Career timeline

Ella Scott · UX + Content

Previously

  • Citibank
  • American Family Insurance
  • Warner Bros. Discovery
  • WME
  • Forbes
  • Fujitsu
  • Natrol
  • Jarrow Formulas
  • Vytalogy Wellness
  • Nexstar Media
  • FOX
  • KTLA
  • KRON
  • WGN
  • Getaround
  • Neil Patel Digital
  • WhistleOut
  • FE International
  • WorkWell Technologies
  • VoIP Studios

Work history, earliest to most recent

2012 to now

Independent contractor

UX, content, and technical writer

UX and technical content for regulated wellness and enterprise platforms. Prompt systems across Claude, Gemini, and Copilot for drafting, tailoring, review, and QA. SEO articles for Nexstar Media, published through KTLA, KRON, WGN, and FOX.

2017 to 2018 · Carlsbad, CA

WorkWell Technologies

Senior UX writer and content strategist

End-to-end content strategy and user journeys across complex product ecosystems. Reusable content systems and accessible language standards that reduced customer support tickets by 30%. Full UX content for a cloud-based time clock, from onboarding to error and success states.

2018 to 2020 · Remote

WhistleOut

UX writer and digital content writer

Accessible, SEO-driven UI/UX B2B and B2C content in Figma, WordPress, Google Analytics, and Semrush. Researching and writing new products and technologies, including wearable health tech. Increased traffic by 15% with Mailchimp.

2021 to 2022 · Remote

FE International

Technical writer and digital content writer

B2B content for the company brands and the CEO, with placements in Forbes and founder-focused podcasts. Interviewed C-level leaders to turn complex tech insight into clear writing, and built SOPs and reusable content frameworks.

2022 to 2025 · Remote

American Family Insurance

Lead UX writer and lead content designer

UI/UX and technical copy for insurance experiences serving 12M+ users, from discovery through launch. Built SOPs in SharePoint for improved content iteration, authored content in Sitecore. Helped enable a better buying journey, contributing to an 18% sales increase over two years.

2023 · Remote contract

Warner Bros. Discovery

Senior UX writer and content strategist

Led UX and educational content strategy for the Warner Bros. Consumer Products website. Built customer and employee knowledge bases with tiered access, and designed the information architecture, user flows, and sitemaps in Figma alongside product, design, and engineering.

2026 · Irving, TX

Citibank

Senior UX writer

Embedded on Citi’s in-house creative team, Skyline, through Tonic3. Copy across landing pages, coded web ads, and in-product experiences for the bank’s regulated financial products. Worked alongside designers, creative leads, and legal and compliance to keep messaging accurate, consistent, and on brand.

2026

Emerge

Product designer and content architect

Conceived and directed a suite of six trauma-informed app prototypes for domestic abuse survivors, owning UX strategy, content architecture, all UX copy, and accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA. Architected a single-source content system powering all six. This is a work in progress.

2026

Handled

Founder, product and content designer

Conceived, designed, wrote, and built a privacy-first life-admin app. Owned the whole surface: information architecture, every word of UX copy, onboarding, AI concierge intake, and error and empty states. Built the brand from scratch and wrote a 54-article Help Center.


Foundation

Education and skills

MFA, Writing for Digital Media and Screenwriting
Antioch University, Santa Barbara
BA, Theatre and Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego

Content and UX

  • Content design
  • UX writing
  • Content strategy
  • Information architecture
  • Voice and tone
  • Content standards, audits, and governance
  • Style guide development
  • Plain language
  • Accessibility, WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 AA
  • Apple HIG
  • Research and testing informed iteration

AI and content systems

  • Prompt engineering
  • Assistant and generative interface content
  • AI directed product design and build
  • Output evaluation for accuracy, tone, and accessibility
  • Content governance for AI experiences
  • Single source content architecture
  • Structured and programmatic content

Tools

  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Copilot
  • Figma
  • Jira
  • Sitecore
  • WordPress
  • SharePoint
  • Slack
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Microsoft Office
  • Google Analytics
  • Semrush

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