Job Description
Job Summary
- Documentation is essential to our Support Engineering operation, both for customers and for our team.
- We are looking for a driven and effective leader and team manager for technical documentation.
- The Technical Documentation Manager will own, coordinate, and drive the documentation efforts of the team.
- This is an opportunity to shape Canonical’s internal and external-facing documentation, and the knowledge sharing architecture and lifecycle.
- From analysis and planning, through publishing and maintenance, the Technical Documentation Manager will lead global initiatives to produce best-in-class documentation for our end users and internal teams.
Responsibilities
What you’ll do:
- Take ownership over all Support documentation and related processes
- Define growth and improvement KPIs, regularly report status, drive achievement
- Collaborate with other documentation leaders across the organisation
- Develop structure and workflows for technical authors and engineers
- Track and manage projects from concept through delivery and maintenance
- Ensure documentation is updated in conjunction with product changes and releases
- Develop familiarity with Canonical products, and author documentation yourself
- Create and deliver training for engineers and technical authors
- Coordinate document publication with Support Leadership
- Identify opportunities for improved processes, or gaps in current documentation
- Work with the objectives and principles in Canonical’s documentation strategy
Requirements
Who you are:
- Graduate level education is desired, undergraduate degree is required
- You have a passion for open source software, and the impact it has on the world
- You have a background in documentation creation and management
- Experience as a technical author is required, particular experience with public or private cloud technologies is desired
- Project management experience is desired; a PMP is a bonus.
We Offer
- 100% work-from-home
- Learning and development
- Competitive salary
- Recognition rewards
- Annual leave
- Priority Pass for travel.