GeekSI is seeking candidates matching its corporate culture. A candidate must be passionate about their craft, but who may think a little differently than the average employee. After joining the Geek Team, they inherently will contribute to GeekSI's reputation of providing the best, most innovative technical resources in the industry who ultimately not only care about their customers, but about their customer's business, clients and end-users. Work hard, play hard!
GeekSI covers 100 percent employer contribution toward health insurance premiums for employees and 50 percent for dependents.
We are looking for a remote Technical Writer to produce high-quality documentation to facilitate communication or to be easily understood by a broad audience. You will need to quickly understand systems, how they interact with each other, their capabilities, architecture, and structures, to then dive deeper into creating, editing, and reviewing system documentation.
We are currently NOT offering Sponsorship
The Must-Haves: To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below
- Must currently reside in the US
- Must have an associates degree or a degree in Technical Writing, or multimedia related field
- Experience: 2 years of experience as a Technical Writer
- Knowledge of instructional design and adult learning concepts, techniques, and methods
- Knowledge of trends in creative design, processes, products, digital media, and websites
- Skill in researching, compiling, and analyzing data to report findings
- Skill in using office automation tools (MS Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Email/Calendaring, etc.)
Responsibilities:
- Ability to use multimedia development tools (audio-video production, streaming media, graphic design, web site design, computer-based training software, publication software, etc.), with special emphasis on the Adobe Creative Suite and Adobe Captivate
- Work with internal teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of the product and the documentation requirements
- With some oversight, plans and conducts analyses of business problems associated with newly developed, or to be developed, functionality for IT applications
- Understand the processes, procedures and data associated with enterprise applications
- May be assigned to work on project teams to assist in analyses of system components and processes to facilitate improvement
- May be called upon to provide documentation and configuration management support to the functional analysis team
- Examples include: documentation of workflow procedures and data modeling documentation
- Produce high-quality documentation that meets applicable standards and is appropriate for its intended audience
- Create storyboards, discuss project plans, follow project schedules and manage project workloads independently while maintaining a strong working relationship and effective communication with the team members
WE ARE CURRENTLY NOT OFFERING SPONSORSHIP
GeekSI provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship status, disability, veteran or any other legally protected status. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits, training, termination, promotions, or any other condition of employment or career development.
Thank you for your interest in being part of the Geek Team.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $65,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Education:
Experience:
- Adobe Creative Suite: 1 year (Preferred)
- Technical Writing: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: Remote