Anduril Industries - Boston, MA
posted 4 months ago
Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Technical Editor to join our team on a 6-month contract basis. This position is pivotal in implementing our content strategy and operations, ensuring a cohesive voice across various content-producing teams. The Senior Technical Editor will report directly to the Head of Software Documentation and will collaborate closely with product, engineering, QA, and user experience teams to produce and edit a range of content, including how-to guides, conceptual user documentation, error messages, and reference documentation. This role demands strong project management and organizational skills, a solid understanding of software, and a passion for delivering accurate, developer-focused content. In this role, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining design and content style guides, enforcing brand voice and standards across multiple channels, and working with technical writers and engineers to review technical documentation. You will define and implement the content strategy for technical documentation, create and edit content submitted by team members, and manage the editorial budget. Prioritizing work and driving the content deliverable schedule to completion will be key aspects of your responsibilities, along with creating templates and developing guidelines for technical documentation. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience as an editor, preferably in the software technology industry, and possess excellent interpersonal skills to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You should have experience developing content standards, maintaining a style guide, and a proven track record of implementing content strategies. Familiarity with structured authoring and content reuse is essential, as is the ability to uphold the highest standards of editorial quality, accuracy, and style.