Technical/UX Writer, Roku
API Documentation
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Open for applications
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide its users with a more convenient and cost effective way of watching the programs they love.
Role
Who you are
- An ability to explain complex technical concepts in a clear and easy-to-understand manner
- Experience as a UX Writer on multiple shipped software products, and the ability to discuss your specific contributions in a compelling way
- Experience collaborating with UX, Product Managers, and management to write and refine copy through rapid iterations, meeting the goals of both users and the business
- A passion for finding just the right words, communicated at just the right time, to help users succeed in their tasks
- An ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities while ensuring that work fits within an effective overall communication framework
- Endless empathy for the user and a desire to advocate relentlessly for them
- 3+ years’ experience and the ability to work independently with the Product and UX teams
What the job involves
- We're seeking a skilled Technical/UX Writer to join our Roku Ads Manager team, focusing on in-platform copywriting, public-facing API documentation, and help center content
- This role supports highly strategic and data-driven product, engineering, and UX teams
- You'll collaborate closely to ensure clear and intuitive user experiences for advertisers, API partners, and internal users, contributing to the success of our growing advertising platform
- Partner with UX Designers on their projects to provide clear and precise user-centered copy for their designs
- Create clear technical API documentation for development partners, collaborating with Product and Engineering
- Write clear, concise, and user-friendly copy, including UI text, microcopy, notifications, error messages, and onboarding flows
- Devise content strategies that give users intuitive, familiar patterns of instructions, labels, and messaging within UX designs across multiple partner tools
- Collaborate with other UX Writers to maintain consistency across all user touchpoints
- Work with strong User Researchers to determine and execute the ideal research methodology to evaluate and improve your copy
- Own your work and communicate effectively, articulating your decisions to colleagues from diverse disciplines
- Drive projects forward, proactively addressing roadblocks in order to prioritize team progress
Our take
According to Nielsen data, the average streamer spends over seven minutes searching for something to watch. Streaming services use customers' viewing history to make suggestions, but these are limited to programs licensed for that particular service.
Roku provides an integrated streaming service that offers TV channels, movies and third-party streaming services, resulting in an all-in-one streaming platform. The service can be accessed through a variety of customized subscription packages and fees.
Roku stands out in the streaming industry by bringing many competitors together in one package. The startup provides further innovative services such as a weekly TV series named 'Roku Recommends' which uses first-party data to recommend essential viewing to users. Alongside funding filmmakers through its "Change Makers Program", Roku also acquired its own original library of shows through its acquisition of now-defunct Quibi's library in 2021. After successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released in 2023, further exemplifying the streaming company's wider ambitions in the media sector.
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Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2016
$45.5m
LATE VC
Nov 2015
$45.5m
SERIES H
Total funding: $247.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, wellness and financial benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Anthony Wood
(CEO)Studied Engineering at Texas A&M before founding their first company in 1986. They held VP roles at both Adobe and Netflix.
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