Sr. Ux Writer, Amazon Advertiser User Experience

DESCRIPTION

Are you a seasoned UX Writer who is passionate about design systems and delivering elevated writing for user experiences?

The Advertising User Experience team is looking for a Senior UX Writer with exceptional skills for crafting simple straightforward, and human copy that makes even the most complex concepts intuitive and easy to understand. Our team builds innovative tools that are anchored in a robust UX design system to simplify and optimize advertising for our customers. We work backwards from the customer’s needs in order to deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily with our world-class products.

As a Senior UX writer on the Ads team, you will help craft experiences that allow advertisers of all sizes to effectively advertise and promote their brands and products on Amazon and beyond. In this role, you will work directly with UX, product, and engineering to deliver engaging user experiences, as well as translating writing guidance into our design system, Storm, to help UX writing scale while raising the bar. You will define and create standards, patterns, and mechanisms to elevate and scale our UX writing to be crisp, clear, and transparent.

Key job responsibilities

• Communicate complex concepts clearly by crafting advertiser-facing content for a broad suite of products.
• Create product content that is clear, helpful, human, scalable, and inclusive, being mindful of internationalization and the nuances and interpretations of language.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (designers, researchers, product managers, and engineering), driving consensus across teams and advocating for solutions that balance customer needs and business goals.
• Earn trust with product managers to develop shared vision and use research and data to identify opportunities and inform decisions.
• Develop content frameworks, guidelines, product narratives, and other deliverables that explain your recommendations and help people understand the practice of UX writing and content strategy.
• Work in a start-up style environment, where iteration is encouraged, thinking long-term and strategically while still achieving quick wins and short-term objectives.
• Make sure that customers have the right information at the right time. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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• 6+ years of design experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Experience communicating to a diverse, global audience
• Impeccable attention to detail; excellent grammar and writing skills.
• Experience creating terminology and usage lists, content patterns, and UI text style guidelines.
• Positive energy and leadership capabilities, as well as a willingness to work outside of a typical content role to deliver holistic solutions to customer problems.
• Proven success at creating and maintaining cross-functional working relationships.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working within rapid, iterative design and agile development processes.
• Experience with: Design systems, content inventories and audits, content mapping and modeling, voice and tone guidelines, and governance documentation.
• Successful delivery of multi-channel content strategy for a global audience.
• Experience writing for advertising or enterprise products.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.