Monday, January 26, 2015

[KITlist-Tech] Technical Writer (Pleasanton, CA)

 

Please direct your responses to: gjose@us-buxton.com

 


POSITION – TECHNICAL WRITER(S)

DURATION – 6 MONTHS +

LOCATION – PLEASANTON, CA

TYPE - CONTRACT

API Writer

Responsibilities

• Write API reference, conceptual, and task-oriented documentation that promotes customer adoption

• Test services that you document to ensure accuracy and completeness

• Create samples to include in documentation

• Develop great relationships with coworkers and members of development, QA, customer support, and other teams

Requirements

• Experience designing, writing, and testing API reference documentation

• Experience writing documentation for developer and administrator audiences

• Understand industry standard web services technologies (WSDL, XML, SOAP, JSON, and REST)

• Ability to read, modify, and test sample code

• Experience authoring in XML and DITA is a big plus

Technical Writer

The ideal candidate is an outstanding writer with a proven ability to manage projects independently, and to write content targeted to professional and technical audiences.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with development, customer support, product management, and various other teams to develop high-quality documentation for a targeted audience.

• Draft, edit, and publish content for multiple deliverables, including online help, system messages, release notes, and administrator support.

• Maintain content for and manage multiple projects simultaneously, learn the products, and work as an integral part of the product team.

• Prepare content for online delivery.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of content development experience with enterprise applications. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) company experience is preferred.

• Must have excellent verbal communication skills, flexibility, the ability to manage priorities, familiarity with traditional and agile software development life cycles, and the ability to interact with all levels within the development organization.

• Experience implementing or working with enterprise software preferred.

• Experience producing release notes and business software documentation.

• Ability to work effectively in a start-up environment, where tools, processes, and deliverables are not necessarily predefined.

• Familiarity with XML authoring tools required.

• Familiarity with DITA or other topic-based writing methodology.

• Functional knowledge or experience in Financial Services, Accounting, or Human Resources highly desirable.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

TO APPLY – PLEASE SEND YOUR WORD RESUME TO GJOSE@US-BUXTON.COM

SUBJECT HEADING – GJ_TW150126

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