UX Writer II - Fintech

Role Description:

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

About Role:

We’re looking for a UX Writer with at least 3 years of experience shipping products to join our growing UX Writing and Content Design community of over 70 writers. This role is part of Booking.com’s FinTech business unit, a dynamic, complex, and exciting organisation that enables Booking.com to provide a wide array of FinTech products to over 2 million accommodation providers.

As a UX Writer in the B2B side of Booking.com’s FinTech Business Unit, you’ll support multiple teams to enable accommodation and trip providers to benefit from easy-to-use, secure, and regulated payments through our payments platform, and you’ll contribute to building new innovative fintech products to support the growth of their business.

In this role, you'll partner directly with highly iterative product teams, while enjoying the support, community and resources of a large, experienced UX organisation made up of nearly 200 writers, designers and researchers. You’ll work closely with a UX Writing Manager for your area who will support you in your growth and development.

UX Writers at Booking.com write clear and concise quality messaging that considers the end-to-end user experience. You need to be an excellent communicator and collaborator – we work in a dynamic and diverse environment where inclusivity, openness and humility are key. Almost everything you write will be translated into 44+ languages and dialects, and you’ll need to work closely with peers and stakeholders like Marketing, Brand and Legal to deliver at velocity and scale.

To learn more about working as a UX Writer at Booking.com check out B.Writes, our Medium publication.

Please apply with your English CV and link your portfolio or writing samples. Samples should include UX/product writing work specifying your role and clearly defining problems, solutions and your UX processes.

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Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Write in a clear and concise way across online channels, platforms and end-to-end experiences to impact key business metrics
• Send copy to Language Specialists with sufficient context (conceptual and visual) for translating your ideas to local audiences
• Use qualitative and quantitative data, as well as key business metrics to measure the impact of your work and transform those insights into new iterations
• Collaborate with other UX Writers to ensure messaging is aligned across all touchpoints, in line with our craft standards and guidelines
• Work alongside Product Managers, UX Writers, Designers, Researchers, Developers and many others to develop and execute business strategy through your writing

Role Qualifications and Requirements:

• You have a minimum 3 years relevant experience in UX Writing – this includes past experience working in e-commerce or data-driven product teams
• You have a native level fluency in English
• You have a portfolio that demonstrates your UX writing experience
• You’re a passionate advocate for users, dedicated to the craft of writing and creating elegant user experiences
• You write copy that is intuitive, futureproof and scalable
• You are technically savvy, with an understanding of experimentation and deriving data and insights from quantitative and qualitative research
• You have a can-do attitude and work well independently and in a team
• You’re self-driven and take ownership of your ideas to solve challenging problems in an evolving environment
• You thrive on feedback, responding with creative thinking and iterations
• You enjoy working with people of diverse backgrounds, cultures and disciplines
• You are a strong communicator with an eye for detail
• You are able to prioritise multiple projects and stakeholders

Application Process

• The interview process will entail a total of 3 interviews. We require a portfolio or slides about 1-2 of your past projects.

Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities.