Write technical content for complex software products.
Collaborate with different teams such as Product Management, Quality Assurance, Development, Product Design to understand new features, enhancements, use cases, and issues in the product.
Understand documentation requirements and customer needs, estimate documentation efforts, plan releases, and communicate work updates to stakeholders proactively.
Prepare, edit, publish, and maintain documentation for product releases.
Research complex technical concepts (independently and collaboratively) and develop effective deliverables to serve customer needs.
Organize existing documents, identify documentation gaps, improve documentation quality, and drive new projects.
Build relationships with customer-facing teams (Sales, Support, and Success team) and use their feedback to drive simplicity and usability of documentation.
Develop content that addresses complex problems, drives user engagement, and decreases support tickets.
Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment with less supervision.
Follow the established style guide and templates to ensure consistency.
Adhere to the defined documentation process and work with a team of writers.
Requirements
4 to 6 years of experience in technical writing.
BE (Computer Science, Electronics and Communication), B.Sc. (Computer Science), BCA, MCA, or related degree.
Experience of documenting web services technologies, APIs, SaaS applications, enterprise-class client/server software, IDEs, or SDKs with the ability to read code.
Working knowledge of:
Documentation tools (such as Zendesk, Confluence)
Image-editing tools (such as Snagit)
Video-editing tools (such as Camtasia)
Project management tools (such as Jira)
HTML and markdown
Style Guide (such as MSTP)
Understanding of documentation types such as user guides, release notes, API references, SDK documentation, knowledge base articles, and other resources.
Good planning, organizational, interpersonal, and communication (verbal and written) skills.
Excellent editing skills with attention to detail.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to make progress with less-than-complete information.
Job Classification
Industry: Advertising & MarketingFunctional Area / Department: Content, Editorial & JournalismRole Category: Content Management (Print / Online / Electronic)Role: Technical Content DeveloperEmployement Type: Full time