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Technical Writer
4 years ago
The Documentation team at Unity is growing and we're looking for an experienced Technical Writer with passion and drive, technical aptitude, and excellent writing and editing skills.
We’re looking for someone who can hit the ground running, quickly form good working relationships with developers, and work collaboratively to produce great documentation that simplifies, explains, and empowers users to get the most from Unity products. This will include a mix of writing from scratch, revising draft documents supplied by developers, and overhauling legacy content.
You’ll be part of a talented, dynamic team of technical writers working across countries and timezones to support a passionate, growing community of developers and artists (around 1 million Docs visitors per month).
Responsibilities
- Writing, editing, and reviewing technical documentation to support software releases
- Gathering, editing, and publishing knowledge from subject matter experts and developers
- Supporting development teams to deliver high-quality technical content within a fast-paced software release schedule
- Using internal templates, standards and in-house style guide (based on the Microsoft Writing Style Guide) to create clear and reusable content
- Helping a globally-distributed team improve the documentation user experience for our amazing community
- Championing the role and importance of documentation within Unity and across the writing community
Requirements
- 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 delivering results within tight deadlines
- A keen interest in writing, language, communications and technology
Bonus points
- Passion for games and experience of Unity or 3D game development
- Knowledge or experience of programming languages, especially C#
- Experience producing documentation using Markdown, XML, or XMLDoc
- Understanding of source control tools (GitHub, Mercurial)
- Experience using issue trackers such as JIRA to track project tasks
Some travel may be required between Unity offices around the world (Brighton, San Francisco, Seattle) and to major industry events.
Who We Are
Unity is the creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, giving users the most powerful and accessible tools to create, operate, and monetize experiences for the real-time world. Unity empowers anyone, regardless of skill level and industry, to create 3D visual content using world-class technology, operate using resources that maximize ease-of-use, and monetize, so that they can find success with their creations.
The company’s 1,000 person development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners such as Google, Facebook, Oculus, Autodesk, and Microsoft to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Made with Unity experiences reach nearly 3 billion devices worldwide and have been installed more than 34 billion times in the last 12 months. For more information, please visit www.unity.com
Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
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