Technical Writer

The ideal candidate for the Technical Writer role will be responsible for creating and writing various types of user documentation, including how-to guides, manuals, references, or instructions. This candidate should have strong communication skills that enable them to explain complicated concepts in a simple manner. This individual will also meet with customer representatives frequently in order to understand the required content. 

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, organize, write and edit operational procedures and manuals and create templates if none are provided by the organization
  


• Research, develop and document technical design, requirements and test documents
  


• Explain technical ideas in simple language
  


• Meet with customer representatives to establish technical specifications
  


• Create user documentation for a variety of material
  

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  


• Experience in the technology industry
  


• Strong written and verbal communication skills
  


• Ability to understand highly technical information
  


• Ability to work well with a team of application developers including the ability to take content provided by the technical team and build customer-ready documents around the content.
  


• Ability to write in explanatory and procedural styles for technical and non-technical audiences and be skilled at prioritization and multi-tasking
  


• Ability to document technical software systems