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Senior Technical Writer, Cloud
1 year ago
The opportunity
The Documentation team at Unity is growing! We’re seeking an experienced technical writer with passion and drive, technical aptitude, and excellent writing and editing skills to join us on our mission to deliver great docs to our users.
We’re looking for someone who can quickly form good working relationships with developers, and work collaboratively to produce documentation that simplifies, explains, and empowers users to adopt and rely on Unity products and services. This includes both composing original content, revising draft documents supplied by developers, and making legacy content freshly relevant to an engaged audience.
Unity’s new Unity Cloud team is based in Montreal and works with colleagues across the world. Our platform-based solutions enable every Unity customer to discover and collaborate on 3D experiences in the Cloud for all industries.
Are you ready to join a hard-working, dynamic team of technical writers, content managers, and information architects working across countries and timezones to support Unity’s passionate community of creators? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
What you’ll be doing
- Write, edit, and review user guide and API documentation to help users get the most from our products.
- Support multiple development teams to deliver high-quality technical content within a fast-paced software release schedule.
- Use internal templates, standards and our in-house style guide (based on the Microsoft Writing Style Guide) to create clear and reusable content.
- Adapt existing content strategy and create new ones to reflect user needs.
- Help a globally distributed team improve the documentation user experience for our amazing community.
What we’re looking for
- Experience working as a technical writer on different types of documentation such as API guides, programmer guides, installation guides, and user manuals.
- Experience writing and publishing user-facing documentation for an international audience.
- Excellent computing skills, ideally with an understanding of programming.
- Impeccable standard of written and spoken English.
- Experience balancing multiple priorities and delivering results within tight deadlines.
You might also have
- Familiarity with how 3D data is used in the industries we support.
- Experience producing documentation using Markdown, as well as understanding of source control tools like GitHub.
- Experience using issue trackers such as JIRA to track project tasks.
Some travel may be required between Unity offices around the world and to some major industry events.
Life at Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, Unity had, on average, 3.9 billion monthly active end users who consumed content created or operated with its solutions. The applications developed by these creators were downloaded, on average, five billion times per month in 2021. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.
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