Technical Author (US) Job at IQGeo in Denver

Salary: $85-$95k

Job Summary

IQGeo is seeking a Technical Author to support our Web and Mobile Software Engineering efforts for domestic and international enterprise customers. This role joins a dynamic team that enjoys working with complex applications and products that utilize software, GIS, engineering, and problem-solving skills. Our flexible scheduling and outstanding benefits support success in a highly creative, innovative, and energetic company.

 

About Us

Achieving universal broadband equity and meeting net zero carbon emissions are two of the biggest social and environmental challenges that the IQGeo team is tackling. To achieve this, more than 500 innovative telecommunications and utility companies around the world are “building better networks” using our award-winning geospatial software to deploy the fiber optic and distributed energy networks of the future. We play a vital role in helping utilities plan, design, construct and maintain the complex network assets essential to the success of our businesses and well-being of our communities. As a carbon neutral software company, we invite creative and talented people to join us in our mission to transform communication and utility networks for the long-term sustainability of our shared planet. Learn more about our customer stories.

 

Our Engineering teams are in Cambridge (UK), Denver (USA), Salt Lake City (USA), and Ghent (Belgium) and are responsible for designing and developing our geospatial products which are available both as cloud services and for on-premises deployment. You will be helping to develop the next generation of innovative geospatial products that support mission-critical operations for our global customer base.

 

Duties/Responsibilities

As an integral part of the Geospatial engineering team, the successful candidate will author user guides, release notes, and other technical documents to support new product releases that meet the growing list of requirements for the platform product and new industry vertical applications.

 

Your duties and responsibilities will include:

• Write User Guides, Installation Guides, and Developer Guides.
• Validate documentation against the user interface.
• Analyze and redesign documentation for improved usability.
• Create HTML help systems through MadCap Flare.

 

Required Skills & Experience

Essential

You must have all of the following:

• Experience building and maintaining product documentation including User Guides, Installation Guides, Developer Guides, and Release Notes.
• Experience creating technical documentation using MadCap Flare or similar tools.
  • Single sourcing to produce different variants of documentation from the same source.
  • Knowledge of handling documentation as “code” (to be able to implement content reuse and future-proofing techniques.)
• Experience validating product documentation against the related product.
• Experience working with agile development teams to understand the functionality to be documented.
• An eye for verbal consistency and an appreciation of tone and style.
• Quality proofreading skills and attention to detail.
• Experience creating visuals to explain concepts and processes.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, able to present technical concepts to engineering stakeholders.
• US citizenship or permanent residency required.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Desirable

Ideally, you’ll have some of the following:

• Significant experience analyzing and redesigning documentation for improved usability.
• Experience producing API documentation.
• Experience producing documentation for mobile applications.
• An understanding of responsive layouts and ability to apply techniques to display content on different types of devices.
• Experience working with Manula (manual creation software).
• Experience with Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) or web mapping.
• Experience within the telecommunications and/or utilities industries.
• Writing for a global audience.
• Writing for translation and localization.
• Experience using industry-standard style guides like Microsoft or Chicago Manuals of Style.
• Experience using Git or other distributed version control systems.

 

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

 

What’s In it For You

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance: monthly premiums are paid 100% for employee, spouse, and family! No contribution to benefit plan!
• STD/LTD insurance fully paid.
• Generous PTO with 8 paid holidays plus 2 “floating” holidays.
• Paid charity/volunteering day each year.
• Enhanced maternity leave policy (full-pay 3 months, half-pay 3 additional months) after 2 years of service.
• 401k Safe Harbor contribution, fully vested day one.
• Mentor program.
• Home office support for remote workers.

 

Flexible Working

We support hybrid and flexible working arrangements for all employees. We understand that life for many people involves school runs, care giving, or exercising!

 

Work Permits & Visas

You must already have the right to work permanently in United States.

IQGeo is not able to sponsor work permits.

 

About IQGeo

IQGeo™ is based in Cambridge, UK with regional offices in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Germany, Malaysia, and Japan. We are supported by a global network of highly skilled partners. Originally founded as Ubisense Ltd in 2002, the IQGeo brand was launched in January 2019 after the company was split into two separate businesses. Led by a team of geospatial technology pioneers, the IQGeo Platform software was first launched in 2010 and has an impressive pedigree in the telco, communications, and utility industries. In 2020, IQGeo acquired OSPInsight, a provider of fiber network management software, and in 2022 IQGeo acquired Comsof, a world leader in automated network design, headquartered in Belgium.

 

Today, IQGeo is the leader in introducing modern web and mobile geospatial applications into the communications and utility industries.