INACTIVE
Full-Time
Technical Writer
Posted on 3/10/2023
Infrastructure solutions for cloud environments
Mid
United States
Requirements
- 3+ years of demonstrated ability in technical writing and editing on DevOps tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - this will be tested during the interview process and is required to be successful
- Experience driving ongoing, multi-stakeholder projects from start to finish
- Experience structuring information to be easy to discover, navigate, and browse
- Experience editing the work of other writers
- Experience with Git and GitHub or another version control system
- Experience establishing and refining processes within a team or organization
- Humility and curiosity, especially curiosity
- Preferred: Hands-on experience in a technical field
- Optional: Passed any HashiCorp certification exam
- Optional: Experience with Swagger, OpenAPI, or similar automated documentation systems
- Optional: Experience in instructing or education. This could be as a technical evangelist, tutor, or mentor
Responsibilities
- Build and implement a documentation roadmap that balances new feature documentation with strategic, long-term improvements
- Plan, help write, and review documentation for new product features and functionality in collaboration with Engineering
- Review and shepherd documentation pull requests from engineers, customer success, solutions engineers, and the general public
- Empower others to write good documentation via templates, style guides, and clear information architecture
- Identify cross-linking opportunities between documentation and product user interfaces, tutorials, and marketing materials
- Collaborate with Education Engineers to align terminology and knowledge, and to identify the accurate formatting and placement for different kinds of content
- Architect processes for cross-department collaboration that scale as HashiCorp grows
- Plan and coordinate documentation improvement projects across multiple stakeholders
- Identify documentation gaps and problems, prioritize them, and implement solutions
- Organize new and existing documentation into a logical flow
- Partner with Engineering on intuitive naming and labeling conventions
- Mentor more junior team members
- Become an authoritative user of HashiCorp products (open source, cloud, enterprise)
Desired Qualifications
- Colorado, California, Washington and New York City Applicants: To view base salary ranges for this role in your location and to learn more about which roles are eligible for pay or commissions, please visit our Pay Transparency Calculator below. Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training. Information on our benefits can be found via the link below. Intern ranges can be found below
HashiCorp's mission is to build solutions that enable innovation at global enterprises, offering them a common cloud operating model via consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run their infrastructure with any application.
Company Stage
IPO
Total Funding
$1.4B
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2012
Growth & Insights
Headcount
6 month growth
↓ -1%1 year growth
↓ -6%2 year growth
↑ 14%Benefits
Medical, dental & vision
Life & disability insurance
Flexible spending account (FSA)
Vacation and Other Leaves
401(k)
Family Expansion Benefit
Maternity and Parental Leave
Expanded Mental Health Support
INACTIVE