Product Lead - Tax

Company Overview

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow's challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.

Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.

Product Lead - Technical Writer

Arcesium is a financial technology and professional services firm, delivering solutions to some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, and institutional asset managers. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex tasks.

Building on a platform developed and tested by one of the world's leading investment and technology development firms, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium launched as an independent company in 2015. Arcesium received additional equity backing from a second seed client, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the world's largest discretionary allocator to hedge funds. In January 2020, J.P. Morgan made a strategic investment in the company. Arcesium supports more than $675+ billion in assets with a staff of over 1650+software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

We are looking for an exceptionally talented individual to join the Product Management Group in any one of our India offices as a technical writer. The technical writer will assist in the documentation of the firm's proprietary software products and help with other language-sensitive tasks. They will also help define and implement new documentation processes and practices as part of the product management team.

What you'll do:

• Help to define a high-quality standard and compile documentation for Arcesium's data platform offering
• Help to set up the best documentation practices and processes in accordance with the industry standards
• Work closely with the engineers/architects/product managers to translate the product offering to documentation

What you'll need:

• 6+ years of experience as a technical writer / managing a team of technical writers
• Familiarity with data platforms will be an advantage and an understanding of different financial instruments and their lifecycle is preferred
• Be able to work in an environment where structure needs to be defined, and to work with multiple teams to set up new practices and processes.
• Familiarity with the best documentation tools used in the industry
• The ability to create extremely high-quality documentation, while taking into stride the industry's best practices of content creation
• Experience in working closely with product and engineering teams
• Outstanding academic background & passion to work in a high-tech software development environment. The candidate should be able to understand and translate technology very well, into simple yet comprehensive terms for end users.
• Graduates with exceptional English language skills, excellent analytical ability, attention to detail, and good interpersonal skills are encouraged to apply
• Critical thinking and the ability to articulate standpoints/ideas and influence stakeholders

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.