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Content Designer roles sit at the intersection of UX writing and product strategy, making them a strong fit for OPT students with degrees in communication, human-computer interaction, or English. Most roles qualify as specialty occupations under OPT work authorization. Your 12-month standard OPT window can extend to 36 months with a STEM OPT extension if your degree qualifies.
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Get Access To All JobsAt Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors - Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together - help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
Introduction to Team
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
This Senior Content Designer role is part of the Experience Design Organization team which sits within our Product division. The team uses human-centered design, research, content design, and cross-functional collaboration to create, understand, develop, and test intuitive experiences for travelers and partners. In this role, you will shape clear, cohesive, and meaningful product experiences that help people navigate Expedia’s products and journeys with confidence.
In this role, you will:
- Design and evolve clear, useful, and engaging content experiences that support customer and business needs across products and services.
- Own content design work end to end, from understanding user and business problems through content strategy, creation, testing, launch, and ongoing refinement.
- Partner with product managers, designers, researchers, engineers, and other stakeholders to translate complex requirements into intuitive content solutions.
- Apply content design principles, user research, data, experimentation, and feedback to improve clarity, usability, accessibility, and overall customer outcomes.
- Establish and promote content standards, patterns, and best practices that improve consistency and scalability across experiences and domains.
- Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Content Design, UX Design, Communications, Journalism, English, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field; or equivalent related professional experience.
- Several years of relevant professional experience in content design, UX writing, product content, or a related discipline, delivering content experiences for digital products or services.
- Demonstrated ownership of content design initiatives or experiences across the product development lifecycle, from problem definition through delivery and iteration.
- Strong proficiency in content strategy, information architecture, user-centered design, writing and editing, and communicating complex ideas clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional product and technology teams and using research, metrics, experimentation, or feedback to inform content decisions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing and evolving content systems, patterns, guidelines, or frameworks that support consistent experiences across multiple products, platforms, or domains.
- Demonstrated ability to lead content design approaches, evaluate tradeoffs, and align content solutions with broader product, customer, accessibility, and organizational objectives.
- Track record of improving content and operational excellence through reusable patterns, streamlined workflows, documentation, automation, and disciplined measurement of outcomes.
- Hands-on experience using AI-driven tools or workflows in content design, research, experimentation, or production, with the ability to apply AI/ML concepts safely to improve content quality and customer experiences.
- Experience applying data-driven decision making, qualitative research, experimentation, analytics, or usability testing to evaluate content effectiveness and influence product direction.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $161,000.00 to $225,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $257,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. The total cash range for this position in Austin is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perks
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors - Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together - help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
Introduction to Team
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
This Senior Content Designer role is part of the Experience Design Organization team which sits within our Product division. The team uses human-centered design, research, content design, and cross-functional collaboration to create, understand, develop, and test intuitive experiences for travelers and partners. In this role, you will shape clear, cohesive, and meaningful product experiences that help people navigate Expedia’s products and journeys with confidence.
In this role, you will:
- Design and evolve clear, useful, and engaging content experiences that support customer and business needs across products and services.
- Own content design work end to end, from understanding user and business problems through content strategy, creation, testing, launch, and ongoing refinement.
- Partner with product managers, designers, researchers, engineers, and other stakeholders to translate complex requirements into intuitive content solutions.
- Apply content design principles, user research, data, experimentation, and feedback to improve clarity, usability, accessibility, and overall customer outcomes.
- Establish and promote content standards, patterns, and best practices that improve consistency and scalability across experiences and domains.
- Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Content Design, UX Design, Communications, Journalism, English, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field; or equivalent related professional experience.
- Several years of relevant professional experience in content design, UX writing, product content, or a related discipline, delivering content experiences for digital products or services.
- Demonstrated ownership of content design initiatives or experiences across the product development lifecycle, from problem definition through delivery and iteration.
