Description:

As a Technical Author you will

• Create, maintain and improve software and other documentation
• Work with your team members, to help them make effective documentation contributions
• Influence the development of Canonical products and services, as an expert user who has important opinions about function and design
• Engage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needs
• Encourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentation
• Help standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products
• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at Canonical
• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice, as part of a disciplinary team

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Holds a BSc / BA Degree or equivalent
• Is an excellent collaborator and communicator
• Cares deeply about functional written communication
• Is a technical writer with a programmer’s mindset, or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation
• Has a record of community engagement, in open-source software, documentation, research or other disciplines
• Is sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communities
• Demonstrates technical curiosity, and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges
• Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm
• Has experience of software development contexts
• Is familiar with: Linux, working on the command line, Git, documentation markup languages (reStructuredText, MyST)
• Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Deep technical domain knowledge
• Open-source community leadership and management
• User-experience, interaction or visual design.

What we offer colleagues

• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
• We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
• In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
• We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

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