Cebu City, Central Visayas, Philippines
TECHNICAL WRITER
Job Description:
JOB DESCRIPTION
Role:
- Simplify complex technical information into easy-to-understand language for users.
- Collaborate effectively with diverse teams across different functions.
- Handle requests to create or edit content from start to finish, including drafting, coding, revising, and reviewing.
- Ensure accuracy, efficiency, and completeness of all work.
- Create clear and engaging written and visual content while following company style guides and content models.
- Submit drafts and pre-published content for peer review and audit to maintain quality.
- Researching and gathering information from subject matter experts (SMEs), stakeholders, and other sources to understand the product or service being documented.
- Consult with users, designers, and product-development teams to ensure a clear understanding of the user experience.
- Maintain consistency in language, acronyms, and terminology across software products by building and maintaining a "style guide/glossary" of UI copy.
- Work with UX designers and agile teams to provide suitable UI copy for screen designs that align with style guidelines.
- Create and maintain documentation of product interactions in the form of user guides, in-app help, or specification documents with content designers and product owners.
Required Skills
- A degree in Engineering, Information Technology, or other related fields, or a degree in Journalism, English, or Communication.
- Solid writing experience, preferably in a structured authoring environment including any of the following: technical documents, specifications, troubleshooting manuals, or training guides.
- A strong sense of accountability.
- Must have excellent English communication skills (written and oral), stakeholder management skills, and a passion for producing great content
- Must have 2-4 years of experience in writing, editing, and improving existing documentation, while working within a strict style guide or writing, formatting and design standards
- Must have previous experience going through several pages of digital product documentation or source materials and translating those into digestible content for internal or external end users
- Strong portfolio of experience writing UI copy for software, preferably B2B or technical-focused solutions
- Experience writing technical documentation, including user guides, technical manuals or specification documents intended for end-users
- Experience with UX & Software development toolstacks, such as JIRA
- Experience with software development is a must
Salary Range
Junior: 15k-30k
Mid: 31k-40k
Senior: 41k-50k