Canonical Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical Products Jobs in Nigeria
Canonical Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical Products Jobs in Nigeria
The RoleYou’ll be part of an engineering team, focused on a specific Canonical product area. You will lead the team effort to create, maintain and improve documentation that serves the needs of the product's users, embracing the principles of the Diátaxis documentation framework.
You will have a broad impact on - and responsibility for - the quality of the user experience with the product, and will contribute towards the long-term success of the project itself.
As a Senior Technical Author on the team, you will participate in development of product strategy.
You will combine technical expertise with leadership in documentation, collaborating with colleagues across the company to establish documentation as a first-class engineering discipline.
You also be a part of Canonical's documentation practice team, that includes all the company's Technical Authors.
Here, you'll be amongst other documentation experts, who collaborate to define documentation excellence.
What you'll do on a regular basis
Create, maintain and improve software documentation
Work with engineering team members, to help them make effective documentation contributions
Influence the development of the product, as an expert user of the product, who has important opinions about its function and design
Engage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needs
Encourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentation
Help standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products
Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at Canonical
Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice, as part of a disciplinary team.
Our best candidate
Holds a B.Sc / BA Degree or equivalent
Cares deeply about functional written communication
Is a technical writer with a programmer’s mindset, or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation
Has a record of community engagement, in open-source software, documentation, research or other disciplines
Is sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communities
Demonstrates technical curiosity, and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges
Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm
Has experience of software development contexts; is familiar with: Linux, working on the command line, application deployment, system operations, and infrastructure management, Git, documentation markup languages Has excellent written
and verbal communication skills
Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events.
Additional skills that you might also bring
Deep technical domain knowledge
Open-source community leadership and management
User-experience, interaction or visual design.
What we offer you
Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills.
In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.
In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.
Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process.
Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Parental Leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Canonical Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical Products Jobs in Nigeria
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