Description
About the role and why it’s unique:
- Design, write, edit and test clear, compelling in-product language to help users and teams meet their goals. This includes product flows, interface language, education materials, product names, navigational nomenclature, terminology, taxonomies and other content across Underdog products and experiences.
- Apply systems thinking to the product, whether it’s defining extensible design system guidance, conducting audits of existing experiences or creating information architecture.
- Give and solicit feedback from your Product Design & System peers in service of building the best products.
- Create high-fidelity design mocks using existing components in Figma, and use them to present design solutions.
- Collaborate daily with peers in every discipline, including engineering, design, systems, marketing and data, to take products from conception to launch.
- Demonstrate sound judgment and influence product decisions, team direction and strategy. This includes identifying potential risk for users or the company, and aligning stakeholders around significant decisions by illustrating product tradeoffs.
- Independently and proactively identify and work on projects that span multiple teams. This may involve facilitating or co-facilitating design sprints and workshops to kick off these projects.
- Build internal community, provide mentorship and develop skills of other content designers.
Who you are:
- 5-7 years’ experience in UX writing.
- Examples of finished wireframes, or design mocks authored using design tools, that have been used to drive decision-making within a team.
- Experience with simplifying and persuasively communicating complex ideas to broad audiences.
- Familiarity with tools for managing and updating content at scale.
- Examples of work in design systems and systems thinking.
- Demonstrated experience leading projects with minimal direction and handling a large degree of ambiguity.
Even better if you have:
- Experience in visual design and/or art direction
- Experience in fantasy sports and/or sports betting
Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $190,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.
What we can offer you:
- Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- A $500 home office allowance
- A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
- 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents
