Order Ref: 37091488

Position Title: UX Copywriter - In-Vehicle Digital Interfaces

Duration: Contract

Location: Gaydon

Role Overview:

• As a UX Copywriter for In-Vehicle Digital Interfaces, you will shape the voice, clarity, and effectiveness of all textual touchpoints within our digital cockpit experiences.
• Working at the intersection of design, engineering, and brand, you will define how our vehicles communicate, ensuring every message is intuitive, concise, on-brand, and compliant with safety and regulatory standards.
• You will be responsible for reviewing, refining, and approving all in-vehicle text including infotainment, clusters, notifications, warning messages, settings, and connected services.
• You will also lead the development of messaging strategies, patterns, tone of voice guidelines, and frameworks that support consistent communication across platforms and vehicle lines.

Key Responsibilities:

UX Writing & Content Design

• Review and refine all text displayed on in-vehicle digital interfaces.
• Produce clear, concise, and user-centred copy including labels, CTAs, menus, error messages, system prompts, warning messages, and instructional content.
• Ensure all content aligns with the Clients' brand voice and supports a premium customer experience.
• Ensure text is translatable, culturally appropriate, and scalable across global markets.

Warning Messaging Strategy

• Define warning messaging principles, guidance, and language standards.
• Lead a recurring cross‑functional forum to ideate, review, and approve warning messages.
• Establish, maintain, and release scalable message libraries and copy patterns to drive consistency across nameplates and platforms.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with interaction designers, product owners, HMI engineers, and researchers to ensure content enhances overall user experience.
• Contribute to design reviews, user testing, and iterative refinement of digital cockpit features.
• Research & Continuous Improvement
• Use insights from user research, usability testing, telematics data, and competitive analysis to optimise content.
• Champion UX writing and content design best practices across the organisation.

Skills & Experience:

Essential:

• Expert command of the English language, with impeccable grammar and clarity.
• Proven experience in UX writing, content design, or product writing for digital interfaces (preferably embedded or hardware-related).
• Exceptional writing and editing skills with a focus on clarity, brevity, and user experience.
• Experience working within design teams using tools such as Figma, Jira, Confluence, or similar.
• Understanding of UX/UI principles, design systems, and content patterns.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and navigate cross-functional decision making.

Desirable:

• Experience in automotive, consumer electronics, or other embedded systems.
• Familiarity with internationalisation (i18n) and localisation (l10n) best practices.
• Knowledge of HMI standards, accessibility principles, and multimodal interface design.
• Ability to contribute to user research and testing activities.

Attributes:

• Detail-oriented and committed to quality.
• Strong communicator with the ability to advocate for content design.
• Empathetic, user-focused mindset.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

Location:

• Gaydon - Hybrid - 2 days per week office-based

Why work through Contech's?

Contechs are a leading Automotive, Design, Engineering, Technology & Innovation Recruitment Consultancy. Founded in 1997, with an inhouse Contractor Care Team to support all external employee's, acts as an employment agency for permanent and contract recruitment.

How to Apply

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