UX Copywriter

Our mission is to contribute to a functioning democracy by closing the gap between what citizens know and what they need to know about the world around them. We aim to offer trustworthy news founded on facts and insight in a world where information is becoming increasingly more abundant and untrustworthy.

To achieve this we’re aiming at delivering simply the best news destinations there are to our users with a sustainable business model for digital publishers. We are now looking for a UX writer to our Consumer Business team that has the important mission to empower our publishers to establish sustainable business models for user revenue.

What will I do?

As a UX Copywriter your will shape products by creating useful, meaningful and user centric text that will raise the user experience and helps users accomplish their goals. You're also a content strategist, setting the vision and guidelines for content and drive consistent language across platforms and touch points.

You will work with UX designers, researchers, product managers, developers and marketing teams in an agile environment. In your day to day work you will also support research and experiments to increase engagement and conversion rates for user flows and tasks. We consider copy an integral part of the product development process. As a Copywriter you will take part in every step, from product strategy to launch.

Working as part of a larger UX team you will be responsible for creating the language and voice that delight the user experience and create intuitive and useful products.

We constantly measure the quality of our work, and thus offer you the opportunity to hone your craft. User research and engagement measurements will validate your work, and you will share the success and failures of the team with pride. You will be the owner of Copy and a subject matter expert on written content, brand, and voice/tone standards. Your mandate is to establish a connective language and a unified voice across Consumer Business Solutions

You are a team player with a positive attitude, curious, and enjoys challenges - and a person who sees the value of diversity. You are autonomous and take full ownership your work.

You will also:

- Own Copywriting, and create all copy and guidelines for all our products, including Privacy, Payment, Profile and Login.
- Provide leadership on Copywriting matters.
- Advocate the brand and content strategy across departments to ensure a consistent implementation. Partner with other writers within the organization to leverage and share ideas and provide guidelines that apply broadly across these departments.
- Ensure that online content delivers on corporate brand standards, web style guide, legal and compliance.
- Continuously test and review analytics in different markets to understand user behavior to manage and shape content and messaging strategies.
- Evaluate the semantics of new and existing products, and make constructive suggestions for change.
- Work with translation agencies to provide localization for multiple languages.

- You have a passion for user centered language and text and creating great user experiences
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience on user-focused writing, including digital products
- Experience shaping content for products, with a portfolio of UX-focused writing samples and style guidelines
- Portfolio of UX-focused writing samples and style guidelines.
- Familiarity with usability and user experience principle, and how to use data to provide informed user insights
- A proven track record collaborating on projects to translate complex concepts into easy-to-understand interactive experiences.
- Fluent language in (Swedish / Norwegian).

Experience:

- Experienced working closely with engineering, product management, strategy, interaction design and user research teams
- Experience planning for and developing useful, usable content including instructional text, error and confirmation messages, taxonomy and nomenclature
- You are an open-minded team player, passionate and the way you work energizes others

About you:

You are an open-minded team player, passionate and the way you work energizes others. You are committed to the timely delivery of a job well done. We can offer you a workplace with a great potential for personal development. For the right candidate there will be opportunities to take on product management tasks together with an experienced product manager. A general interest in the news publishing industry is a plus.

Schibsted Media combines a long and proud publishing tradition stretching back to the 19th century, with digital innovation and entrepreneurship. Schibsted Media is an independent division that comprises all of Schibsted’s media businesses, including brands such as VG, Aftonbladet, Aftenposten, Svenska Dagbladet, Bergens Tidende, Stavanger Aftenblad, Fædrelandsvennen, and seven local newspapers.

The division also includes Schibsted Growth, which is home to start-ups and growing businesses such as Lendo, Prisjakt, Let’s Deal, Bynk, Fronteer Solutions, and Kickback. Growth is always searching for smart founders with ambitious ideas, scalable business models – and a mission to empower people in their daily lives.

Schibsted Media was established in the autumn of 2017, and the division contains 4000 employees who are based across Norway, Sweden, and Poland.