The ideal candidate for the Technical Writer role will be responsible for creating and writing various types of user documentation including howto 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:
- Bachelors 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 customerready documents around the content.
- Ability to write in explanatory and procedural styles for technical and nontechnical audiences and be skilled at prioritization and multitasking
- Ability to document technical software systems