Senior Content Designer

Brightspeed; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401K with match

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Brightspeed in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Senior Content Designer to lead content strategy across our eCommerce experiences, from discovery to post-order moments. You will shape how customers understand options, drive clarity, and influence product direction with a systems-thinking approach.

You will mentor teammates, collaborate with design, product, analytics and legal, and define content governance within Brightspeed's design system. Experience with AI-enabled content workflows is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• 7+ years of content design/UX writing experience across digital funnels.
• Experience applying AI in content strategy or operations.
• Ability to shape content strategy across multiple digital funnels.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating journey thinking and measurable improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own content strategy across eCommerce funnels from discovery to post-order.
• Write and refine high-value interface content and guidance.
• Lead content governance, patterns, and handoffs with design systems.
• Mentor designers and cross-functional partners in content design.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, legal, and engineering to align strategy.

Skills

UX writing

Content design

Product content strategy

Digital content design

Systems thinking

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in English/Communications/UX or related field

Tools

Figma

Job description

At Brightspeed, we are reimagining how people live, work, play and connect by providing fast, reliable internet connections and an awesome customer experience in twenty states throughout the Midwest and South. Backed by funds managed by Apollo Global Management, our vision is to accelerate the upgrade of copper to fiber optic technologies, bringing faster and more reliable internet service to many rural markets traditionally underserved by broadband providers, while delivering best-in-class customer experience. Be a part of the team that will make this vision a reality….designing and building a world class fiber network and creating a customer experience second to none. Check us out on the web!

Job Description

The Senior Content Designer, Product Design, eCommerce is a senior individual contributor responsible for the content strategy, experience language, information architecture, and content quality across Brightspeed’s eCommerce ecosystem. This role looks across multiple funnels and customer journeys to define the overall content approach, connect related experiences, identify patterns, and ensure customers receive clear, consistent, and helpful guidance from discovery through purchase, account creation, installation, and post-order moments. This role is strategy-led. The Senior Content Designer is expected to understand the full digital ecosystem, define content frameworks across funnels, influence product and design direction, and guide how content supports business goals, customer comprehension, conversion, accessibility, and long-term experience quality. This role uses AI-assisted tools to improve content strategy, content operations, and conversational customer experiences while maintaining accuracy, clarity, accessibility, and customer trust. The Senior Content Designer also acts as a mentor and coach for other content and product design partners. This person helps raise the quality of the team’s content work through critique, standards, documentation, reusable patterns, and practical guidance. They are accountable for connecting the details of interface copy to the broader customer journey and ensuring content decisions scale across the eCommerce experience.

IMPACT

Content Strategy Across Funnels

• Own content strategy across multiple eCommerce funnels, including acquisition, service qualification, plan comparison, cart, checkout, account creation, installation scheduling, order confirmation, post-order education, and related self-service journeys.
• Identify how content decisions in one part of the journey affect customer comprehension, conversion, support needs, and downstream experience quality in other funnels.
• Apply AI-assisted methods to content analysis, exploration, prototyping, or conversational experiences, and help establish clear, responsible content practices for AI-enabled interactions.
• Create content frameworks, journey-level messaging strategies, decision trees, naming systems, and information architecture recommendations that help customers understand options and complete tasks with confidence.
• Partner with product design, product management, analytics, research, marketing, legal, and engineering to shape experience strategy before detailed execution begins.
• Use customer insights, funnel data, usability findings, experimentation results, and stakeholder input to identify content gaps and prioritize improvements.
• Balance business requirements, legal constraints, brand voice, product complexity, and customer needs when defining content direction.

Experience Architecture & UX Writing Leadership

• Lead content design for complex, ambiguous, or high-impact eCommerce initiatives that require systems thinking across pages, flows, platforms, and customer states.
• Define the role of content in the experience, including page hierarchy, customer guidance, progressive disclosure, comparison logic, error recovery, and decision support.
• Write and refine high-value interface content including headlines, CTAs, labels, helper text, product education, comparison language, error messages, confirmation content, and transactional guidance.
• Translate complex product, pricing, eligibility, installation, promotional, legal, or technical information into clear and customer-friendly experiences.
• Ensure content decisions support accessibility, plain language, inclusive language, responsive design, and measurable customer outcomes.
• Create content annotations, rationale, content models, and handoff documentation for engineering, QA, product, legal, and business partners.

