Lead Content Designer

at  Epidemic Sound

AT EPIDEMIC SOUND, WE MAKE SOUNDTRACKING CONTENT SIMPLE AND INSPIRING WITH UNLIMITED ACCESS TO MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS. HEADQUARTERED IN STOCKHOLM, WITH OFFICES ALL OVER THE WORLD, WE ARE A FORCE OF OVER 500 ON A MISSION TO SOUNDTRACK THE WORLD. OUR INNOVATIVE LICENSING MODEL PAVES THE WAY FOR CREATORS - FROM YOUTUBERS TO SMALL BUSINESSES TO THE WORLD’S MOST RECOGNIZABLE BRANDS SUCH AS NETFLIX, REDBULL AND BBC - TO USE SOUND TO ENHANCE THEIR CONTENT WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY SUPPORTING ARTISTS BOTH FINANCIALLY AND CREATIVELY. EPIDEMIC SOUND MUSIC IS HEARD 2 BILLION TIMES A DAY ON YOUTUBE ALONE AND IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF EUROPE’S FASTEST-GROWING COMPANIES BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES. EPIDEMIC SOUND IS BACKED BY EQT, BLACKSTONE, CREANDUM, ATWATER CAPITAL TO NAME A FEW.

We are looking for a Lead Content Designer to create exciting and long-lasting emotional impact for our users in all in-product experiences.
As a lead content designer you will be working in partnership with design, marketing and technology and be responsible for hands on driving and executing the content that supports our digital products. This role is located at our HQ in Stockholm.

JOB SUMMARY:

Working with another senior content designer, you will be responsible for the content created for all in-product experiences. Day to day you will oversee the creation of processes, and ensure quality and governance of content, as well as being involved in working with product teams to create required content.
You will be expected to lead, mentor and help your teammates, as well as ensuring the content design craft is represented outwardly - by working alongside key stakeholders to grow the profile of content and encourage cross-team collaboration.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Great communicator and storyteller, experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with various stakeholders
• Trusted mentor to more junior team members, as well as confident educator to stakeholders
• Proven track record of delivering and measuring impact of content within a product organization
• Experience in creating tone of voice guidance and content strategy
• Excellent collaboration with UX design teams and inspiring content workshops skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS/ BONUS SKILLS:

• Experience working in a complex, fast-moving product organization
• Having worked with or towards B2B/Enterprise
• Experience with a global customer base across multiple languages
• Experience of process mapping and defining new process

• Determine overall strategy for in-product content throughout all touchpoints and product experiences
• Ensure alignment of strategy with Brand & Marketing stakeholders and counterparts
• Oversee the creation of process and ensure quality and governance of content
• Participate in the production of content, e. g research, concepting, UI copy, microcopy, onboarding, tutorials, user flows, error handling, CTAs, style guides, accessibility, localization, in line with the domain’s or product team’s strategy and roadmap
• Identify strategic solutions ahead of the current known roadmap by collaborating with product designers on product visioning through prototyping and storytelling
• Work across teams, coordinate requests from multiple teams and align work between teams as well as proactively find opportunities within multiple teams
• Establish systems and processes that will support the democratization of writing, and ensures a consistent tone of voice across the whole epidemic platform