Senior Technical Editor, Elevate B2B Marketing Content

Ciena; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) matching

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Paid holidays and vacation

Paid sick leave

Paid family leave

Job summary

Ciena is seeking a Technical Editor in Baltimore to provide editorial review, guidance, and quality assurance for high-quality B2B marketing content across data sheets, white papers, brochures, articles, web pages, emails, videos, and assets.

You will partner with subject matter experts, content strategists, and cross-functional teams to strengthen content quality, improve asset structure and flow, and ensure timely delivery across channels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Writing, or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional editing and writing experience, preferably in technical fields.
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of marketing content from brand messaging to product communications.
• Attention to detail, quality assurance, and brand governance.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across global cross-functional teams.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Review and edit marketing assets to improve quality, clarity, consistency, accuracy, and flow.
• Correct spelling, grammar, usage, and mechanics per editorial style and brand guidelines.
• Collaborate with Brand, Legal, Portfolio Marketing, Communications and others to meet publishing standards.
• Provide recommendations on asset structure, organization, tone, and format.
• Apply editorial judgment across product-, solution-, and technology-oriented communications.
• Stay current on technical writing, editing, publishing, and AI-enabled editorial practices.
• Manage editorial tasks and information flow using Optimizely.

Skills

Editorial review

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Brand guidelines

Editorial judgment

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in English/Communications/Writing

Tools

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Optimizely

Job description

Ciena is seeking a Technical Editor in Baltimore to provide editorial review, guidance, and quality assurance for high-quality B2B marketing content across data sheets, white papers, brochures, articles, web pages, emails, videos, and assets.

You will partner with subject matter experts, content strategists, and cross-functional teams to strengthen content quality, improve asset structure and flow, and ensure timely delivery across channels.