Senior Technical Writer

at  aPriori Technologies

Description:
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Senior Technical Writer with knowledge of docs tooling, to help develop content for our suite of manufacturing and cost estimating software products, and to transform our writing platform and tools.
Reporting to the Head of User Content, you’ll work closely with our development teams, product managers, and other groups.

Requirements:

• Have some interest and experience with implementing and maintaining documentation technologies, including working with scripts, APIs, and transforming documentation platforms.
• Have 5+ years’ experience developing documentation for software products, with a track record of writing clear, concise, comprehensive documentation on complex, multi-level software products[KG1] [DB2] .
• Ability to be “hands-on” with our software at all user levels, and to incorporate contributory source materials including functional specifications, demo recordings, hands-on product usage and verbal discussion to develop documentation.
• Have an interest in, or experience with, docs-as-code approaches.
• Have experience with documentation tools such as MadCap Flare

• Maintain and improve our aPriori documentation : Deliver high-quality documentation to our user base, primarily for our aPriori Cloud documentation set, including aPriori Design, aPriori Workspace, and other products. Work with the software and quality engineers, product managers, trainers, usability experts, and other content developers within an Agile product development process.
• Drive the transformation of our documentation platform : Develop tools and platform changes for our docs, to enable a collaborative culture of content creation throughout the company. Taking a “docs-as-code” approach, drive improvements in our documentation tools and liaising with our engineering teams to collaborate on larger technology projects.

Requirements:

• Have some interest and experience with implementing and maintaining documentation technologies, including working with scripts, APIs, and transforming documentation platforms.
• Have 5+ years’ experience developing documentation for software products, with a track record of writing clear, concise, comprehensive documentation on complex, multi-level software products[KG1] [DB2] .
• Ability to be “hands-on” with our software at all user levels, and to incorporate contributory source materials including functional specifications, demo recordings, hands-on product usage and verbal discussion to develop documentation.
• Have an interest in, or experience with, docs-as-code approaches.
• Have experience with documentation tools such as MadCap Flare.