Technical Writer

Technical Writer

nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking.

Technical writers at nCino are responsible for writing technical product documentation for the nCino Bank Operating System. Through individual, hands-on research and collaborative work with development teams and other stakeholders, you'll gain a detailed, highly technical understanding of the nCino product and use that expertise to write a variety of documentation. nCino's technical documentation includes: user guides for nCino customers, configuration guides for the administrators and nCino employees who implement the software at financial institutions, release notes, contributions to product presentation materials, and other supplemental documentation. The technical writing team is housed in the Marketing department; in addition to technical writing, you'll have the opportunity to write for the nCino Community blog, contribute product copy, and collaborate with product marketers and other content creators.

**Objectives**

Within the first few months on the job, you will:

- Earn your Salesforce Administrator certification
- Learn the Salesforce platform
- Create and maintain your own development environment-installing and upgrading nCino software regularly-in order to practice configuring, using, and documenting the nCino product
- Assertively request documentation resources such as product demos, and use this material to create complete documentation
- Take on additional writing assignments such as nCino Community blog articles
- Offer peer review to other writers
- Work to enhance our writing standards and team processes

**Responsibilities**
- Document user stories for the development team to action
- Handle all user and configuration technical documentation for several development teams
- Assist in nCino product releases by creating installation/upgrade guides and writing release notes
- Work with other content writers and colleagues from a variety of roles to produce and edit written content in support of the nCino product and brand
- Actively contribute to the nCino content writing team's processes and functions
- Interact regularly with nCino's online user Community; assist with document access, answer questions from both internal users and end users

**Qualifications**

**Required**:

- Requires a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrable ability to write effectively for a variety of audiences
- Excellent active listening and analysis skills
- Strong organizational skills; ability to handle deadlines and prioritize work in a dynamic setting
- Ability to work independently and as a team collaborator
- Technical aptitude
- Experience in documenting User stories
- Ability to learn a variety of tools, including word processors, collaboration software, and publishing platforms
- Attention to detail
- Interest in software development
- Interest in financial processes

**Desired**:

- Familiarity with Salesforce
- Familiarity with Jira
- Familiarity with financial services, in particular with small business and commercial banking
- Salesforce Administrator certification
- Experience with the software development lifecycle

If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino.

nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success. We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

Job ID R4912