Technical Writer, 3D Assets & APIs — Part-Time

Journey; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,104 - 82,656; Part time

Job summary

Journey, a leading multidimensional experience agency, is seeking a part-time freelance Technical Writer to connect asset pipelines with user experience by translating complex 3D rendering, metadata, API, and portal processes into clear developer and stakeholder documentation.

You will collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams; produce API docs, tutorials, onboarding content, and knowledge base material; and maintain documentation using Markdown and docs-as-code workflows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical writing experience in DAM systems, complex web apps, or SaaS platforms.
• Strong understanding of 3D digital asset lifecycles, file formats (glTF, USD, FBX, OBJ), metadata, and workflows.
• Experience documenting digital portals, user onboarding, RBAC, and SSO.
• Proficiency with Markdown, Git/GitHub or headless CMS like ReadMe, GitBook, Confluence.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON, authentication, and web tech.
• Excellent written communication, tailoring content for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to interview stakeholders independently and synthesize information.

Responsibilities

• Produce functional specs from discovery and implementation artifacts.
• Create and maintain developer docs, including REST APIs and integration guides.
• Write user-focused docs, tutorials, FAQs, and knowledge-base content.
• Document workflows related to 3D asset ingestion, metadata tagging, and rendering pipelines.
• Create admin and end-user docs detailing portal config, SSO, RBAC, and asset sharing.
• Collaborate with developers, PMs, designers, QA, artists, and stakeholders to gather info.
• Maintain docs using Markdown following documentation-as-code practices.
• Create diagrams, workflows, wireframes, and process docs.
• Establish documentation standards, templates, and review processes.

Skills

Technical writing

DAM systems

3D asset lifecycles

Markdown/GitHub

REST APIs

Stakeholder interviews

Education

Bachelor's degree (English, CS, VFX & 3D Animation, Information Architecture, or equivalent)

Tools

ReadMe

GitBook

Confluence

Obsidian

MkDocs

Job description

Journey, a leading multidimensional experience agency, is seeking a part-time freelance Technical Writer to connect asset pipelines with user experience by translating complex 3D rendering, metadata, API, and portal processes into clear developer and stakeholder documentation.

You will collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams; produce API docs, tutorials, onboarding content, and knowledge base material; and maintain documentation using Markdown and docs-as-code workflows.