Role: Associate Tech Writer/ Tech Writer

Location: Hyderabad

Type of Job: Permanent- Full Time

Exp: 0-5 Yrs

Brief Position Description:
Model N is looking for an excellent technical writer to join our globally-distributed Publications team. The successful candidate will have worked in organizations that have produced a variety of documents that help customers configure and extend enterprise application products. Technical writers at Model N are responsible for researching, writing, editing, and maintaining product documentation. They are expected to collaborate with individuals in Product Management and Product Development.

Responsibilities
 Agile Maturity: Show capabilities of self-organizing and be a cross functional scrum team member. Able to quickly achieve a consistent velocity. Help team complete the stories and achieve sprint goals, even if the tasks are not directly related to your role.
 Exhibit excellent information design skills to achieve consistency across a documentation set
 Develop and deliver documentation (user references, developer guides, release notes, etc) for Model N applications
 Improve the depth and quality of the documentation set based on feedback from internal and external customers
 Participate and contribute to documentation development activities from estimation, planning & scheduling through to product rollout.
 Meet deadlines and produce high quality documents while adhering to the Agile process and Model N styles and standards. Successfully prioritize and work on several projects in parallel
 Display ability to adjust estimates to reflect the changed conditions. Proactively communicate changes that may affect the schedule
 Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of product
 Think from the end-user perspective.

Requirements:
 Graduate/Postgraduate in English/Journalism/Communication with a good understanding of software or, a B.E./B.Tech/Master of Computer Applications degree
 5 plus year’s experience writing for business-user and developer audiences
 Excellent written and communication skills and a strong attention to detail as demonstrated through writing samples (portfolio is required for consideration)
 Ability to write for an average USA reader (excellent understanding of US English)
 Self-starter with a track record of being able to drive projects to completion with minimal supervision
 Be able to document aspects from scratch or from SME inputs
 Ability to work and communicate effectively with a globally-distributed team
 Expertise with industry standard tools such as Adobe Frame Maker and Acrobat Professional, MS Office, etc

Desired:
 Knowledge of single-sourcing a plus
 Experience with re-use and repurposing concepts a plus
 Experience working with wiki-based tools like Confluence or MindTouch a plus
 Experience working with UNIX or Linux a plus
 Familiarity with HTML also a plus.