Job Description

Technical Writer

Temporary Position

Position Summary

We are looking for an experienced technical content writer to join our team working with our client based in Austin, TX. This is a temporary position and is expected to serve 3 to 6 months.

What You Will Do

• Perform updates of simple to moderate complexity to procedural articles as assigned by partner team at a large global tech company, ensuring that assignments are completed on time and in accordance with quality guidelines.
• Write clear, simple content that adheres to partner company and departmental standards and guidelines.
• Ensure that content is technically accurate and uses appropriate tone, voice, grammar, formatting, punctuation, spelling, and messaging.
• Collaborate closely with strategists, designers, and editors.
• Give constructive feedback to your peers and review your own work with others.
• Incorporate last-minute changes into already-delivered copy.
• Review and sign-off on deliverables prior to publishing.
• Collaborate openly and effectively with team leadership to manage content assignments and communicate status proactively.
• Assist with training of new team members.
• Assist with User Acceptance Testing for new tools or features.
• Track time spent on assignments and report to team leadership .

To Be Successful You Will Have

• Excellent writing skills: ability to ensure accurate and consistent tone, clarity, structure, and mechanics of content
• Experience optimizing written content for localization/ translation
• Ability to balance multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced, unpredictable environment
• Proven track record working independently and with a team
• Experience working with style guides and an understanding of readability measurement methods preferred
• Experience with Adobe Experience Manager or other content management system preferred

In Return You Can Expect

• Outline the opportunity to learn, grow, have an impact.
• Work for a big tech company
• Annualized salary $75,000 to $80,000 per year

About Us

Lionbridge enables more than 800 world-leading brands to increase international market share, speed adoption of products and effectively engage their customers in local markets worldwide. Using our innovative cloud technology platforms and our global crowd of more than 100,000 professional cloud workers, we provide translation, digital marketing, global content management and application testing solutions that ensure global brand consistency, local relevancy, and technical usability across all touch points of the customer lifecycle. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge maintains solution centers in 28 countries.

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