UX Content Designer

We are seeking a UX Content Designer with expertise in content management system design,  content structure, content modeling, content inventorying/auditing, information architecture, taxonomy, technical writing, and content management system user training.

In this role, the UX Content Designer brings a deep knowledge of UX and content principles, practices, user research, and can collaborate effectively with stakeholders, designers, product managers, delivery managers, and software engineers to deliver working software products. You will be empowered to make informed recommendations to improve both the frontend and backend user experience of an important federal site.

You will be successful in this role if you like to flex your skills across content and user experience design, you like collaborating with and presenting work to colleagues and stakeholders, and you enjoy designing in an agile and iterative environment.

This position is fully remote (work from home) and requires a federal background investigation.

Responsibilities

• Inventory, analyze, and audit existing content, content types, and information architecture
• Analyze and conduct discovery for landing pages, global navigation, taxonomies, and more to create strategic recommendations for a redesign
• Restructure and remap site information architecture
• Analyze and implement improvements to site and content governance, such as roles and permissions, editorial workflows, content types, and templates, as needed
• Make improvements to the user experience of various software systems, in addition to the frontend user experience
• Create training documentation and train content management system users
• Collaborate with product management, engineering, other designers, and federal subject matter experts
• Plan and facilitate user research as needed
• Make complex information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
• Communicate effectively across organizational and technical boundaries, understanding the context
• Communicate content decisions and what business or user needs they are solving verbally or visually
• Advocate for human-centered design best practices in an agile and iterative environment

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience conducting content audits, information architecture analysis, etc., and providing and implementing strategic recommendations, identifying gaps, creating new mappings
• Experience conducting discovery to inform frontend redesigns
• Direct experience working with and/or designing for content management systems
• Enthusiasm for working closely with other designers/content strategists and for collaborating with other members of the product team
• Demonstrated success building strong client relationships
• Fluency in a broad range of human-centered design and content strategy methods
• You can communicate and present design decisions and the problems they address
• Confidence in leading research and discovery activities (interviews, observation, analysis, workshops, synthesis, etc.) as needed

Required Qualifications

• At least five (5) years of experience working as UX designer and/or content strategist in collaboration with digital product teams
• Bachelors degree OR 9 years of experience working as UX designer and/or content strategist in collaboration with digital product teams
• Experience with WCAG/Section 508 Accessibility standards
• A portfolio illustrating your process, design deliverables, and outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

• Working in or with federal government
• Experience working with large content repositories
• Content management system user documentation and training facilitation
• Familiar with or able to quickly learn a variety of software or tools
• Familiarity with Drupal

Salary Range 

$105,000 – $115,000