MathWorks is hiring: Senior Content Editor in Natick
MathWorks - Natick, MA, United States, 01760
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Job Summary
MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations.
If reading about and learning technology appeals to you, if you have an eye for seeing ways to improve whatever you’re reading, if you consider yourself a teacher at heart, we’d like to talk with you. You might be:
- A developmental editor who works on technical subjects
- An experienced technical writer who enjoys coaching others
- A web content developer with a focus on technical communication
- An educator in a STEM-related field considering a career change
MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates diversity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.
Responsibilities
Play a significant role in the development of technical writers and customer-facing information:
- Serve as a thinking buddy for writers on their writing and content design.
- Give developmental and substantive feedback as well as copy edits on technically complex content.
- Run the software, test procedures, and examine examples to inform your edits.
- Collaborate on, develop, and communicate style guidelines, writing standards, and editorial processes.
Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.
Additional Qualifications
Required skills
- Aptitude and curiosity to learn and understand technology
- Ability to adopt the perspective of and advocate for the customer
- Ability to give explicit and constructive feedback effectively, with rationale
- Ability to juggle priorities and adapt your editing to meet deadlines
- Attention to detail, language, grammar, and organization
Pluses:
- Math
- MATLAB
- Programming
- Software development
- API documentation
- Structured authoring
- Instructional design
- oXygen, XML
- Web content design
- Web content accessibility
- Terminology management
- Translation
This position is an on-site role located in Natick, MA.
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