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Remote Senior Technical Author Job in London, UK Canonical

Senior Technical Author Canonical
£40000 - £60000
Markup LanguagesApplication DeploymentDocumentationManualsOnline HelpSoftware DocumentationTechnicalTechnical DocumentationTechnical WritersVisual Designleadershipmanagement
Senior (5-8 years) - Expert (9+ years)
LondonUK


Enterprise open source, secured and delivered by the publisher of Ubuntu.
1480+ employees
Enterprise


Role


Who you are

  • Cares deeply about written communication
  • Has technical writing skills with a programmer's mindset
  • Engages in community activities related to open-source software
  • Understands open-source software challenges
  • Demonstrates technical curiosity and enthusiasm
  • Experience in software development contexts
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent
  • Able to travel twice a year for events

Desirables

  • Deep technical domain knowledge
  • Open-source community leadership
  • User-experience design



What the job involves

  • Set standards of excellence in technical documentation
  • Lead the team to create, maintain, and improve documentation
  • Participate in product strategy development
  • Collaborate with colleagues to establish documentation as an engineering discipline
  • Engage with user communities to ensure documentation meets their needs

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Company mission

Canonical delivers open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. They aim to accelerate the adoption and quality of open source globally, aiming to ship the most software by cores. Canonical values empathy, high intellect, passion for technology, teamwork, and energy.




Company benefits

  • Global compensation based on performance and experience
  • Performance-driven annual bonus
  • Additional benefits reflecting company values
  • Twice-yearly in-person team sprints
  • Personal learning and development budget
  • Annual compensation review
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual holiday leave
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Opportunity to travel for company events
  • Priority Pass and travel upgrades



Company values

  • Empathy
  • Intellect
  • Passion
  • Teamwork
  • Energy



Company HQ

London



Founders

Mark Shuttleworth (CEO)
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