About Donorbox
Donorbox is a leading fundraising platform and donor management system for nonprofit organizations. Our mission is to accelerate positive impact worldwide by helping nonprofits become highly effective at raising funds and managing their supporter base. Since 2014, we have powered more than 80,000 global organizations to raise over $2B in donations. 🚀
Our fast-growing company is profitable and bootstrapped with a healthy run rate. We have a fully distributed and diverse 110-person team based in 10+ states and 20+ countries.
🏅In 2023, Donorbox achieved the Leader status in Nonprofit and was recognized for Best Functionality & Features in Fundraising by GetApp. We're proud of what we do, and our product reflects it!
The Role
Are you passionate about creating amazing app UX writing? We're looking for a dynamic, self-motivated UX writer to join our Product UX/UI design team.
You'll help us build effective, customer-focused solutions by crafting, editing, and refining various product-related UX writings.
This includes ensuring the UX copy is consistent and adheres to contemporary UI standards.
We'd love to connect with you if you're skilled in gathering information through research, hands-on product use, and customer interviews for selected projects.
Your goal will be to provide a consistent, easy-to-understand, and human tone of voice that enhances the user experience.
You will have the opportunity to contribute to the nonprofit sector and help thousands of organizations and people in need across the US and the world.
Responsibilities
- Content Creation: Develop and maintain clear, concise, and compelling UX copy for interactive interfaces, including buttons, tooltips, error messages, and many other UI elements.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, strategists, marketing teams, engineers, and researchers to ensure all content meets both business objectives and users' needs.
- Research: Participate in user research and usability testing to understand user behaviors and needs, integrating insights into content strategies for the product team.
- Content Strategy: Define a content strategy that aligns with the organization's goals, focusing on optimizing user engagement and facilitating ease of use.
- Style Guides: Create and maintain a UX writing style guide in line with the organization’s brand voice, ensuring consistency across all platforms and touchpoints.
- Editing and Proofreading: Ensure all UX content is free of errors, is user-friendly, and aligns with UX copy best practices where applicable.
- Feedback Integration: Regularly update and refine content based on analytics and user feedback to improve functionality and user satisfaction.
Qualifications & Experience
- Experience: 3+ years as a UX writer, content strategist, or similar role in a tech or nonprofit environment, accompanied by a portfolio showcasing a range of UX writing. Experience with SaaS platforms is highly advantageous.
- Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in English, UX Design, Journalism, Communications, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
- User-Centered UX Writing: Strong understanding of UX principles, user-centered design processes, interactions, and accessibility standards.
- Strong Writing Skills: A keen eye for grammar and a deep respect for content style, voice, and tone. Passion for solving complicated problems and making things simple.
- Teamwork: Experience working with designers, engineers, and product managers.
- Analytical Skills: Ability to use data from usability tests and user feedback to guide content decisions and improve user experiences.
- Curiosity: Eager to learn the product area inside and out and demonstrate how content recommendations fit with the product.
- Remote Environment: Comfortable working in a fast-paced, remote environment.
- Communication Skills: Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills with an ability to create persuasive and clear content suited for diverse audiences.
- Positive Attitude: Friendly and open attitude, including the ability to share and receive feedback.
- Mission Alignment: A passion for the nonprofit sector and a deep understanding of how Donorbox user experience can advance an organization's mission.
- Tools: Basic UX copy editing experience with UX UI design tools such as Figma
Details
- Fully remote based in US or Canada (ideal candidates based in EST)
- Salary: $75,000-$90,000 USD, depending on experience and location
- Three-month testing period
Benefits & Perks
- Fully remote work from the comfort of your home
- Generous time off policy of 21 days (birthday included 🎉), 2 paid volunteer days, 8+ designated/floating holidays (dependent on province/country), and additional sick days (dependent on state/country)
- Employer-sponsored health insurance plan through TriNet, including medical, dental, vision, and life
- 401(k) retirement plan via TriNet's partner, Empower, with an employer match of up to 4% (for US employees) and Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP) (for Canadian employees)
- Reimbursement package for home office expenses, up to $1.5k
- Eligibility for employee equity plan (stock options)
- Wellness program with fitness and mindfulness classes
- Love your work and our mission of serving nonprofits!
The Application Process
We have 5 stages:
- Apply here with your resume and a portfolio of three selected digital SaaS application designs with your roles and the work performed noted
- Prescreen Call with the Talent Acquisition Associate
- Interview with the Hiring Manager to review your UX writing portfolio and experience
- Interview Panel to assess your product knowledge, teamwork skills and communication
- Live whiteboard session where you will present your UX writing skills and process on three simple tasks
If this sounds like the right role for you, please apply today and let us know why. We look forward to hearing from you!
