Job description
- Degree or certification in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience
- A minimum of 8 years of experience designing and producing content for a technical audience, such as Software Engineers, System Administrators, or IT professionals
- Experience using content publishing tools to write, format, manage, and publish technical content on the web
- Experience authoring and managing content at an enterprise level, including collaborative writing
- Strong problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams
- Experience designing, planning, and delivering content solutions that meet the needs of technical business customers
Job summary The AWS Documentation team is looking for a senior technical writer/strategist with a minimum of eight years and who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, and has strong content strategy and technical writing background. Ideally, you have a technical background that enables easy interaction with software developers and a demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical documentation. As a writer-strategist, you will be responsible for planning and writing cross-service content that’s easy to use, easy to find, and easy to understand. This role requires you to think critically about the content you build—How content fits together, what content to write, how customers will use it, when they will need it, and how they will find it. You will identify content gaps and propose logical ways to fill them based on data. AWS is constantly moving and that can be one of the best parts about this job! You will always be learning and growing. But our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work. The AWS Documentation team writes and provides support for a diverse audience consisting of developers, DevOps professionals, IT professionals, technical program managers, and scientists. On behalf of our customers, we do much more than just write the docs. We innovate, we research, we learn, and we experiment. We collaborate with product managers to understand our customers’ needs. We partner with software developers to learn the inner workings of AWS services so that we can influence design and the customer experience. We know that what we do makes a difference in the successful adoption and implementation of AWS services. We have a formal mentor program so you can find a mentor that works best for you, based on factors such as location, job family, and job level. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members. Here at AWS, we embrace and learn from our similarities as well as our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion, and we welcome teammates from an array of backgrounds and life experiences. We offer the opportunity to belong, connect, and contribute as members of a growing number of active affinity groups and employee resource groups. We host annual and ongoing learning experiences that cover a variety of inclusion and diversity issues, such as our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with cloud services
- Experience working with XML, markdown, or HTML
- Familiarity with using and following a style guide
- Experience using content publishing tools to write, format, manage, and publish technical content on the web
- Experience working directly with software engineering teams on a product for a technical audience, such as developers, DevOps, IT professionals, or engineers
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125,800/year in our lowest geographical market, up to $187,300/year in our highest geographical market. Pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via our internal or external careers site.
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