Tech Writer
7 months ago
**JOB DESCRIPTION** Technical writer for design system (London)**
Focus: Documentation and educational content for our Salt design system.
Eight or more years’ full-time writing/editing experience required.
As a technical writer, you’ll support the evolution of the J.P. Morgan’s Salt Design System. Collaborating with designers, developers, information architects, product owners and content strategists, you’ll create documentation that drives ease of implementation by following our guidelines for style, voice and tone.
**Salt design system**
Salt is an open-source solution for building exceptional products and digital experiences in financial services and other industries. It offers well-documented, accessible components as well as comprehensive design templates, style libraries and assets.
Salt will be the vehicle for the digital delivery of a universal design language—with best-in-class business patterns, content and accessibility guides—plus tooling and adoption resources.
For more information, see Salt.
**Salt team**
Our mission is to design and develop a world-class design language and component library. It will enable the firm and clients to rapidly develop global digital experiences that are consistent, demonstrate strong brand identity, and span multiple products and delivery channels.
**The work**
**Responsibilities include**:
- Editing and rewriting documentation for Salt offerings, including design components and patterns.
- Writing, editing and rewriting foundational education covering design, content, accessibility, etc.
- Distilling technical information for a broad audience.
- Evaluating and auditing existing content.
- Striving for consistency in presentation and depth of detail.
- Working closely with stakeholders to improve content.
- Providing insights for improving the content experience.
- Contributing improvements to the content guidelines.
- Participating in discussions about the UI Toolkit user experience.
**Essential writing experience/understanding**:
- Digital documentation editing/writing.
- Brand and stylebook guidelines.
- Content from many contributors edited with a consistent voice and tone.
**Essential UX experience/technical understanding**:
- Digital user experience.
- Technical concepts (e.g., design component functionality), and how to communicate them to a variety of audiences.
**Preferred experience**:
- Design systems.
- Software development.
- JavaScript, React.
- Atomic design principles.
- B2B financial services content.
- AP Stylebook.
**We Value Diversity**
We value the unique skills of every person on our team. We’re an organization that thrives on diversity and encourages each employee’s growth and development.
If you’re looking to build your career as part of a global team tackling big challenges that impact people and companies around the world, we want to meet you.
**Digital Experience Design group**
We’re Digital Experience Design, an award-winning team recognized for its accomplishments in design and innovation. Our group is global, with over 200 product designers, UX researchers, service designers, content strategists, creative technologists and other specialists.
We partner with business, product, and technology stakeholders across J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank to create world-class fintech products and nondigital solutions that drive engagement and increase client satisfaction.
Simply put, we create solutions that are better by design.
**ABOUT US**
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
**ABOUT THE TEAM**
The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic