Product Engineer II User Assistance (ArcGIS Monitor)

Overview

Are you an energetic passionate technical writer who has the desire to inspire support and advocate for our platforms users Use your passion for writing and interest in cutting-edge technology to provide customers with essential user assistance (UA) documentation and other enablement this position youll make our customers successful by creating UA materials for GIS software products. Youll work with subject matter experts design documents and run the software to become a subject matter expert yourself and advocate for the user by creating meaningful content to communicate methodology and best practices.

Esri has a Relocation Assistance Program and can provide support with relocating to the Redlands CA area for this position.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineers to produce and maintain documentation of conceptual topics and step-by-step workflows
• Support a variety of UA materials including installed and online help tutorials blog articles videos and more
• Manage documentation throughout the development cycle and ensure documentation requirements are met for the software release
• Be part of a UA team to produce content that aligns with the appropriate Esri style to contribute to a consistent user experience
• Be part of a product development team to provide functionality feedback and usability testing
• Create and maintain a network with product management and marketing team members to create a consistent and intuitive experience across software and UA content
• Work with software engineers in the product team to envision design build test release and support desktop and enterprise products

Requirements

• 2 years of professional experience in a similar position supporting similar responsibilities
• An understanding of documentation workflows that use HTML XML (DITA) or Markdown
• Experience producing web-based documentation using a content management system (CMS) that involves versioning and reuse of content
• Ability to learn and use software as a customer would to produce the UA materials based on the experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey complex topics concisely clearly and effectively
• Effective time management and organizational skills to manage priorities and tasks as needed in a fast-paced work environment
• Experience with IT observability / system monitoring software or ArcGIS software
• Bachelors degree in GIS English technical writing or a related field

Recommended Qualifications

• Experience with/knowledge of the following:
  • Working on a software development team using the Scrum process
  • GitHub version control or other doc-as-code approach
  • Deploying and/or administering ArcGIS Enterprise ArcGIS Online or other comparable IT system (web/application servers)
  • RDBMS systems (preferably PostgreSQL) including common SQL commands and concepts)
  • General server administration on Windows and Linux
  • Python
• Masters degree in GIS English technical writing or a related field

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