Senior Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical products

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As a senior technical author, you'll be part of an engineering team, focused on a specific Canonical product.

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.

As a senior technical author on the team, you will participate in development of product strategy. You will combine technical expertise with leadership in documentation, collaborating with colleagues across the company to establish documentation as a first-class engineering discipline. You will help define documentation excellence, in product, process and practice.

You don't need to apply for this role as well as our Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical products post - please apply for just one of them. They are both handled in the same process, and there is absolutely no disadvantage in applying to one or the other. We will ensure that you are considered appropriately for the right position as part of the process.

What you'll do
Contribute towards the development of documentation as a professional discipline at Canonical and beyond
Create, maintain and improve tutorials, how-to guides, reference guides and explanatory material
Address the needs of users including developers, system administrators and end-users
Use and explore the product in depth, to help discover where the documentation needs to be improved
Review, road-test and improve practical guides
Update reference and explanation material in collaboration with colleagues
Improve and correct documentation based on feedback from users and technical support
Read design documents and specifications
Standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products
Actively improve documentation, through attention to practice, process, tools and users' needs
Our best candidate
Has a solid and sustained track-record working with documentation in open-source contexts
Has contributed to software products in depth, both as a coder and a documentation author
Has demonstrably contributed to the advancement of software documentation practice, in their work or through participation in professional documentation communities
Has software development experience in Python, JavaScript or other suitable languages
Is familiar with application deployment, system operations, and infrastructure management
Is qualified with a BS/BA or equivalent in Technical Communication, English, or Computer Science
Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
Has the ability to assimilate technical information rapidly from a variety of sources
Has the character and flexibility to work in a fast-paced environment
Is familiar with command line UNIX/Linux
Is effective working in a distributed team
Is confident using Ubuntu Desktop for all of the above
Is familiar with Git or other version control systems
Has knowledge of HTML and Markdown
Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events

Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world's best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

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