Content Editor (Contract)
Please note that this is a contract role providing services to Microsoft through external staffing partners of Allegis Global Solutions. If you are selected for this role, you will be employed by AGS and will not be an employee of Microsoft.
Summary
This position offers an exciting opportunity to shape the digital experiences that support thousands of employees through thoughtfully crafted content and user-centered design. Working within a dynamic studio environment, you will play a vital role in creating intuitive, accessible, and empathetic communications that guide users through complex workflows and product interactions. Your work will directly influence how people navigate critical tools and systems, ensuring every word serves a clear purpose and enhances the overall user experience. This role requires a strategic thinker who can balance user needs with business objectives while maintaining consistency and clarity across diverse product touchpoints. You will operate with significant autonomy, bringing your expertise to bear on challenging problems that require both creative and analytical thinking.
Job Responsibilities
- Contribute to end-to-end content design for features and workflows, including in-product guidance, error states, forms, and system messaging
- Partner with designers, product managers, researchers, and engineers to shape clear, user-centered solutions and influence product direction through content
- Audit existing experiences and propose data-informed improvements to terminology, clarity, and structure
- Contribute to content strategy by identifying patterns, gaps, and opportunities across the product
- Uphold UX writing standards, accessibility best practices, and voice and tone guidelines
- Draft and refine UX copy across the experience, balancing clarity, empathy, and business needs
- Review designs and prototypes, providing content-led feedback that improves usability and flow
- Participate in cross-functional check-ins to align on requirements, decisions, and tradeoffs
- Collaborate asynchronously with stakeholders, incorporating feedback while exercising strong content judgment
- Document decisions and patterns to support consistency across the product
Requirements
- Five to seven or more years of experience in content design, UX writing, or user-focused product writing for digital products
- Demonstrated ability to independently own content work from concept through release
- Three or more years of proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional product teams
- Three or more years of experience applying content standards, voice and tone guidelines, and accessibility best practices across complex experiences
- Experience working within complex or enterprise-scale products is preferred
- Experience partnering with research and using qualitative or quantitative insights to inform content decisions is preferred
- Experience contributing to or defining voice and tone systems is preferred
- Bachelor's degree in English, Writing, Communications, UX, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Portfolio demonstrating strong UX fundamentals, clear problem-solving, and impact, with specific role and contributions detailed for each project
- Content design and UX writing expertise
- Cross-functional product content delivery
- Strong judgment and systems thinking
- User-centered mindset and approach
- Ability to craft cohesive narratives and content strategies
- Proficiency in applying accessibility best practices
- Experience with voice and tone guidelines
- Data-informed decision making
- Ability to identify patterns and opportunities across products
- Strong collaboration and communication abilities
- Independent work and self-direction
- Problem-solving through content solutions
Additional Details
- Location: Remote
- Duration: 3 months
- Pay Range*: $41 - $46.50 per hour
- Weekly Schedule: 40 hours
- Job Status: Non-Exempt
- Application Deadline: Apply within 72 hours of the posting date to ensure consideration.
This Role Is Eligible For The Following Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Hospital plans
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Company paid Basic Life and AD&D as well as voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Company paid short and long-term disability
- Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave(PTO, Allegis Group Paid Family Leave, Parental Leave
Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.
AGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email accommodation@allegisglobalsolutions.com for other accommodation options.
In accordance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, employment is contingent upon verification of identity and authorization to work in the United States. All persons hired will be required to complete Form I-9 and provide acceptable documentation as required by law.
Please note that we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position. These tools may analyze application materials and assist our team in identifying candidates whose qualifications best match the requirements of the role. If you have questions about our use of AI in the hiring process, or would like more information, please contact us.
- We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to protected classifications.
Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
