Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
4 years of experience creating technical content for a technical audience.
2 years of experience with HTML or Markdown.
Preferred qualifications:
Knowledge of Google style guidelines.
Ability to navigate ambiguity, support multiple projects, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
About the job
Technical writers plan, create, and maintain educational content as an integral part of the engineering or user experience. The content is often in the form of documentation, but may also be UI text, sample code, videos, or other educational material. Regardless of the content medium, technical writers are distinguished by their abilities to explain complex topics in a way that's useful to their audience.
In this role, you will take part in the new Google Cloud Platform Research and Development center and have the opportunity to create and impact the security world.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
Work with Product Managers, and Engineering Leads to identify the critical user journeys and create information architectures that help customers through those journeys.
Write technical documentation for security analysts including new features, how-to guides, Release Notes and reference documents.
Rewrite and reorganize existing documentation to improve the customer experience.
Edit, clarify, and proofread documents written by others on the team to match the Google style guidelines.
Manage documentation projects, and take responsibility for the quality of documentations.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
