Technical Writer

Hootsuite; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 59,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Hootsuite is seeking a Technical Writer to write, edit, and curate content for our internal Customer Support knowledge base and external Help Center. You’ll work with the Customer Support and Product teams to assess content needs and ensure users can easily access information to provide the best customer experience.

You’ll develop Knowledge Base publishing training, improve content with usage data, and support writing standards for external Help Center and internal Knowledge Base content.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline with 2–5 years in a customer service, documentation, or knowledge management role or equivalent.
• Experience in operational support or SaaS environment preferred.
• Proven ability to create clear, easy-to-read content with content-authoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver Knowledge Base publishing training to Customer Support teams as needed.
• Leverage usage data to improve content relevance and usability.
• Support development of writing standards, processes and workflows for external Help Center and internal Knowledge Base.
• Create new content from requests and collaborate with Product and Customer Support.
• Coordinate with Customer Support leadership to remove barriers to content usage and adoption.
• Collaborate with Product teams to build internal and external content for product releases.
• Work with writers to align training materials with Help Center content.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Knowledge base

Confluence

MadCap Flare

HTML/CSS basics

Writing standards

Project management

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Confluence

MadCap Flare

HTML

CSS

Job description

We’re looking for a Technical Writer to write, edit, and curate the content in our internal Customer Support knowledge base and external Help Center, as needed. Reporting to the Director, Customer Support Enablement, you’ll be working with the Customer Support and Product teams to assess content needs and ensure that users can easily access the information they need to provide the best customer experience and that customers can easily find the information they need.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and deliver Knowledge Base publishing training to Customer Support teams on an as needed basis.
• Leverage usage data to improve content so as to provide increasingly relevant and usable content.
• Support the development of modern and on-brand writing standards, processes and workflows for external Help Center and internal Knowledge Base content.
• Leverage usage data to improve content so as to provide increasingly relevant and usable content.
• Create new content based on incoming requests as well as proactive collaboration with Product and Customer Support.
• Work closely with our Customer Support Training Specialists, Enablement Strategist, and Technical Writers to ensure alignment across training materials and Help Center content.
• Collaborate with Product teams to build required internal and external content for product releases and updates as needed.
• Coordinate with Customer Support leadership to remove barriers to content usage and adoption.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

What You’ll Need

• Bachelors’ degree in any discipline plus 2-5 years experience in a customer service, documentation, or knowledge management role or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
• Experience working in an operational support environment and/or SaaS environment is preferred.
• Proven experience working with Confluence, Madcap Flare, or other content authoring software, basic knowledge of HTML and CSS; demonstrated ability to create clear and easy to read content.
• Process/Project Management: Skilled at figuring out and managing the processes and timelines necessary to get work accomplished.
• Open Communication: Clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding.
• Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs.
• Customer Focus: Demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers to meet their needs.
• Commitment to Results: Consistently achieves results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results.
• Decision Making: Consistently chooses the best course of action (from a number of alternatives) to address business problems and/or opportunities.
• Creativity and Innovation: Seeks new and better ways of doing things, generates original and imaginative ideas, products, or solutions.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Priority Setting: focuses time/energy on the most important issues/opportunities. Clearly understand how to assess the importance of tasks and decisions.
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects.

Who You Are

• Solution seeker: You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked.
• Lifelong learner: You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t.
• Resilient adapter: In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
• Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
• Critical challenger: You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
• Active communicator: You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
• Integrated thinker: You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals.
• Accountable owner: You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
• Bar-raiser: You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.

This posting is for a current vacancy for which we are actively hiring.

Canada Pay Range For This Role
$59,200—$83,000 CAD
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Job Criteria

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
• Industries: Software Development