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Hello, World! Codecademy has helped tens of millions of learners upgrade their careers, build meaningful projects and gain confidence in their skills with engaging, accessible, and flexible education on programming and data skills. We provide hands-on interactive lessons ranging from Python to R to JavaScript and everything in between. Our learners have gone on to start companies, new jobs, and new lives thanks to what they’ve learned with Codecademy, and we’re thrilled to take that impact to the next level.

Codecademy was started in 2011 by two college students in a dorm room at Columbia that were frustrated by the huge gap between education and employment. Almost a decade later, we are a growing, diverse team of 100+ headquartered in SoHo, NYC. We’ve raised over $40m in venture capital funding from top investors including Union Square Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Naspers, Y Combinator, and more.

If you want to help build a business that impacts tens of millions of people each year and helps them lead better lives, join us! 

As the first UX Writer to join the Codecademy team you will play a pivotal role in elevating our existing writing within the product and driving human-centered approaches to the interaction design of language. Through close collaboration with cross-functional teams you will develop communicative standards and processes crucial in the next wave of innovation in our suite of products. 

You will take the lead on the communication aspects of our most impactful efforts while also working with others to drive best practices and enable effective communication and writing throughout our learning journey.

The successful candidate will have a history of designing effective interactions through language, exceptional communication skills, and demonstrated success in collaborating with cross-functional teams as well as working as an independent specialist for our most important efforts. We are looking for someone who can balance rigor, velocity, and creative methods to shape the future of learning for millions of people, helping to create tangible economic return for our learners.

This role reports to the Head of Design. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Work with cross-functional teams of designers, product managers, engineers, marketers and data scientists
• Establish the cornerstone of UX Writing best practices at Codecademy
• Set reusable copy patterns to accompany our design system, Gamut, to be used modularly in the design of our product
• Embed yourself in the product development process across squads and improve our interaction design through your writing expertise 
• Develop a writing workflow alongside our established design process for effective management of our UX Writing needs
• Advocate for evidence-driven solutions for use of language in our product
• Test copy independently and as a contributor to experiments to bring more efficacy to our use of language

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• 3+ years experience throughout the product development process, advocating for the role of copywriting in the development of an effective design
• Ability to balance a brand tone of voice with the usability required for effective interaction design
• Demonstrated history of contributing to testing and measuring copy to ensure efficacy across user journeys
• A portfolio that demonstrates rigorous use of a style guide and contributions to the improvement of that guide
• A history of collaborating with designers to improve the user journey as well as providing best practices and patterns to enable designers to be self-sufficient
• Your approach to writing is inherently human-centered

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT:

• Experience with subscription and/or ed tech products
• Previous experience in Content Strategy of Information Architecture-related functions
• UX Writing with an eye toward localization
• Passion for learning to code and self-taught skills

At Codecademy, we are committed to teaching people the skills they need to upgrade their careers. Codecademy aims to educate a richly diverse demographic of users with our product and in order to accomplish this, we believe our team should reflect that rich diversity. Our company celebrates diversity in all of its forms-- race, gender, color, national origin, marital status, sexuality, religion, veteran status, age, ability, disability status-- and works to create an inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are empowered to better their futures.

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