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:
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