Technical Documentation Specialist This is a key role that involves leading the documentation efforts of an engineering team, typically focused on a product or family of products. The ideal candidate will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events. - Create, maintain and improve software documentation - Work with engineering team members to help them make effective documentation contributions - Influence the development of the product as an expert user of the product who has important opinions about its function and design - Engage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needs - Encourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentation - Help standardize the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products - Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at Canonical About the Role We are looking for individuals who care deeply about functional written communication and have a record of community engagement in open-source software, documentation, research or other disciplines. They should also be sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communities, and have technical curiosity and fascination with software technology and its challenges. - Care deeply about functional written communication - Have a record of community engagement in open-source software, documentation, research or other disciplines - Be sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communities - Demonstrate technical curiosity and fascination with software technology and its challenges Benefits Canonical offers a distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person, a personal learning and development budget of USD 2000 per year, annual compensation review, recognition rewards, annual holiday leave, maternity and paternity leave, employee assistance programme, opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, priority pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events. - Distributed work environment - Personal learning and development budget - Annual compensation review - Recognition rewards - Annual holiday leave - Maternity and paternity leave - Employee assistance programme - Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues - Priority pass and travel upgrades