.Senior Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical products Our ambition is to set a standard of excellence in the industry in technical documentation and documentation practice. This is your chance to be a part of that as a Senior Technical Author.The role of a Senior Technical Author You'll be part of an engineering team, focused on a specific Canonical product area. You will lead the team effort to create, maintain and improve documentation that serves the needs of the product's users, embracing the principles of the Diátaxis documentation framework. You will have a broad impact on - and responsibility for - the quality of the user experience with the product, and will contribute towards the long-term success of the project itself.You also be a part of Canonical's documentation practice team, that includes all the company's Technical Authors. Here, you'll be amongst other documentation experts, who collaborate to define documentation excellence.Location: This is a fully remote role, open to candidates across the globe.What you'll do on a regular basis Create, maintain and improve software documentationWork with engineering team members, to help them make effective documentation contributionsInfluence the development of the product, as an expert user of the product, who has important opinions about its function and designEngage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needsEncourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentationHelp standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across productsCollaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at CanonicalChallenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice, as part of a disciplinary teamOur best candidate Cares deeply about functional written communicationIs a technical writer with a programmer's mindset, or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentationHas a record of community engagement, in open-source software, documentation, research or other disciplinesIs sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communitiesDemonstrates technical curiosity, and is fascinated by software technology and its challengesHas demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasmHas experience of software development contexts; is familiar with: Linux, working on the command line, application deployment, system operations, and infrastructure management, Git, documentation markup languages Has excellent written and verbal communication skillsHolds a BSc/BA degree or equivalentIs able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for eventsAdditional skills that you might also bring Deep technical domain knowledgeOpen-source community leadership and managementUser-experience, interaction or visual designWhat we offer you We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide
