Work at Home Technical Documentation Writer

Job Summary

A provider of the best 1% of the world's technical talent for companies to hire has an open position for a Work at Home Technical Documentation Writer.

Must be able to:

• Create and maintain user documentation for Aurea products, including but not limited to online and context sensitive help, installation guides, API manuals, technical bulletins, release notes, and best practice documents
• Solicit material and work from verbal communication, e-mail, functional and requirements specifications, and interim builds of the software in the development phase
• Evaluate the effectiveness of documentation, and seek ways to improve its effectiveness and economy

Applicants must meet the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or scientific field, or in American or English literature  with a minor in a technical field, or equivalent
• 2+  years of technical writing experience in a software company
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively interview subject matter experts, and to collaborate with others in writing, editing and reviewing large or complex documents
• Experience with structured authoring standards, such as DITA, and topic-based authoring; familiarity with single-sourcing and multiple output formats such as HTML, compiled help files, PDF, etc
• Working knowledge of Web formats and technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript