Senior Manager, UX Writing & Content Strategy

May 9

The Trade Desk

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1001 - 5000

Description

• Lead a growing team of UX Writers and Content Strategists who produce content for a full spectrum of customer and partner audiences • Internalize the business vision as a fundamental part of your perspective and use it to develop and carry out the overall vision for external-facing product content at The Trade Desk • Articulate product content strategy across the company and execute the plans to make that vision a reality. Advocate for the writing team • As a people manager and team builder, recognize, retain, and grow talent. Design team structure and skillsets for a growing organization • Evolve the team’s processes, tools, and operations to address business needs • Ensure our content meets the needs of our users and partners, optimizing content and structure for each audience (using feedback to inform our strategy and content development) • Review and provide constructive feedback on content, designs, workflows, and other key artifacts • Facilitate partnerships across The Trade Desk to enhance our written content with high-quality multimedia work, when needed • Ensure that content work is effectively focused, prioritized, and delivered when it’s needed to support business goals • Refine and scale processes for global growth, including localization

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in content design or UX writing, technical writing, and content strategy • 5+ years of experience as a people leader of both ICs and managers for UX writing teams • A cross-functional collaborator, strong communicator, and listener • A strong advocate, voicing the needs of users as well as your team • Eager to thrive in a fast-paced and quickly-evolving environment • Steeped in content design and technical writing best practices • Committed to exceptional output, setting standards of excellence • Bachelor's degree in English, Technical Writing, Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or a related technical field such as Computer Science or Design • Familiar with Figma, CMS systems and single-sourcing, content authoring tools and concepts, XML and HTML basics • Added bonus: Ad tech experience and familiarity with programmatic advertising

Benefits

• comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents • retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match • short and long-term disability coverage • basic life insurance • well-being benefits • reimbursement for certain tuition expenses • parental leave • sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked • vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter • around 13 paid holidays per year • Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan