Content Design Lead (all genders)
Babbel is the world’s first and most sold online language learning platform, driven by the purpose to create mutual understanding through language. This means building an ecosystem of language learning offerings that helps people connect across cultures. Babbel, Babbel Live and Babbel for Business provide users with the most effective solution to be able to communicate with real people, in real situations. Babbel’s team consists of 750 Babbelonians representing over 65 different nationalities working in Berlin and New York. For more information, visit www.babbel.comor download the apps in the App Store or Play Store.
We are looking for a Content Design Lead for our Product Design in the heart of buzzing Berlin!
As the Content Design Lead, you’ll manage a team of content designers and will contribute to strategic product design initiatives in Babbel’s product organization. You’ll guide a team of content designers to ensure Babbel’s user interface content helps Babbel learners succeed. Working across the entire product organization, you will uphold content design best practices and contribute to organization-wide strategic initiatives.
You will:
- Directly manage and upskill a team of four content designers
- Oversee the creation and management of Babbel’s user interface content to ensure it is consistent, concise, accessible, and inclusive
- Grow content design as a discipline within the organization and educate stakeholders on the value of content design in the product development process
- Work with product design leads on organization-wide topics such as information architecture, process improvement, design systems, and implementation of a new brand identity
- Further incorporate user insights and data into the work of the content design team
- Streamline the product localization process in collaboration with the product localization team, product managers, and engineers
- Oversee creation of additional content such as transactional emails or help center articles when needed
You have:
- At least five years of content design/UX writing experience
- Experience mentoring content designers (extra consideration will be given to candidates with people management experience) and helping other manage competing priorities in a complex, fast-paced environment
- A strong track record of working with members of leadership to influence priorities and strategic direction and ability to own and independently manage large, cross-team initiatives
- Demonstrated experience working with product designers, product managers, user researchers, and engineers
- Experience utilizing qualitative and quantitative insights to inform product content decisions
- Product localization experience is a plus
Some perks of becoming a Babbelonian:
- Enjoy 30 vacation days and the chance to take a 3-month Sabbatical. Plus family and life situation counseling.
- Decide how, when and from where you want to work with our flexible working hours and remote friendly options as Jobbatical (up to 3 months inside the EU) or work from our fully equipped office with nap, faith and family rooms.
- Learn and grow with the internal learning opportunities, and use a yearly learning & development budget for external training. Learn languages with Babbel for free with your full access to Babbel & Babbel Live classes.
- Take advantage of your mobility benefits options and a discounted Urban Sports Club membership.
- Be part of our employee communities (such as Femgineers, DE&I Ambassadors and LGBTQIA groups), attend cultural and regular social events.
Diversity at Babbel
As part of our ongoing journey towards building a diverse, equitable and inclusive company, we welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in tech. We are a learning company, inside and out, and we encourage you to apply even if you do not fit all the technical requirements - all candidates are assessed based on skills, qualifications and on our business needs. Please state your pronouns in your application, and let us know if you’d like to be addressed by a name other than the one appearing on your official documents. If you have a disability or special need, feel welcome to inform us, so that we can provide you with the proper assistance in the application process.
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