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Senior Technical Writer
Location
United States
Posted
122 days ago
Salary
$116K - $187.7K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Technical Writer
LaunchDarkly
• Write, edit, maintain, and improve the LaunchDarkly product, API, and SDK documentation. • Work with product managers, developers, and designers to write and edit documentation for new features. • Work with the docs team to scope, plan, and implement upgrades and content improvements to the docs site. • Work with support, developer advocates, and customer success to address customer pain points with documentation updates and improvements. • Respond to feedback on existing docs in a timely, effective manner.
Job Requirements
- very strong writing and editing skills.
- 5+ years of technical writing experience and/or a degree in a tech field or related industry.
- strong technical background, possibly as a software developer.
- excellent at distilling technical and UX requirements into documentation plans and deliverables.
- great at owning the docs for a product or feature from kickoff to publication.
- strong communicator who’s able to balance multiple priorities.
- strong working on your own or in a friendly, collaborative team.
- comfortable working with Markdown and/or HTML, Git, GitHub, common CI/CD tools, and workflows based in version control tools.
- familiarity with AI-based code and content management tools, like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code is a plus.
- proficiency in any programming language is a plus.
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- health
- vision
- dental insurance
- mental health benefits
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