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Job Description
As a Senior Content Strategist, you are embedded within the Product Design team and will use your curated content strategy knowledge and gift for language to craft intuitive, outstanding product experiences - helping users accomplish their goals while keeping the focus on business objectives.
Our team is leading a major digital transformation, and our Senior Content Strategists are critical in delivering on our organization's total success by implementing content strategy methodologies and UX writing principles to formulate a consistent and unified voice across products.
What you'll be doing

• Implement content strategy methodologies to help plan for the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable content.
• Write clear, consistent, concise user-interface copy for the customer, field, and home office experiences.
• Lead content team workshops to shape, maintain and evolve style guide (editorial, voice and tone, and standards guidelines) documentation.
• Collaborate with research, UX and visual designers, engineers, product managers, and many others throughout the enterprise to deliver compelling UX solutions.
• Use logic, hard data, and emotional intelligence to guide content choices that balance the needs of customers with business objectives.
• Develop content processes to support a cohesive content ecosystem.
• Act as a subject matter specialist, succinctly present and rationalize work to partners.
• Use data and research to evaluate content's impact.
• Help define a clear and repeatable process so the organization better understands how to work with the content strategy team.

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

• Content auditing/analyzing existing content and content ecosystems
• Defining and implementing taxonomies and content structures
• Content modeling
• Governing content
• Ability to help streamline narrative across multiple platforms and touch points with the goal to build templated content where possible.
• Strong writing skills and command of the English language (grammar, spelling and vocabulary).
• Proficient at UX writing or content design.
• Participates in and informs the intake and ideation process.
• Experience mentoring/informally leading others.
• Be an advocate for and adhere to brand voice, tone, and style requirements and standards.
• Familiar with approaches driven by data that take into consideration business metrics, site assessment, competitive analysis, and research.
• Ability to balance multiple projects; adaptable to constantly evolving priorities.
• Ability to collaborate, seek clarity, and work independently to execute tasks.
• Willingness to help teammates and learn from them.
• Strong work ethic and ability to maintain high levels of output.
• Openness to receiving feedback/constructive critiques as well as provide it.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Individual who enjoys working in a collaborative environment.
• Can simplify difficult concepts and communicate them in an easy, understandable way.
• Influence partners and advocate for effective content solutions.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in a regulated industry like financial/banking, insurance, &/or healthcare
• Experience working in product design, marketing or tech organizations, agencies, freelance.
• Portfolio with content strategy assets, UX-focused writing samples, and style guidelines.

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