Senior UX Writer (Contractor)
Senior UX Writer (Contractor)
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About the Role
Were seeking a Senior UX Writer (contractor remote) to help us craft how travelers experience KAYAK through language. If you excel at crafting clear consistent and useful copy that puts the traveler first lets talk!
What Youll Do
- Work mainly with our Product Marketing & UX teams
- Craft and optimize product copy: Write thoughtful traveler-first messaging across web app and email keeping tone clarity and consistency top of mind. Focus areas might include features like Trips Explore Flex Dates and Price Alerts.
- Support onboarding and education flows: Help guide new travelers through features with tooltips modals and walkthrough copy thats as useful as it is human.
- Experiment and test: Partner with product marketing and UX research to explore new ways of saying things - and measure what works best.
- Collaborate across teams: Work alongside Designers PMs Brand and Localization teams to make sure our messaging travels well (literally and figuratively).
What Were Looking For
- 5 years of proven experience in UX writing or product content design
- Native-level fluency in English
- Can adhere and align writing with an established brand tone of voice
- A portfolio that shows smart user-centered copy across digital platforms
- Experience in travel e-commerce or data-rich products is a plus
- Strong systems thinker - you know how to scale messaging with documentation
- Comfortable working with data A/B tests and UX research insights and crafting easily-followed measurement tracking for results
- Clear communicator and natural collaborator
- Self-directed remote-ready and good with async workflows
- Bonus points if youve used Figma Jira Slack a CMS or localization tools
- Available for 10-20 hours per week with the ability to increase
What You Might Work On
- Onboarding messages for the KAYAK Trips feature (calendar sync notifications etc.)
- Rewriting the Explore or Flex Dates copy to better highlight the value and adhere to KAYAK style
- Helping evaluate user benefits for products in a qualitative measure and structuring benefit priorities
- Helping build a scalable messaging library to keep our copy consistent and efficient
About KAYAK
KAYAK part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the worlds leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms we help people find their perfect flight stay rental car cruise or vacation package. Were also redefining the in-travel experience with our app and new accommodation software. For more information visit .
Working with KAYAK makes you part of a global network that includes KAYAKs portfolio of metasearch brands including SWOODOO checkfelix momondo Cheapflights Mundi and HotelsCombined. Many employees are dedicated to one brand but we all have the benefit of using each others strengths and insights. Together were able to help people experience the world through dining and travel.
KAYAK is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply for roles on our team. Whoever you are just be you.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Contract
