UX Writer Ad Platforms at The Planet Group

UX Writer
Location: Culver City, CA
Onsite: Tues/Wed/Thurs
Pay: $86.95 per hour DOE
Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, 401K

Planet Interactive is seeking an UX Writer to work with our prominent technology client on a 12-month contract. The Ad Platforms design team is responsible for the user experience of its tools by designing intuitive, learnable, and consistent interfaces. We work to specify how user input and interaction mechanisms work and push to innovate those concepts across our products.

We’re looking for an experienced UX Writer who is passionate about user experience design and wants to help shape the development of advertising interfaces. You’ll be writing for new provider- and consumer-facing tools, as well as maintaining existing user interface copy. You’ll primarily work alongside designers, collaborating on deliverables and process to create amazing user experiences. You’ll also team with engineers, marketers, and others to ensure a successful product for both our customers and our business.

You may be a fit for this role if you...

• Have 5+ years experience and familiarity writing for advertising and/or monetization platforms.
• Have an unrelenting passion for user-focused product experiences.
• Are curious about every piece of a user journey, from error states to success criteria.
• Oscillate between left- and right-brained writing, from storytelling to systematic thinking.
• Know how to work with and create wireframes and functional specs.
• Are interested in proposing what’s right only after exploring why everything else might be wrong.
• Develop well-informed points of view, while also remaining open to adjustments based on input from others.
• Can write from scratch, edit existing copy, and think beyond the written word with input from multiple team members.
• Think long-term, but act quickly.
• Are comfortable managing and prioritizing several projects simultaneously.
• Deliver passionate and impactful presentations at all levels of an organization.
• Dream about positively affecting the lives of millions of people, and like waking up to the responsibilities that come with that.
• Have an inexhaustible attention to detail.
• Enjoy contributing to and implementing style guides and shared patterns.
• Know and are excited about evolving the ecosystem of hardware, software, and services.

UX Writer Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Design team to solve UI challenges in response to product requirements.
• Collaborate with Product teams, responding to their feedback, contributing ideas and collaborating to improve the performance of our content.
• Own and maintain the copy deck and process for reviews and handoff.
• Contribute to a design system, providing logic and rules for a variety of use cases.
• Attend design reviews and product meetings to represent and defend the words and tone we look to implement.
• Participate in QA as it pertains to copy and file bugs as necessary.
• Understand customer goals, business requirements, technical constraints, and be able to work within project parameters.

Education

• A Bachelor’s degree in a related field is preferred.