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