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\nWe are looking for a passionate and motivated Technical Writer to join our Product Documentation team as we support the company in achieving top-priority objectives & key results 🚀\n\nDocumentation is both a community and a product asset and is relevant to all dbt users, regardless if they are an independent developer or enterprise team. The Product Documentation team provides the essential content and guidance needed to enable dbt users to be as productive and successful as possible.\n\nThis is an opportunity to contribute to a critical team of Senior Writers while gaining valuable technical writing experience for a developer product. This person will partner closely with Product Managers and the Developer Experience team, as well groups much closer to customers to better understand customer pain points.\n\nIf you are looking for an exciting opportunity at a collaborative, dynamic and fast-growing company, this role could be for you!\n🔑 Key Responsibilities & Duties\n\nNew feature writing for Product - 30%\n\n\n* Shadows others on how to write comprehensive docs plans for new feature writing projects\n\n* Just learning how to most efficiently obtain information for documenting new features\n\n* Pairs with senior writers to understand how to ask questions of PM and advocate for new users when documenting a feature\n\n\n\n\nDocs projects writing - 20%\n\n\n* Supports other writers in their docs projects\n\n* Manages time well and begins learning when to raise flags for confusing or inconsistent information\n\n\n\n\nAddressing ongoing issues - 40%\n\n\n* Troubleshoots issues and requests with help and guidance from peers\n\n* Needs guidance in crafting technical questions and understanding where to ask them\n\n* Understands which PMs and DX advocates are associated with which product areas, and pulls them into the issue when necessary\n\n* Seeks advice in prioritizing issue and might have priority already set\n\n\n\n\nPeer reviewing - 10 %\n\n\n* Begins reviewing peer work alongside another writer\n\n* Occasionally notices and voices concerns over gaps in the pull request being reviewed\n\n* Offers guidance and rewording suggestions\n\n* Begins to align suggestions with our style guide\n\n* Occasionally advocates for users when reviewing pull requests\n\n\n\n✳️ Qualifications\n\nRequired:\n\n\n* 1 to 3 years of experience writing technical documentation on a formal documentation team, or as part of another function\n\n* Ability to plan, prioritize, and carry out small projects led by a peer with high attention to detail\n\n* Ability to compassionately give and receive editorial and technical feedback\n\n* Communicates clearly and concisely, especially when working asynchronously or with a distributed team\n\n\n\n\nPreferred -\n\n\n* Experience with dbt or data\n\n* Previous experience working collaboratively with other writers, editors, and teams\n\n* Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team\n\n* A plus if you have experience contributing to or maintaining an open source project\n\n\n\n\nCompensation & Benefits\n\n\n* Salary: $94,000 - $107,000 USD\n\n* Equity Stake\n\n* Benefits: In the US, dbt Labs offers unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!), 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution, excellent healthcare, paid parental leave, wellness stipend and a home office stipend. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package\n\n* Benefits - dbt Labs offers:\n\n\n* Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)\n\n* 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution\n\n* Excellent healthcare\n\n* Paid Parental Leave\n\n* Wellness stipend\n\n* Home office stipend, and more!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations\nWhat to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):\n\n* Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner\n\n* Interview with Hiring Manager\n\n* Project\n\n* Team Interviews\n\n* Final interview with one of our Values Carriers\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior and Legal jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $145,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n
# How do you apply?\n\nThis job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
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