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Senior Technical Writer, Platform Experience

ServiceNow · Waltham, Massachusetts · On-site

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About ServiceNow

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. Backed by Greylock and Sequoia.

About the role

Partner with product managers, engineers, designers, and developer experience teams to create guidance, tutorials, learning paths, and best practices that help customers move from getting started to production. Gain hands-on experience with the same tools, workflows, and technologies used by the audiences you support, building applications and prototypes to better understand customer challenges and opportunities.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years' work experience in technical communication
  • Samples of your prior technical writing work or other writing that demonstrates your ability to communicate complex ideas and technical information clearly
  • Experience authoring in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) or another XML-based structured authoring architecture
  • Experience independently planning, creating, and delivering documentation in a fast-paced, globally distributed software development environment
  • Ability and eagerness to demonstrate leadership by mentoring other writers, adapting quickly to changing priorities, and helping diverse cross-functional teams collaborate effectively to deliver exceptional results
  • Familiarity with modern web development concepts and technologies, including JavaScript, APIs, web components, HTML, and CSS
More about this role

At ServiceNow, we embrace representation in and from all professional and personal backgrounds and cultures. This diversity inspires passion and creativity among our teams and propels innovation in our products.

This role is part of our Product Content organization, a global team that creates the written and multimedia technical content that helps our customers understand and unlock the power of our products to achieve their business and digital transformation goals. We work closely with our product development, design, user research, and engineering partners to deliver just the right information, in just the right way, to support our customers, creating an exceptional product and customer experience.

More specifically, this role provides dedicated content support for emerging platform development experiences and tooling. By partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, the position will create the educational resources, implementation guidance, and best practices customers need to successfully build, customize, and deploy solutions on the platform, helping drive adoption while reducing support and onboarding costs.

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