Technical Writer - Frostbite (12 Month TFT)

Frostbite is EA’s proprietary game engine that comes equipped with tons of tools and technologies designed to build incredible games. Our in-house engine offers the unique ability to adapt to each game while working hand-in-hand to prioritize what to build. Our goal is to empower creators all over the world to bring their best ideas to life by creating an engine that amplifies innovation across every discipline.

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As a Technical Writer, you will report to the Managing Editor of the Frostbite Documentation Team. You will be part of a distributed team that's responsible for empowering game creators to bring their ideas to life and unleash the power of the Frostbite game engine. You will do this by organizing, writing, and editing learning resources and documentation. Your user-centric approach will help new and experienced game creators learn how to use the Frostbite engine. You will work side-by-side with game engine engineers and experts to help them share their knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Work with distributed teams (product management, engineering, content, and experience design) to organize and sustain the Frostbite engine conceptual and how to documentation, UI text, and tutorials.
• Work with experts to learn about engine features, write documentation, and consult on best practices for conveying technical information.
• Employ creative approaches and accountability when managing projects that address game creator concerns.
• Provide guidance and participate in creating and maintaining documentation standards, such as consistency, reuse, voice and tone.
• Provide feedback on documentation tooling and process improvement across multiple, concurrent projects and systems.
• Contribute to content management practices to enable reuse and ease to maintain documentation.

Who you are:

• 5+ years of software or online technical writing experience within a technology organization
• 2+ years of project management experience, with the ability to organize tasks
• Experience working in a collaborative, Agile development environment
• Experience using a content management system (CMS) or similar knowledge management systems to organize and create documentation
• Experience creating and organizing technical documentation that is concise and accurate
• Experience translating technical concepts into written and visual formats