Technical Writer
Company
Afresh
Location
Silicon Valley CA
Type
Full Time
Job Description
Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Technical Writer to plan, create, and maintain technical content as an integral part of the engineering or user experience. This is a short term contract role (90+ days), working with our Engineering and Product teams, managing complex documentation projects. In this role you will:
- Plan, create, and maintain technical documentation that serves Afresh’s internal engineering audience
- The content is often in the form of documentation, but may also be UI text, sample code, videos, etc.
- Establish and maintain relationships with other stakeholders across Afresh Engineering and Product teams
- You'll also provide review and support for content developed by engineering stakeholders and manage internal bug reports
- Edit, clarify, and proofread documents written by othersÂ
Skills and experience
- Degree in Scientific or Professional Writing, Technical Communication, Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience in technical writing, product documentation, copywriting, content editing, partner relations, and/or stakeholder management
- 5+ years of experience creating content for a technical audience, including developer documentation
- Experience working with software technologies systems (Saas based product experience preferred) by investigation, experimentation (e.g., reading or running code), and/or interactions with subject matter expertsÂ
- Experience researching and writing excellent documentation for developers (e.g., APIs, Software technologies, etc).
- Experience in understanding complex technical/functional information and translating them into documentation to assist the engineering team.
- Ability to explain complex topics in a way that’s useful to their audience
- Experience in programming in Python or SQL
- Desire to learn and document new technologiesÂ
- Experience with Notion
About Afresh
Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices.
Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.
Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.
Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference.
Date Posted
09/25/2022
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