The candidate will produce high-quality documentation that contributes to the overall success of our storage products.
Develop online customer-facing technical documentation and other educational content in English.
Research and design content based on user scenarios by understanding personas delivering content for design iterations developing and clarifying UI terms actively contributing to design reviews and conducting user testing/research to validate content.
Work with Product Management Development and Test teams to understand the IBM domain products and functionality and develop excellent walk-through guides and product and feature documents.
Collaborate with other senior technical writers to iterate on and improve team processes.
Work independently to source training research and other resources to develop content. To seek information and clarification whenever needed and incorporate that information into appropriate documentation.
Understanding of the role of information development in a product development process. Own the end-to-end authoring process: design development editing production translation and life cycle management.
Must collaborate with writers editors and global teams in all locations at different time zones to ensure adherence to the processes and styles.
* Strong English language communication skills (written and verbal)
* Strong user-level knowledge of writing tools and methodologies like DITA or any other markup language.
* Foundational understanding of UX design and research.
* Proficiency with Microsoft Office products and Adobe Acrobat.
* Expertise in producing multiple outputs from and coding in DITA/SGML/HTML/XML
* Experience and familiarity with Topic writing styles and approaches
* Experience with content management databases
* Experience in creating diagrams and graphics
* Master's degree in writing English communication information design user experience or related field or equivalent professional experience.
* Proficient editorial competence with the ability to follow and apply the IBM Style guidelines where appropriate
* Excellent teaming skills for collaboration across multiple development teams
* Strong analytical problem determination/solving skills
* Experience writing content for complex systems.
An extra preferred requirement would be Experience of using Adobe Experience Manager . It would be a plus point.