About The Role
Hippo is a digital consultancy building and delivering transformative solutions for public and private sector clients. We are recruiting an Intermediate Content Designer to work as part of a multidisciplinary team that includes data, design, product, delivery, analysis and engineering. The role involves creating clear, concise and accessible content that helps users achieve their goals.
Your Role in a Nutshell
* Write and iterate clear, concise content for digital services, ensuring it follows style guides and accessibility standards (WCAG).
* Participate in user research and use findings to map out content journeys that reduce user effort.
* Collaborate with interaction designers to decide on the best format for content (e.g., text, video, toolkits, or interactive components).
* Facilitate "content crits" to gather feedback and ensure high standards across the team.
* Manage end‑to‑end content production, from initial draft to stakeholder approval and publishing.
About the Candidate
Essential Experience
* Proven experience in content design or copywriting within an Agile delivery environment.
* Ability to simplify complex jargon or legal requirements for a general audience.
* Experience using evidence from user research and web analytics to guide content decisions.
* Strong understanding of accessibility and how to write for screen readers and neurodivergent users.
Desirable Experience
* Experience working on public sector projects following GDS standards.
* Knowledge of content management systems (CMS) and basic HTML.
* Experience contributing to a content community of practice or style guide development.
About The Company
We offer a competitive salary and a broad benefits package, including:
* Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%)
* 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays
* Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
* Critical illness cover
* Life assurance and death in service cover
* Volunteer days
* Cycle‑to‑work scheme for avid cyclists
* Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
* Season ticket loans
* Financial and general wellbeing sessions
* Flexible benefits scheme with options including private health cover, private dental cover, additional company pension contributions, extra holidays, wellbeing contribution, charity contributions, and tree planting.
Hippo is an equal‑opportunity employer. We actively encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent people and those with disabilities. We strive to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments throughout our practices.
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