartdept.inc is hiring a Content Designer for our Human Resources client!
 
The Content Designer will apply a strong content POV, deep understanding of user experience (UX) and set the bar for quality and innovation. The ideal candidate will come with *at least* 1 year of experience. 
what you'll do:
  • Collaborate with a world-class team of Product Designers, UX Design – Researchers, Product Managers & Engineers
  • Create and drive the content strategy across products
  • Produce high quality scenario-based content to help people win the future of their work lives
  • Work with raw content from subject matter experts and architects
  • Model and format content into viable, feasible and desired solutions
  • Research and study the subject and context to inform content
  • Write, curate and edit content for accuracy, clarity and usability
  • Demonstrate ability to evaluate and design for the interactions between language and design elements to construct a logical, compelling narrative throughout user/client journey
  • Offer a content strategy perspective throughout the product development process, and influence strategic decisions across and within products to improve the overall experience and ensure consistency across platforms
  • Dig into user research and consumer insights to identify, inform, and validate your work
  • Leverage personas, journey maps and site data to develop content that targets user needs and supports business goals.
  • Communicate your findings, recommendation, and content specifications through deliverables such as content matrices, user scenarios, presentation decks, comps, prototypes and style guides
  • Develop feature content and communication strategies as concepts become prototypes and beyond
  • Simplify complex health, wealth, career and wellbeing content users
  • Ability to collaborate and run Content Design workshops and Sprints
  • Help support a shared design vision across the company by building consensus on priorities leading to product design and execution
  • Grow a culture of design and ship with speed, consistency, and quality; rebuilding our culture
 
what you'll need: 
  • Live and breathe to design the future and have an award-winning portfolio (product, websites, apps, etc) to prove it
  • Experience with or background in writing
  • Advanced Content design skills
  • Fluency in best practices for information architecture, content strategy, design thinking
  • Expertise in research tools (e.g., Optimal Workshop, survey tooling, Usertesting.com, etc)
  • Experience in design tools Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch, Miro/Mural, Invision
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
  • Expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch, Miro/Mural, Invision
  • 1+ years of experience in Content Designer or Copywriting roles at Design or Digital Agencies, Startups or Fortune 500 companies
  • 1+ years of experience working collaboratively with engineering/dev, design and user research teams
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