Undead Labs is looking for a highly motivated and passionate Technical Writer for the Studio. As the Technical Writer for Undead, you’ll collaborate with key stakeholders on all of our projects to champion our documentation culture. Our ideal candidate will be focused on gathering requirements, and creating, teaching, and maintaining a documentation culture and process that provides efficiencies to a wide variety of services within the studio.
At Undead Labs, we work in highly collaborative, cross-discipline teams because we understand that the best ideas are ones we generate together. We are humble and curious in our work, and are always striving to make things better - for our players, for each other, and for our industry. Everyone here is committed to helping the team thrive, enabling us to rise to the moment to build incredible games.
Core Responsibilities & Objectives
- Gather requirements from key stakeholders across project teams and organize Confluence in an easy to grok, easy to update manner.
- Identify and fill gaps in our documentation by meeting with key departments across the studio to improve their documentation like HR, IT, and project teams.
- Collaborate with the People and Culture team to organize, templatize, and document the hiring, peer review, onboarding and off-boarding processes.
- Build and execute on training, tutorials, and other tools to improve the documentation culture at the studio.
- Focus on creating documentation processes that allow studio members to easily keep design specs, processes, decisions up to date.
- Review, edit and improve studio documentation and create templates to follow a consistent standard
- Partner with Discipline Directors to streamline discipline tutorials, training, and documentation.
Core Traits & Experience
- Passion for video games, developers, and collaborating on efficient processes.
- 3+ years experience in technical writing, IT, Production, Operations, or a related field.
- A self-starter with the ability to make progress in the face of ambiguity by being humble, curious, and collaborative.
- Disciplined at creating and maintaining documentation, standards, and best practices.
- An ability to communicate effectively across disciplines.
Bonus Traits & Experience
- Basic understanding of game development.
- Some familiarity with developer tools like Maya, Unreal, Houdini, Jira, Figma, etc.
- Basic technical skills or desire to learn basic technical skills and programs: Google Suite, Slack, Confluence, Miro.
Physical Requirements
- Close vision to monitors and screens, consistently working on computer equipment such as keyboards and monitors, long periods of sitting.
- Noise levels are low to moderate in the work environment.
Reasonable accommodations can be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
About Undead Labs
We are creators of the hit survival-fantasy franchise State of Decay with a fan base of over 10 million people. As an independent member of Xbox Game Studios, we collaborate with a huge network of skilled specialists in all disciplines, providing incredible opportunities for joint development and learning.
Undead Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
We look forward to hearing from you!