Principal Technical Writer
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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Job Number: 31954
Position Title: Principal Technical Writer
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Description
Informatica is looking for a Lead Technical Writer to join our team.
Job Summary
As a Lead Technical Writer, you will be responsible for creating effective product documentation, videos, and tutorials in a fast-paced environment. You will work closely with a globally distributed team of software engineers, UX designers, product managers, and doc team members to create great user-facing content.
What You'll Do
- Write highly technical content that describes product functionality
- Create project plans, maintain schedules for specific projects, and communicate documentation status to the document manager or lead
- Develop tutorials to improve the first user experience
- Work with stakeholders to deliver meaningful error messages, useful UI strings, and develop clear terminology
- Contribute how-to articles, knowledge base articles, videos, walkthroughs, and other useful content
- Contribute to documentation team processes
- Edit own content for completeness, style, and accuracy to ensure it reflects Informatica's commitment to quality
- Compile, publish, and verify the content
- Mentor new writers and less experienced writers
- Collaborate on projects with other technical writers.
Key Essentials
- BA/MA/BS/MS or equivalent (engineering, technical communications, humanities, social sciences) preferred
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience
- Excellent analytical and written communication skills
- Excellent leadership and project management skills
- Able to quickly learn technical information
- Able to meet deadlines and help others meet them
- Able to communicate clearly and consistently with stakeholders on status and priorities
- Able to multitask, prioritize, and set and meet deadlines
- Able to develop and fine-tune documentation processes and style
- Able to understand customer requirements and incorporate them into the documentation
- Attentive to detail and accuracy is committed to excellence and owns and acts on quality problems
What Does Success Look Like?
- You use your excellent analytical and written communication skills to create content that helps increase customer adoption of products.
What We’d Like to See
- Knowledge of master data management, relational database, and cloud concepts.
- Experience with DITA, XMetaL, content management systems, source control systems, Jira, and Confluence
- Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud, video software, e-learning software, and/or WalkMe
City: Toronto
State: Ontario
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level
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At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.
Travel Requirement: Limited
Location_formattedLocationLong: Toronto, Ontario CA