Technical Writer

Aquent
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 5/26/2023 CLOSED ON 5/27/2023

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Writer position at Aquent?

Job Title: Technical Writer III

Client Location: New York, NY (hybrid T, W, Th onsite)

Starting: ASAP

Salary/Pay Rate: $60 - $63/hr benefits

Firm, non-negotiable: No

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 6 months

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

Technical writers plan, create, and maintain educational content as an integral part of the engineering or user experience. The content is often in the form of documentation, but may also be UI text, sample code, videos, or other educational material. Regardless of the content medium, technical writers are distinguished by their abilities to explain complex topics in a way thats useful to their audience.

  • Edit technical content for client's Trust & Safety teams
  • Manage ongoing updates, set, and own all deadlines
  • Understand, know, and update standards, templates, editorial guidelines, and globalization best practices
  • Work with the Product Management, Program Management, Engineering and Operations teams

Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Technical Communications, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7 years of experience in technical writing
  • Experience with technical documentation and analytics
  • Experience developing technical documentation and working directly with engineering

Desired:

  • 10 years of experience in technical writing
  • Experience researching and writing documentation

The target hiring compensation range for this role is the equivalent of $60 - $63 an hour.

Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

Additional benefits offered include; medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in 401k plan with company match.

Client Description:

A giant in the Tech Industry, this company's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This company is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything they dofrom how they build their products to how they build their workforce. Consistently named one of Forbes top employers, this company works hard to attract, retain and progress the best Talent.

A career here gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger:

Expanding Opportunity - Providing people with information, tools and services to help them build knowledge, fuel curiosity, and unlock opportunity.

Protecting Users - Keeping billions of people safer online.

Including all Voices - Building a world where progress, equitable outcomes, diversity, and inclusion can be realities both inside and outside our workplace.

Responding to Crisis - Helping those affected by crisis through products, people and partners.

Advancing Sustainability - Unifying practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission to foster sustainability at scale.

Recommended Skills

  • Data Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Information Technology
  • Product Management
  • Program Management
  • Research

Salary : $60 - $63

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