Head of UX Writing (f/m/x)

Full Time
Berlin, Germany
7 months ago
The role

At HelloFresh, the UX Writing team shapes consumer and enterprise interfaces across various brands. As their leader, you'll collaborate closely with UX Design, Product Management, and Engineering to refine processes and direct UX Writers towards impactful work. Your role involves leading strategic content initiatives and crafting superior microcopy. Moreover, you're tasked with advancing the team's and function's maturity by establishing frameworks that enhance communication quality and foster individual growth in their craft.In this dual role, you'll lead a skilled team of UX Writers, as well as strategic content design projects, and sometimes directly contribute to writing tasks to support ongoing initiatives.

Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What you’ll do
  • Enhance and uphold the HelloFresh UX Writing Tone Of Voice, guidelines, and standards to ensure consistent, delightful and trustworthy communication.
  • Manage stakeholder understanding and expectation of the role and impact of UX Writing to create alignment and clarity on UX writing needs and ways of working.
  • Lead your team in tackling complex and ambiguous content problems with UX methods to break them down and create testable hypotheses.
  • Help your team to create and refine exceptional UX copy for our web and app interfaces, and collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to guarantee a high-quality implementation.
  • Collaborate with and guide your team on working with UX research to validate copy hypotheses and generate a strong understanding of our customer’s communication needs.
  • Participate in design and product reviews, offering feedback to improve team decision-making and work quality.
  • Define different service levels of copy creation to support the various needs of the product organization and balance speed with quality.
  • Collaborate with localization to ensure a high quality translation from the baseline language (US EN) into all different languages.
What you’ll bring
  • 5+ years of experience in creating compelling, user-centric content and strategies for digital consumer products, demonstrated by a strong portfolio. 
  • Superior writing and communication skills, excellent knowledge of the English language, grammar, punctuation, spelling. 
  • Experience creating content according to brand standards, and defining style and tone of voice guidelines for user interfaces.
  • Experience in leading and expanding a UX Writing team to new heights.
  • Experience working in an agile environment, fostering collaboration and communication among design, research, product, and engineering teams.
  • Ability to integrate UX writing efforts with broader business goals.
  • Proficiency in Figma and comparable digital design tools, enhancing creative workflows.
What we offer
  • Comprehensive relocation assistance to move to Berlin plus visa application support
  • Healthy discount on weekly HelloFresh boxes
  • Annual learning and development budget to attend conferences or purchase educational resources plus access to the HelloFresh Academy
  • Subsidized child care with a professional nannying agency
  • Free access to Headspace, weekly in-house yoga classes 
  • A diverse and vibrant international environment of 90+ different nationalities
  • Additional perks include: Free crash course in German, compensation for advanced external German classes, discounts for our neighboring gym & Urban Sports Club as well as access to a new onsite gym, company events and parties, discount on our Convini vending machines
  • The chance to have a significant impact on one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe in an exciting growth phase
Are you up for the challenge?

Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.

After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days.

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