Are you looking to be in a workplace where colleagues inspire one another? Are you interested in competitive and impactful benefits? Do you prefer a hybrid work model and flexible work arrangements?

As a Senior Technical Writer, you will write accurate, engaging, user-focused documentation that adheres to Relativity’s technical writing and quality standards. You build deep customer empathy, identify opportunities to improve content and processes, collaborate with product managers, engineers and other subject matter experts, and work with a team of product documentation professionals. Senior Technical Writers at Relativity operate under light direction of managers, and assist associate technical writers and technical writers.

Role Responsibilities

• Produce accurate, engaging, user-focused product documentation
• Adhere to Relativity styles, guidelines, policies, and procedures for content; propose, evaluate and implement revisions to technical writing standards and guidelines.
• Identify and establish relationships with Subject Matter Experts, communicate and collaborate with other teams such as Product Management, Engineering, Support, and other teams to plan, research, create, validate and revise product documentation.
• Proactively identify gaps and improvement opportunities in existing documentation, and effectively address these opportunities.
• Define the intent, goal, target audience, customer value and the appropriate format for technical content, and when required clearly communicate these requirements to allow other technical writers to create content based on these requirements.
• Contribute to the team’s ability to adapt to release cycle and other process changes; propose ideas for how the team can best adapt to process changes.
• Manage or contribute to ad-hoc projects assigned by documentation team leaders.
• Advise and assist technical writers in the research, design, and production of product documentation.
• Review and edit content produced by other technical writers in the team.
• Assist in addressing backlog and technical debt projects for the product documentation team.
• Design and test hypotheses for customer value, usability, technical feasibility, and business viability. Independently develop solution hypotheses to solve low-to-medium complexity problems.
• Recognize existing problems, and proactively identify potential problems. Independently troubleshoot problems and present leadership with useful solution options. Initiate root cause analysis with assistance from more senior team members. Demonstrate effective communication to update managers and stakeholders of a problem and its resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS in Technical Communication or related discipline, or at least five years of experience in writing complex documentation for web-based software 
• Advanced technical writing, content production, and technical editing skills
• Intermediate HTML, CSS, and XML knowledge
• Customer focus and empathy
• Able to work effectively in a collaborative, remote team environment
• Familiarity with documentation publishing software (such as MadCap, RoboHelp, Wiki-based, markdown, DocFx)

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in planning, execution and delivery of high-impact product documentation projects.
• Experience in user-centric design and content development. 
• Experience with source control tools (examples include Git, Microsoft TFS) 
• Ability to contribute to multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize based on company and team
• objectives.
• Experience working in a software or technology organization that utilized agile development methodologies, with frequent product releases
• Demonstrated communication and teamwork skills 
• Experience integrating user stories, use cases and functional data into user documentation and examples
• Intermediate knowledge of MadCap Flare 
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with evolving project requirements and priorities
• Attention to detail with a creative eye
• Ability to efficiently and thoroughly address feedback on published content from both customers and team members
• #LI-Remote

Relativity is a team of passionate people always looking to grow and make our product and customer service the best it can be. Our team members come from diverse backgrounds with different skills and life experiences—and we love and celebrate those differences. We believe that employees are happiest when they’re empowered to be their full, authentic selves, regardless how you identify.

So, please come as you are. We can’t wait to meet you.

Benefit Highlights:

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans

Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers

Flexible work arrangements

Two, week-long company breaks per year

Unlimited time off

Equity program

Training investment program

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.