Content Strategist, Web

Uber has made more than 450 cities around the world more liveable by building better transportation solutions and providing greater economic opportunity. But this is only the beginning, and we’re looking for top copywriting talent to tell our Uber story globally.As a copywriter on the Uber Marketing/Content team, you’ll craft & execute the voice and positioning of the Uber brand alongside exceptionally talented writers, designers, engineers, and performance marketers in a fast-paced, rapidly growing, highly collaborative environment. We are deeply user-centric and the challenges we tackle require bold ideas, creative problem solving, obsession with pursuing perfection, ownership, and fearlessness in the face of uncertainty. And sometimes, that means writing the style guide as you go.

What you’ll do:

Develop, write, and deliver persuasive marketing copy for uber.com, marketing campaigns, the blog, rider and driver guides —for hundreds of millions of riders and partners all over the world.
Build market awareness and drive engagement with a wide range of Uber products, services, and audiences (riders, drivers, B2B, developers).
Contribute to localization process, guidelines and materials of materials to ensure consistency across regions.
Include and optimize for SEO goals at all times.
Concept, champion, and execute on the BIG ideas while continuing to ship the day-to-day deliverables.
Imagine the future, articulate it and sell your ideas to get them built, designed and shipped.
Bring a high level of organization and structure, strategy, storytelling, writing techniques and personality to the Uber brand voice globally.
Lead other more junior copywriters when necessary. Develop templates & processes to aid scale and provide continuity.
Pitch and present to a variety of executive and peer audiences and defend your work.
Champion writing for the greater Uber community and articulate the Uber voice clearly through playbooks and best practices.

Why you’d be a good fit:

Your marketing copy gets attention and elicits action. You’re skilled at translating features into benefits, crafting messages with emotional resonance, and figuring out how to make them stick. Your audience takes action because of your words.

The details matter to you. You understand the nuanced implications—sounds, connotations, tone, cadence—of synonyms and syntax, and your itch for elegant language pushes you to polish every line until it shines.

Your writing means business. Your approach is rooted in bottom-line thinking, using analytics and data to guide creative decisions and support arguments. Ultimately, your communications persuade and drive specific actions.

You iterate quickly and don’t miss deadlines. You know how to move at supersonic speed without compromising quality. You do whatever it takes to keep projects on track while keeping messaging on target.

Your influence is felt beyond the page. As a force multiplier for your team, selling your work and ideas is one of your most impressive skills. You defend your decisions and push for what you think is right for the business objectives and audience needs, using logic, evidence and storytelling to make your case.

Perks:

Employees are given Uber credits every month
The rare opportunity to change the world such that everyone around you is using the product you built. We’re not just another social web app, we’re moving real people and assets and reinventing transportation and logistics globally.
Sharp, motivated co-workers in a fun office environment.

Benefits (U.S.):