Technical Writer

**Our Mission to be Bold and Impactful**
- _Work with exciting and leading-edge technology_
- _Fast paced and varied role working with industry experts_.
- _Develop documentation that will create a positive impact._

**How you contribute**
- This role offers an excellent career opportunity for an experienced Technical Writer to join the Product Delivery team to determine the documentation and learning requirements as well as produce deliverables including product manuals, how-to guides, website help sections, journal articles, and other content that distills technical information with ease and clarity.
- Your mission? To make processes easy to understand and products a breeze to use.

**Here’s what we need**:

- Development of knowledge base articles, release notes, training manuals, how-to articles and videos.
- Obtain a deep understanding of our products and services to translate complex product information into simple, polished, and engaging user content.
- Write user-friendly content that meets the needs of the target audience, turning insights into language that sets our users up for success.
- Research, outline, write, and edit new and existing content, working closely with various departments to understand project requirements.
- Work with development and support leads to identify all documentation repositories, revise and edit, and determine the best solution for data compilation and centralized storage.
- Develop content in alternative media forms for maximum usability, with a consistent and cohesive voice across all documentation.
- Work with the marketing communications team to ensure a consistent tone of voice throughout the customer journey.
- Produce “how-to” / “what’s new” software and hardware videos to showcase latest product functionality for inclusion into software release communications and materials.

**How you’ll succeed**:

- Bachelor’s degree in relevant technical field
- 3-5 years’ industry experience as an effective technical writer
- Proven ability to quickly learn and understand complex topics
- Previous experience writing documentation and procedural materials for multiple audiences
- Superior written and verbal communication skills, with a keen eye for detail
- Video editing skills - ability to work with video editing tools to record on screen footage and produce how-to videos for knowledge base / help files
- Experience working with engineering to improve user experience: design, UI, and help refine content and create visuals and diagrams for technical support content
- Ability to confidently communicate and work with cross-functional teams
- Atlassian tools / understanding of Confluence (desirable)
- Instructional design experience (desirable)

**The added perks**:

- Get a competitive remuneration package including superannuation.
- Participate in our employee share option scheme (Equity).
- Work alongside a friendly and passionate team on cutting edge technology - We know that our success and growth is a result of our motivated and inspiring teams.
- Take up our genuine learning and development opportunities.
- Settle into our great work environment and facilities.
- Chill out and enjoy our loaded kitchen facilities with games, snacks, drinks, fresh fruit and coffee machine provided.
- Enjoy the flexibility to work from home a few days of the week and our greatly appreciated meeting free Wednesdays.
- Take advantage of our office location in Milton - Enjoy the bustling cafes and tasty food options available
- Join in on our fun work events and activities such as 'Funky shirt Fridays', 'Coffee Club' and 'Emesent Radio'.
- Take up our paid parental leave.
- Work in comfort with a casual dress code.
- Utilise our secure bike storage and shower facilities offered on-site.
- Take part in our generous employee referral scheme.
- Centralised in Brisbane, we offer moving assistance to help you relocate and join our collaborative workplace.

**Who Are We?**
- Emesent has built a reputation as the key leader in automating data collection in challenging environments. Our award-winning technology, Hovermap, utilises innovative hardware, advanced algorithms and machine learning to automate collection and analysis of the physical world. Customers are able to acquire data in GPS-denied environments gaining insights that were not possible before. Our rapidly growing customer base are in the fields of mining, infrastructure and survey & mapping.
- Starting from a humble vision in Brisbane, Australia, with deep connections to Australia's globally recognised CSIRO, Emesent has made an emerging name for itself across the Globe and is successfully becoming a world leader in this unique industry of autonomous technology
- At Emesent we pride ourselves on the way our people operate, we embrace diversity and equal opportunity, and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds.
- Our global talents are a cut above the rest who are at the top of the