About SJ

Words are my passion. I’ve worked in content design for 15+ years. I started as a software engineer for 10 years, then a marketing writer, and then quickly became obsessed with content strategy and design. I’ve worked at companies such as Stash, CVS, TIAA, Fidelity, and Bank of America.

I approach problems with a firm knowledge of content strategy, design and UX. I’m familiar with conducting research on content and UX and working from those findings as well as quantified metrics.

Content Leadership Skills

Scaling/building teams

Developing foundational documentation

Creating hiring best practices

Designing onboarding processes

Collaborating on content style guidelines

Designing workflow processes

Working out effective content strategy heuristics

Designing useful and efficient content strategy deliverables and archiving

Conducting content inventories and audits

Designing and conducting content review processes

Training and mentoring new managers and content strategists

Teaching at Bentley University User Experience Design Center

Speaking nationally on content strategy topics such as: Building teams that trust, content first design, presenting content strategy for stakeholder buy-in, and the art of the difficult conversation.

Always advocating for content strategy and design and UX Writing within the organization

Publications

I’m also an author with a book called Content First Design coming out in Fall 2024 from XML Press. In addition I’ve published three books of literary criticism, 65+ author interviews and literary articles, two novels, and I’m in the thick of writing another novel. You can find my literary work under the name Sarah Anne Johnson.