Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical products

What you'll do on a regular basis

• Create, maintain and improve software documentation
• Work with engineering team members to help them make effective documentation contributions
• Influence the development of the product as an expert user, providing important opinions about its function and design
• Engage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needs
• Encourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentation
• Help standardise the structure, presentation, style, and language of content across products
• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at Canonical
• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best practices as part of a disciplinary team

Our best candidate

• Cares deeply about functional written communication
• Is a technical writer with a programmer's mindset or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation
• Has a record of community engagement in open-source software, documentation, research, or other disciplines
• Is sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communities
• Demonstrates technical curiosity and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges
• Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight, and enthusiasm
• Has experience in software development contexts; is familiar with Linux, working on the command line, application deployment, system operations, infrastructure management, Git, and documentation markup languages
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Holds a BSc/BA degree or equivalent
• Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Deep technical domain knowledge
• Open-source community leadership and management
• User-experience, interaction, or visual design

What we offer you

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits that reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events