Senior UX Writer - Payroll (m/f/d)

About us

Enabling Better Organizations.

Personio is a fast growing HR SaaS start-up based in Munich. It offers a holistic HR and applicant management software designed for companies with 10 to 1000 employees. Personio plays a critical role in making the day-to-day operations of more than 700 HR teams more efficient and transparent. We are a bunch of fun, international people striving to build the leading one-stop HR platform in Europe.

The Role

The Personio UX community brings together over 30 Product Designers, UX Writers, Service Designers and UX Researchers, each with their own unique mix of skills. We combine empathy, data, and creativity to make engaging and joyful user experiences to ultimately humanise HR into a people-oriented experience. 

Working in tandem with other design disciplines and connecting the dots between the product experience and Personio’s broader communications landscape, our UX writers/content designers use words, personality and information architecture to design experiences that simplify, humanise and delight our users. 

Sitting at the intersection of UX and UI, content strategy, integrated messaging and localisation, you will lead the charge on a variety of missions within a diverse range of business areas. Mix in behavioural economics, A/B/C tests, as well as engaging and inclusive storytelling, and you’ll find a community that’s pivotal to our UX advancements.

We’re looking for Senior UX Writers to write/design/collaborate on shaping key moments and intersections across multiple customer journeys, elevating our voice and tone across products and services within the Payroll Domain, and developing engaging, inspiring novel experiences. You will support your peers to rethink the way we and our partners create engaging content to shape the future of Payroll.

Your role and responsibilities will include:
  • Define and deliver copy strategy that influences, expands, and translates the product into marketable narratives, compelling information architectures, and coherent messaging through detailed documentation to Product Managers and Engineers. Break down the complexity of product into a seamless and enjoyable experiences. 

  • Work with UX Researchers to make sure we’re focusing on the right problems and opportunities.

  • Collaborate closely with other UX Writers, Product Designers, Service Designers and UX Researchers to iteratively design and improve our product. 

  • You will shape end-to-end experiences and solve meaningful customer problems — from ideating through prototyping and user testing to bringing features live.

  • Focus building out the writing craft and standards in English as a foundational language for localization. Design human-centered solutions using language that scales across markets and locales. Set the standards for how experiences should look, read and feel.

  • Discover and identify opportunities to make our Personio products more powerful and usable

  • Act as a customer advocate throughout the design process

What you need to succeed

  • Able to demonstrate as well as explain creative content and relevant design work that you have planned, led, and realised.
  • Experience establishing voice and tone guidelines, selecting and writing for design components, and defining content patterns for digital experiences
  • Excellent writing and editing skills, with 3+ years of professional writing experience
  • Strong knowledge of content strategy, such as information architecture, including defining terminology and creating and maintaining word lists
  • Demonstrable knowledge of writing for and working with localization to ensure consistent product communication across markets and languages
  • Experience in explaining design/copy rationales, building common understanding, delivering on opportunities to use content to shape user experiences
  • Ability to facilitate and communicate clearly, set stakeholder expectations and share knowledge as well as insights.
  • Expertise in a range of UX writing skills built from either brand, marketing, product marketing, or editorial experience and a track record in human-centered storytelling.

Why Personio

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, there are a variety of additional benefits that help make Personio a great place to work! Work with us and receive:
  • Competitive compensation package that includes salary, benefits, and virtual shares
  • 26 days of paid vacation + 2 days off for Christmas and New Year's Eve (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
  • Inclusive, equal opportunity, and multicultural workplace
  • Annual personal development budget of €1,500 for conferences, courses, books, career coach, etc.
  • With PersonioFlex, decide for yourself where you work most effectively with a flexible 50% in-office and 50% remote working framework. “Remote” can mean at home or anywhere within the UK or European Economic Area
  • High-impact work environment with short decision-making processes
  • Saving for tomorrow: Opportunity to invest in your retirement via the Personio Pension Scheme or to invest into a disability insurance
  • Choose between three mobility options: JobRad® bike or monthly public transportation ticket
  • Subsidised Qualitrain membership gives you access to 90 fitness studios and sports facilities across Munich for €22.58 per month
  • Regular company and team events like Oktoberfest, ski trips, Christmas parties, and more! (COVID permitting)
  • Mental health support, as we know that mental wellbeing plays a major role in both our personal and professional success. #PersonioCares
  • Two Impact days you can use to have an impact on the environment and society. One day is for an individual project and one for a company-wide initiative! #SocialResponsibility