UX Copywriter – In-Vehicle Digital Interfaces

Location Warwickshire
Job type: Contract
Salary: £27.21p/h Inside IR35 Via UMBRELLA
Contact name: Laura Hopson

Contact email: lhopson@select-engineering.net
Contact phone: 01245403560
Job ref: 37091488
Published: about 2 months ago
Duration: 12 months (rolling)
Expiry date: 01 Jul 2026 23:59
Startdate: ASAP

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

  • As a UX Copywriter for In-Vehicle Digital Interfaces, you will shape the voice, clarity, and effectiveness of all textual touchpoints within our digital cockpit experiences.

  • Working at the intersection of design, engineering, and brand, you will define how our vehicles communicate, ensuring every message is intuitive, concise, on-brand, and compliant with safety and regulatory standards.

  • You will be responsible for reviewing, refining, and approving all in-vehicle text including infotainment, clusters, notifications, warning messages, settings, and connected services.

  • You will also lead the development of messaging strategies, patterns, tone of voice guidelines, and frameworks that support consistent communication across platforms and vehicle lines.


Key Responsibilities

UX Writing & Content Design

  • Review and refine all text displayed on in-vehicle digital interfaces.

  • Produce clear, concise, and user-centred copy including labels, CTAs, menus, error messages, system prompts, warning messages, and instructional content.

  • Ensure all content aligns with JLR’s brand voice and supports a premium customer experience.

  • Ensure text is translatable, culturally appropriate, and scalable across global markets.

Warning Messaging Strategy

  • Define warning messaging principles, guidance, and language standards.

  • Lead a recurring cross‑functional forum to ideate, review, and approve warning messages.

  • Establish, maintain, and release scalable message libraries and copy patterns to drive consistency across nameplates and platforms.

Collaboration & Delivery

  • Work closely with interaction designers, product owners, HMI engineers, and researchers to ensure content enhances overall user experience.

  • Contribute to design reviews, user testing, and iterative refinement of digital cockpit features.

Research & Continuous Improvement

  • Use insights from user research, usability testing, telematics data, and competitive analysis to optimise content.

  • Champion UX writing and content design best practices across the organisation.

Skills & Experience

Essential

  • Expert command of the English language, with impeccable grammar and clarity.

  • Proven experience in UX writing, content design, or product writing for digital interfaces (preferably embedded or hardware-related).

  • Exceptional writing and editing skills with a focus on clarity, brevity, and user experience.

  • Experience working within design teams using tools such as Figma, Jira, Confluence, or similar.

  • Understanding of UX/UI principles, design systems, and content patterns.

  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and navigate cross-functional decision making.

Desirable

  • Experience in automotive, consumer electronics, or other embedded systems.

  • Familiarity with internationalisation (i18n) and localisation (l10n) best practices.

  • Knowledge of HMI standards, accessibility principles, and multimodal interface design.

  • Ability to contribute to user research and testing activities.

Attributes

  • Detail-oriented and committed to quality.

  • Strong communicator with the ability to advocate for content design.

  • Empathetic, user-focused mindset.

  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.