Technical Writer

3 Months ago • 2-5 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

Unity is looking for a Technical Writer to join their Docs team. In this role, you will gain a deep technical understanding of Unity products by working closely with engineering teams and the technologies themselves. You will apply that understanding and your writing skills to create content that explains and inspires. You will also collaborate with other writers to build a consistent and cohesive content experience across products, to build standards for coverage and style, to learn from one another, and to elevate writing at Unity.
Must have:
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Technical depth and hands-on experience with software development workflows and concepts
  • Ability to distill sophisticated technical concepts into clear, easy-to-understand, user-focused documentation
  • Successful track record delivering high-quality content in a fast-paced software development environment
  • Ability to manage your time well, and to work asynchronously in a collaborative environment
Good to have:
  • Experience with Markdown or any markup language
  • Experience with DITA
  • Experience in the Ads industry
  • Experience with object-oriented programming languages, game development, digital artistry, or real-time 3D development

Job Details

The opportunity

Unity believes the world is a better place with more creators. Join us on the Docs team as we help them succeed!

In this role, you will gain a deep technical understanding of Unity products by working closely with engineering teams and the technologies themselves. You will apply that understanding and your writing skills to create content that explains and inspires. You will also collaborate with other writers to build a consistent and cohesive content experience across products, to build standards for coverage and style, to learn from one another, and to elevate writing at Unity.

What you'll be doing

  • Creating sets of technical content (user and developer guides, API references, SDKs, code samples) for multiple products or features

  • Partnering with product managers and engineers to understand each feature’s underlying technology, target audience, and documentation needs

  • Collaborating with team members to ensure that documentation is as clear, concise, accurate, and usable as possible

  • Working on a globally distributed team, maintaining active communication with partners across timezones

What we're looking for

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Technical depth and hands-on experience with software development workflows and concepts

  • The ability to distill sophisticated technical concepts into clear, easy-to-understand, user-focused documentation

  • A successful track record delivering high-quality content in a fast-paced software development environment

  • The ability to manage your time well, and to work asynchronously in a collaborative environment

You might also have

  • Experience with Markdown or any markup language

  • Experience with DITA

  • Experience in the Ads industry

  • Experience with object-oriented programming languages, game development, digital artistry, or real-time 3D development

Additional information

  • Relocation support is not available for this position.

  • Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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