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Technical Publications Senior Manager

Hitachi - Vantara · Florida, NY, USA ·

Pay:
125.000 - 150.000
Job type:
Full Time

Technical Publications Senior Manager (Product)
We are seeking a visionary and results-driven Senior Manager to lead our global content strategy and documentation teams. In this role, you will define the future of our product documentation, developer portals, and content translation efforts.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the long-term vision for technical publications, aligning content strategy with product roadmaps and company OKRs.

Team Management: Recruit, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of technical writers, information architects, and localization specialists.

Process Optimization: Modernize our content infrastructure. Implement and manage modern CCMS platforms, AI-driven search, and automated publishing pipelines to increase efficiency.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, UX, and Customer Success to ensure documentation is integrated seamlessly into the user journey.

Quality & Metrics: Establish industry-standard KPIs (e.g., CSAT scores, time-to-first-value, deflection metrics) to measure content effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Experience: 15+ years of experience in technical writing, with at least 6+ years managing global technical writing teams in the unstructured data storage, SaaS, or hardware industry.

Technical Acumen: Ability to understand complex technical architectures, APIs, and developer tools. Familiarity with modern authoring tools (e.g., SDL Tridion, Git, Markdown-based workflows).

Communication Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to distill complex technical concepts into clear, actionable, user-centric content.

Data-Driven Mindset: Experience using analytics and customer feedback to iterate on content and prove ROI.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Technical Communication, Computer Science, or related field.

Benefits
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry‑leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We also champion life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent).

Equal Opportunity Employer
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.

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