- Strong proficiency in content strategy, information architecture, user-centered design, writing and editing, and communicating complex ideas clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional product and technology teams and using research, metrics, experimentation, or feedback to inform content decisions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing and evolving content systems, patterns, guidelines, or frameworks that support consistent experiences across multiple products, platforms, or domains.
- Demonstrated ability to lead content design approaches, evaluate tradeoffs, and align content solutions with broader product, customer, accessibility, and organizational objectives.
- Track record of improving content and operational excellence through reusable patterns, streamlined workflows, documentation, automation, and disciplined measurement of outcomes.
- Hands-on experience using AI-driven tools or workflows in content design, research, experimentation, or production, with the ability to apply AI/ML concepts safely to improve content quality and customer experiences.
- Experience applying data-driven decision making, qualitative research, experimentation, analytics, or usability testing to evaluate content effectiveness and influence product direction.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $161,000.00 to $225,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $257,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. The total cash range for this position in Austin is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perks
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Content Designer
Lead with your UX writing portfolio
Content Designers are evaluated almost entirely on portfolio work. Showcase error messages, onboarding flows, and microcopy samples. Employers need to see your writing in product context, not just writing samples from academic or editorial backgrounds.
Target tech companies with dedicated content design teams
Large product companies like Google, Meta, and Salesforce have established content design practices and structured OPT sponsorship workflows. Smaller startups may have the role but lack the immigration infrastructure to process your authorization paperwork efficiently.
Clarify your OPT timeline upfront in applications
Content Designer hiring cycles can run eight to twelve weeks. If your OPT start date or expiration falls within that window, flag it early. Hiring managers appreciate transparency and it avoids last-minute complications around your employment start date.
Align your degree field to the role description
OPT requires your job to be directly related to your degree. Communication, linguistics, HCI, and English degrees map cleanly to Content Designer roles. If your degree is adjacent, document the connection clearly before your employer submits any authorization paperwork.
Pursue STEM OPT if your degree qualifies
Degrees in human-computer interaction, information science, or cognitive science often qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. That extension is frequently the deciding factor for employers willing to invest in your long-term H-1B visa sponsorship after OPT ends.
Ask specifically about H-1B sponsorship history during interviews
Content Designer roles are new enough at many companies that sponsorship history is inconsistent. Ask whether the company has sponsored H-1B petitions for this specific role, not just for engineers. The answer tells you how realistic your long-term path is.
Content Designer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Content Designer job qualify for OPT work authorization?
Yes, Content Designer roles generally qualify for OPT as long as the work is directly related to your degree. Degrees in communication, UX design, English, linguistics, or human-computer interaction support a clear connection. Your employer does not file a petition for OPT, but USCIS requires the employment to fall within your degree field, so document that connection before you start.
Can a Content Designer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not your job title. If your degree is in human-computer interaction, information science, cognitive science, or a related STEM-designated field, you may qualify for the 24-month extension. Content Designer roles supported by a communication or English degree typically do not qualify. Check the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List and confirm with your DSO before assuming eligibility.
Where can I find Content Designer jobs that are open to OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT and international students and filters for roles where employers are open to sponsoring or working with work-authorized candidates. Searching there saves time compared to filtering through general job listings where OPT eligibility is rarely disclosed upfront. Browse Content Designer listings on Migrate Mate to find roles matched to your authorization status.
Do Content Designer employers typically sponsor H-1B visas after OPT?
Some do, but it varies significantly. Large technology companies with established content design teams, such as those in enterprise software or consumer platforms, are more likely to have H-1B sponsorship infrastructure in place. Smaller companies or agencies may not have sponsored the role before. Ask directly during the interview process whether the company has sponsored H-1B petitions for content or UX roles specifically.
What happens to my OPT authorization if I switch from a Content Designer role to a different job?
Your OPT remains valid as long as your new job is also directly related to your degree. Switching from Content Designer to a role in product management or marketing may or may not qualify depending on your degree field. Report any employer or job change to your DSO within ten days, as SEVIS must reflect your current employment. Gaps longer than 90 cumulative days of unemployment can jeopardize your OPT status.