Mentoring, Coaching & Team Elevation

• Coach and mentor content designers, product designers, and cross-functional partners on content design best practices, UX writing, journey thinking, and customer-centered communication.
• Lead content critiques, content reviews, and working sessions that improve the quality, consistency, and strategic value of the team’s work.
• Help less experienced content designers move from task execution to stronger journey awareness, rationale, and systems thinking.
• Create reusable guidance, templates, standards, and examples that make strong content decisions easier for the broader team.
• Model strong stakeholder communication by explaining content strategy, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both working teams and leadership.

Content Systems, Governance & Measurement

• Contribute to content standards, voice and tone guidance, reusable UX writing patterns, and content components within Brightspeed’s design system.
• Define and maintain patterns for forms, errors, alerts, CTAs, plan cards, comparison tables, checkout steps, eligibility states, confirmation messages, and post-order guidance.
• Identify outdated, inconsistent, duplicated, or conflicting messaging across funnels and recommend governance improvements.
• Partner with analytics and experimentation teams to evaluate content performance and identify opportunities to improve clarity, conversion, and task completion.
• Support content inventories, audits, journey maps, and documentation that give the team a clear view of the broader content ecosystem.

May perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

YOU WILL THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in English, Communications, UX, HCI, Design, Journalism, Content Strategy, or a related field, or bring equivalent practical experience.
• Bring 7 or more years of experience in content design, UX writing, product content strategy, or digital content design.
• Have practical experience using AI within a professional content-design or content-strategy workflow and can speak confidently about at least one relevant example.
• Have experience shaping content strategy across multiple digital funnels, customer journeys, or product areas.
• Have a portfolio that demonstrates strategic content design, journey-level thinking, systems thinking, UX writing craft, and measurable experience improvements.
• Can simplify complex product, pricing, legal, technical, or operational information into clear customer-facing experiences.
• Can mentor other designers, lead critiques, and raise the quality of content work across a team.
• Understand product design workflows and can collaborate fluently with UX/UI designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, analysts, marketing, and legal partners.
• Are comfortable working in Figma and reviewing content directly within design files.
• Understand accessibility, plain language, inclusive language, responsive design, content governance, and design systems.
• Can lead content decisions in ambiguous situations and communicate strategic rationale with confidence.

A PLUS IF YOU HAVE

• Experience in telecommunications, broadband, utilities, subscription services, regulated digital experiences, or complex eCommerce ecosystems.
• Experience with checkout, cart, plan comparison, promotions, service qualification, account creation, onboarding, or self-service funnels.
• Experience contributing to design systems, content systems, UX writing guidelines, or content governance models.
• Experience with experimentation, content testing, usability testing, conversion optimization, analytics, or journey measurement.
• Knowledge with SEO, personalization, localization, or Spanish-language content workflows.

Language Skills

English required. Bilingual Spanish a plus.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Work is primarily sedentary, performed indoors from a home or company office while operating a computer and standard office productivity tools. Occasional additional hours may be required to meet project deadlines.

Additional Information

WHY JOIN US?

We aspire to contemporary ways of working. Recognized as a Top Workplace by the Charlotte Observer, Brightspeed HQ is located on the 7th floor of the new Vantage South End - East Tower in Charlotte, NC. We prioritize hiring talent in the Charlotte area, whenever possible, to make it a truly vibrant destination for our hybrid workforce. At Brightspeed, we have roles that are designated as remote, hybrid, office or field-based, depending on the position, business needs and individual circumstances. We also invest in technology that enables our entire team to stay connected. Why? Because Brightspeed recognizes the value of finding the best talent for the job, wherever they may be.

We Offer Competitive Compensation And Comprehensive Benefits.

Our benefits and paid time off programs reflect our underlying belief in promoting overall wellness through physical, emotional and financial health. Brightspeed offers a comprehensive benefit program, including competitive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; an employee assistance program; a 401K plan with company match and a host of voluntary benefits.

Inclusion and belonging are at the center of our grounding belief in Being Real. When we bring our authentic selves to work, everyone is better as a result. A diverse team helps us be fierce advocates for more accessible, inclusive and high-quality internet, because we believe doing so promotes equity in the communities we serve.

Brightspeed is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion of all qualified individuals, including individuals with a disability/veterans. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact [e-mail] to initiate the accommodations process.

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