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My CV

Aspiring Lead Writer. A master of tone who uses data to help design accessible, engaging, impactful content for real people.

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HousingAnywhere – UX Writer

2023 – Present

  • Leading the content strategy for Tenant Matching and Tenant Verification projects, decreasing time to booking confirmed and boosting conversion.

  • Collaborating with UX Research to test new core terminology; leading the content vision to A/B test this terminology in our booking flow.

  • Redesigning our flow with new terminology, leading to a 16.64% YOY increase in rental applications and a 10.10% YOY increase in total conversions.

  • Leading the content strategy for a major pricing change that increases our take-rate by 15% YOY.

  • Managing communications and working closely with Sales and Support to maintain strong relationship with landlords.

  • Providing context and managing UX content localization into 12 languages. Testing and iterating content based on data and insights — e.g., from Sales, Support, Managed Accounts, Booking Specialists, and Internal Ops.

  • Optimizing content and reducing support queries by introducing Intercom’s Fin AI into our support content creation workflows (articles and chatbot).

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Holvi – UX Writer

2021 – 2023

  • Writing onboarding copy, on-screen instructions and labels, navigational nomenclature, contextual help text, action prompts, microcopy, and transactional emails

  • Creating a voice chart, Holvi glossary, and product style guide to cultivate a scalable ecosystem of UX content

  • Surveying over 1,600 users to gather quantitative data on key TOV metrics; running think aloud sessions to get qualitative data, informing voice across 3 core markets

  • Product writing with a view to localisation and improving content creation flows to provide localisers context at an early stage; mastering translation software

  • Working in scrum with PMs, designers, and developers

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Holvi – Content writer

2020 – 2021

  • Own the English content vision, creating and adhering to a content strategy that maps to business objectives

  • Go where needed; writing, editing and signing off marketing, UX, legal, customer support, and PR content

  • Cultivate a culture where care for language is the norm and champion exceptional writing across Holvi

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Avado – Copy Editor

2018 – 2019

  • Collaborated with product team (product manager, SMEs, designers, learning designers) to deliver content

  • Wrote original scripts for videos on digital marketing and data science, in collaboration with Google and Tableau

  • Wrote various formats of eLearning content – including text modules, interactive exercises, and quizzes

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Just Digital – Proofreader

  • Edited content for consistency, correctness, completeness, and accuracy; applied multiple styles

  • Worked in liaison with designers to tight deadlines

2017 – 2018

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