Technical content is the backbone of our client's digital self-service experience and is essential for client retention and growth. Are you interested in being part of a team that drives user-centered, high-quality content through a collaborative partnership with the Design community and a key Sales mission that plays a vital role in customer loyalty and IBM's profitability? As we strive for great user experiences, we need great technical content professionals building those experiences.
Design and develop technical information as part of the thriving content development team. Drive a joined-up experience that helps our users to work with our products. The roadmap for the product is modern and exciting - and great user content is a huge part of that. This is not a traditional docs role. Our technical content team is leading the way in IBM through our passion and dedication to being more than that. We own the technical content experience for our users and, along with the other team members, the successful applicant will help us continue to transform this experience.
What you will do
· Create clear, concise, and relevant technical content that helps users to achieve their goals.
· Apply design thinking principles to design content and collaborate with stakeholders from across the product.
· Gather information from a broad range of resources and synthesize and develop in to required deliverables.
· Create and curate content assets independently according to content plans.
- 5+ years of experience in developing content for software or hardware products
- Familiarity with the following is helpful:
- Familiarity with structural and markup languages (e.g. HTML, DITA, Markdown)
- Familiarity with authoring tools (e.g. Oxygen, Adobe Illustrator, DCS, Acrolinx)
- Familiarity with development tools (e.g. GitHub, RTC, Jenkins, Atom)
- You must be able to write well: clearly, concisely, grammatically, effectively.
- Visual and video skills help us to go beyond text.
• Design Thinking practices
• Familiarity with Cloud, and integration technologies
• Familiarity with IBM Digital Content Services (DCS), and using IBM Doc Manager and Workflow Manager (WFM) for content publishing
- You bring structure and sense from a pile of notes, discussions, and demos.
- You understand learning behaviours and reflect these in your content.
- Your content style is flexible to match different media and formats.
- You are excited by working with a breadth of content types.
- You are focused on user success and advocate for the content that they need for this.
- You thrive in a team and have excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- You welcome the opportunity to own and lead beyond “the docs”.
- You work independently, while maintaining an extremely strong sense of responsibility and commitment to teamwork.
- Your curiosity and critical thinking lead to innovative ways of working.
- You happily adapt to fast-paced environments that change frequently