Senior Technical Writer

Tekwissen

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a British-owned education publishing and assessment services company that serves schools, corporations, and students directly. The company owns several educational media brands, including Addison-Wesley, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, eCollege, Longman, Scott Foresman, and others.

Job Title: Senior Technical Writer

Location: Hoboken, NJ, 07030

Duration: 5 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Remote

Job Description:

ROLE SUMMARY

The User Assistance team for Higher Ed creates user-focused, data-informed, accessible, web- and mobile-based content to help students and educators use our products to accomplish their goals.
We work hard to make sure we're in the right place at the right time, with just enough information to give our users the guidance they need, and we're constantly working to raise the bar in both our writing and our delivery.
A culture of collaboration, with each other and with our partner teams, supports everything we do.
As part of the Customer Success team, we get to work with people every day who have a passion for delivering exceptional customer experience, and have direct access to our users.
We also work closely with product management, the Customer Service team, and the User Experience team to understand users' questions and pain points, to make sure our content is as useful as it can possibly be.

REQUIREMENTS

As the ideal new Senior Writer for the User Assistance team, you:
Have least 7 years of experience as a software technical writer creating accessible, user-focused, context-sensitive end-user content
Have a BS/BA degree with a technical background
Have a portfolio of writing samples showing versatility, creativity, and innovation, ideally including user interface writing examples as well
Are proficient with Madcap Flare (at least 3 years' experience) and HTML editors
Have experience working with UX designers to create user interface text
Have experience with Agile software development practices
Have excellent written English with a good sense of style and the ability to write simple, friendly content
Have experience working in a large, complex, and distributed organization, enjoy collaborating, and have the people skills to work well in teams
Can adapt to our current ways of working while also bringing your experience and expertise to help us improve
Master new products and features quickly and efficiently
Can work with minimal managerial oversight, while keeping managers informed
Have a positive and imaginative approach to problem solving, can accept feedback gracefully, and have the experience and judgement to discern when to accept it and when to push back

Bonus points if you have

Experience writing for the educational community (instructors, students, and administrators)
Experience with a source control system like GitHub
Familiarity with JIRA

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

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