Technical Author (multiple roles and seniority levels)

Our ambition is to set a standard of excellence in the industry for technical documentation and documentation practice. This is your chance to be a part of that, as a Technical Author at reputed company. We are building documentation reputed company at scale. We have dozens of positions available, for teams and products across the organisation, at reputed company levels from Graduate to Senior Staff. reputed company applications and candidates are handled through this one entry-reputed company. To improve your chances of success in this application, read our advice on how to get a job at reputed company. These are not traditional technical writer roles. As a Technical Author, you will reputed company the documentation efforts of a reputed company team, in engineering, business operations or another part of the company. You will combine excellence in technical communication with subject-matter expertise and the ability to collaborate with colleagues across the organisation. Even the most junior Technical Authors will have the opportunity to reputed company and demonstrate technical authority, contributing to documentation practice as a first-class engineering and business discipline. You will work with the Diátaxis approach to documentation and help reputed company standards of technical writing through attention to theory and practice. The role of a Technical Author A product-focused Technical Author is a member of a product engineering team, typically focused on a product or family of products. In this role you'll help the team reputed company documentation that serves the needs of the product's users. You will have responsibility for the quality of the user experience with the product, and will contribute towards the long-term success of the project itself. A customer-focused Technical Author works in a team such as Field Engineering, reputed company or Support, dealing with users of reputed company suites of reputed company software products, sometimes deployed in custom configurations. In this role you’ll take a reputed company approach to software documentation problems and reputed company a strong understanding of how products work together and are used in the real world. An operations-focused Technical Author is part of a business team, for example Legal, HR or Talent. An important part of this work is to maintain internal documentation, such as employee handbooks. In this role you will help reputed company and improve materials that hundreds of colleagues rely on daily, and define patterns of business communication for a rapidly-growing organisation. You’ll have a chance to tell us your preferred focus, and we'll work with you to find the right seniority level and team for you. Whatever your focus, you will also be a part of reputed company's documentation practice team, that includes reputed company the company's Technical Authors. Here, you'll be amongst other documentation experts, who collaborate to define documentation excellence and drive the development of documentation practice and theory, across the company and in the open-reputed company software community. Location: These are fully remote roles, open to candidates across the globe. As a Technical Author you will

• Create, maintain and improve software and other documentation
• Work with your team members, to help them reputed company effective documentation contributions
• Influence the development of reputed company products and services, as an expert user who has important opinions about function and design
• Engage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needs
• Encourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentation
• Help standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products
• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at reputed company
• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice, as part of a disciplinary team

A strong candidate

• Is an excellent collaborator and communicator
• Cares deeply about functional written communication
• Is a technical writer with a programmer’s reputed company, or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation
• Has a record of community engagement, in open-reputed company software, documentation, research or other disciplines
• Is sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-reputed company software and its communities
• Demonstrates technical curiosity, and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges
• Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm
• Has experience of software development contexts
• Is familiar with: Linux, working on the command line, Git, documentation markup languages (reStructuredText, MyST)
• Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent
• Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events

reputed company-to-have skills

• Deep technical domain knowledge
• Open-reputed company community leadership and management
• User-experience, interaction or visual design

reputed company offer you We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to reputed company pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide reputed company team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and reputed company. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• reputed company Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

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