Lead Technical Writer

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Job Category

Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure

Job Details

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Lead Content Designer

Office hybrid in San Francisco or Seattle

The Sales + Growth CDX team is on a mission to create products that are easy to use and set a high standard for user experience at Salesforce. Our content design team works collaboratively, iteratively, and strategically with our design, engineering, writing, research, and product partners to bring these designs to life. 

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• You look at information architecture to make sure the narrative flow and structure of the design is logical and intuitive for users to follow.

• The experiences you create use simple language to reduce product complexity. You write the words, decide where they go, and how to deliver them inside our apps to help customers achieve their goals with Salesforce.

• Collaboratively with research and design, you work iteratively at the start of the product development cycle. Along the way, you'll gain experience gathering feedback, presenting to partners, peers, and leaders about your work.

Required experience/skills:

• Excellent in-app writing and editing skills

• Eye for design and information architecture     

• Ability to meet tight deadlines and communicate effectively with the leadership team

• Ability to adhere to styles and processes

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly

• Focus on quality and details

• Effective collaborator

• Customer advocate

• A related technical degree required

What we are looking for:

• 4+ years managing complex content projects across multiple content portfolios as a content designer.

• 2+ years developing and implementing content strategy.

• Strong collaboration skills to partner with stakeholders to identify key customer scenarios and prioritize content.

• Proven ability to write across a spectrum of content types— UI text, onboarding, etc.

• Experience in successfully partnering with SMEs to obtain, clarify, and validate content.

• A strong customer focus with experience writing for engineering audiences.

• Ability to meet tight deadlines with multiple deliverables.

• Ability to adapt and make progress while dealing with ambiguity.

• Great people and communication skills.

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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $155,400 to $213,800.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $169,600 to $233,200.