Senior Documentation Manager / Technical Writer

  • Full-time

Company Description

We are a fast-growing SaaS company with offices in San Francisco, London, and Ghent (Belgium). We are helping sales and marketing teams become ultra successful and our customers love us for it. You can learn more about our products at http://www.showpad.com.

Here are a few things that make Showpad a great place to work:

  • We are a fun, growing startup
  • We have over 600 customers. We're growing exponentially and received Series B investment last year to help turbo-charge our growth.
  • Our customers love us (and we love them!). Almost 100% of our customers renew every year.
  • Our founders are awesome. This is the second successful company they’ve started together.

Job Description

To support our Customer Success strategy in this fast growing SaaS company, we are looking for an experienced Technical Writer who can drive our documentation management. The goal is to create content to help colleagues and customers understand our product and get the most out of it. You will be the driving force to make sure the documentation stays up to date. You constantly reach out and evaluate to improve our documentation and align with the demand of our customers.

Key responsibilities

  • Write supporting documents for Showpad
  • Use different media (screen shots, animation, video, etc.) that increase users’ understanding
  • Revise documents as new functionalities or issues arise
  • Identify documentation gaps and opportunities, introduce innovative documentation techniques and concepts
  • Enhance our existing documentation processes
  • Proactively collaborate across Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to gather information and define documentation requirements

Qualifications

What we are looking for:

  • 5+ years of technical writing experience
  • Very sharp writing skills in English
  • Proven ability to quickly learn complex, technical products and convert knowledge into highly usable documentation
  • Eagerness to identify opportunities to improve our documentation standards and processes, and to help other writers grow
  • Strong cross-functional coordination and relationship-building skills
  • HTML and CSS competency are a plus

Additional Information

GET EXCITED. Because you're about to have a huge impact. Showpad is growing fast and we're having a great time working together doing it! We're a fun, friendly, passionate bunch, and we’re looking for more smiling faces to come join us!