Senior Content Designer - Sustainability Software

r interface (UI), with a focus on clarity, accuracy, and the user experience. The design team you'll be joining is part of the worldwide design organization for Sustainability Software - a part of IBM that is collectively responsible for software products focused on AI-enabled solutions that assist our customers in making more informed and data-driven decisions about how to manage their business and services. This role is a senior position for someone who enjoys working with new toolsets and processes to deliver class-leading content.

Responsibilities

Collaborate on driving a cohesive end-to-end content experience that moves clients through every phase of their product journey and drives their actions.

• Design, develop, and publish IBM technical content (e.g. embedded in the UI, product tours, messages, product & API documentation, multimedia) that is easy to use, easy to understand, and easy to find.

• Simplify technically complex concepts and details from multiple sources into consumable content that drives user actions.

• Deliver clear, inclusive, accessible, and translated content for a global audience.

• Research and design content based on user scenarios and use cases by understanding personas, delivering content for design iterations, developing and clarifying UI terms, actively contributing to design reviews and conducting user testing/research to validate content.

• Collaborate directly with your Design team, Product Management, Development, Marketing, Support, Sales and Training to tell a cohesive product story. Use expertise and user empathy to influence product design decisions to deliver the best user experiences we can for our clients.

• Share work in progress, along with giving and receiving critiques.

• Own parts of the end-to-end authoring process: design, development, editing, production, translation, life cycle management.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 8 years as a senior technical writer or content designer.

• Writing, curating, and editing content for accuracy, clarity, and usability.

• Modeling and formatting content into viable, feasible, and desirable solutions.

• Proven experience simplifying complex content for users.

• Researching and learning the functionality being developed to help inform and guide both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Demonstrates ability to evaluate and design for the interactions between language and design elements to construct a logical, compelling narrative throughout user/client journey.

• Can define and apply consistent voice and tone throughout a content journey.

• Knowledge of markup languages (such as DITA XML, Markdown, HTML) and authoring tools (Oxygen).

• Experience documenting detailed technical content such as APIs and SDKs.

• Foundational understanding of UX design and design research.

• Proven communication skills (written and verbal).

• Portfolio or samples of previous work must be presented.

• An awesome and positive attitude.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience working in an agile, squad-based, continuous delivery development model.

• Able to work independently, with a strong sense of responsibility and commitment to a dynamic, team-based environment.
• An interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the capability to learn how to infuse AI into our content operations.
• Experience with digital adoption platforms such as WalkMe.
• Degree in Writing, English, Journalism, Communication, Information Design, or related field, or a technical degree.