Job Title: Senior Technical Writer

Job Location: Remote 

Job Type: Full time 40 hours 

Travel Requirement: up to 25% 

Security Clearance: Secret 

Job Description: 

We are seeking a highly skilled technical writer to join our team and document complex applications and software systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in technical writing, with the ability to translate intricate technical concepts into clear, concise, and user-friendly documentation. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our engineering and product teams to produce comprehensive manuals, user guides, and online help content that enhance the user experience. If you have a keen eye for detail, excellent communication skills, and a passion for making complex information accessible, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities: 

You’re a perfect match if you: 

• Understand and can document complex apps, including desktop, Android, and web apps

• Are familiar with documenting app interaction workflow and UI

• Can write structured, detailed specifications

• Have excellent composition and grammar skills

• Understand the software development lifecycle

• Can manage documentation schedules, reviews, and approval processes for multiple products

• Work with minimal direction toward goals and can become proficient with new tools and software quickly

• Can create and maintain an information architecture for technical documentation including establishing a management strategy, and managing collaboration, review, version control, and publication processes

You get bonus points if: 

• You have experience editing material for communications, reports, manuals, briefs, proposals, catalogs and related technical and administrative publications

• You don’t mind editing proposals and manuscripts by reviewing content for compliance, completeness, accuracy, and correctness of language to meet standards of style and accuracy

• You are skilled at finding inconsistencies of thought, development, or organization in documentation

• You are comfortable editing copy and managing rewrites of material 

We know you have what it takes if you have: 

• Exceptional research and analytical skills

• A high attention to detail 

• Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and graphics 

• Proofreading experience and familiarity with standard technical style guides

• Experience maintaining templates and modules of technical documents

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in English, journalism, writing or similar

• 3+  years of relevant experience in developing technical publications including writing, graphic design, development of artwork, and document control

• Basic project management skills with an emphasis on time management (prioritization, scheduling and deadline management), communication, organization (document planning, file management, and task tracking), and project planning (scope definition and milestone setting)

• Familiarity with Jira or similar ticketing system

• SME in Microsoft Applications, Adobe Creative Suite, and other relevant content management tools

• Comfortable with written communication and documentation 

• Self-starter with the ability to dive in with minimal direction 

• Flexible and have experience working in a fast-paced environment 

• Good communication and interpersonal skills 

• Must obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance 

• Must be a US citizen 

• Must pass a background check and drug screening 

Sample Work and Portfolio: 

Please provide a link or a sample of recent technical writing for evaluation.

Background Screening/Check/Investigation: 

Successful completion of a background screening/check/investigation will/may be required as a condition of hire. 

ADA: 

Sherpa 6 will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990. 

EEO/AA: 

Sherpa 6 does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, height, weight, or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/opportunity/affirmative action employer. 

Benefits: 

We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit. 

About Sherpa 6: 

At Sherpa 6 we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach to a problem is to find a user-focused and design-driven solution that is simple yet functional and effective. We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology. We hire people who are forward thinkers, passionate about what they do, love to collaborate and want to constantly learn. We enjoy what we do and we're not afraid to put the extra effort in to accomplish the mission; call us Sherpas. As a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, we know what it means to serve. We have made it our mission to be the leaders in solutions that protect and give our Warfighters the edge they need when put into harm's way.