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Remote Senior Technical Author Job in Sudbury, UK Canonical

Senior Technical Author Canonical
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Senior (5-8 years) - Expert (9+ years)
SudburyUK


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


Who you are

  • Cares deeply about functional written communication
  • Has technical expertise with leadership in documentation
  • Record of community engagement in open-source software or other disciplines
  • Demonstrates technical curiosity and enthusiasm
  • Experience in software development contexts and documentation skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Hold 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



What the job involves

  • Set standard of excellence in technical documentation
  • Lead team in creating, maintaining, and improving documentation
  • Participate in development of product strategy
  • Collaborate with colleagues to establish documentation as engineering discipline
  • Collaborate with peers to advance documentation at Canonical

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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

  • Compensation based on performance and experience
  • Performance-driven annual bonus
  • Additional benefits reflecting values and ideals
  • 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



Company values

  • Empathy
  • Intellect
  • Passion
  • Teamwork
  • Energy



Company HQ

London



Founders

Mark Shuttleworth (CEO)
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