At Ubisoft Montreal, a pre-eminent developer of video games located in Montreal’s dynamic Mile-End neighbourhood since 1997, we offer a work environment unique in the industry for allowing you to build and cultivate games that are part of critically acclaimed, iconic AAA franchises of international repute.
When you join Ubi Montreal, you enter a community of passionate, extraordinary developers connected by their need to innovate, to be creative and to work with the latest technology. You’ll discover a world where employees enjoy constant career advancement, a supportive learning environment, and competitive compensation packages.
The Global Services’ Bridge team is looking for a technical writer to manage large amount of content and internally distribute complex information about our technology, services, and processes.
You will combine your love for technology, your writing abilities, and a strong focus on the user experience to deliver high-quality, well-organized documentation and tools that developers rely on to build solutions.
Your focus will be on structuring and organizing documentation for our developers while also writing and editing the documentation with the developers’ help. You will frequently interact with multiple teams and disciplines, guide them as they create documentation, and tailor processes to support their needs.
We hire people with a broad set of technical skills, for multiple services. Ideally, you have both a technical background and the ability to deliver high-quality technical documentation.
What you’ll do:
- Defining documentation standards and helping on glossary and taxonomy projects;
- Managing the documentation process, including the creation, edition, versioning, proofreading, and publishing of documentation;
- Organizing and rationalizing documentation for multiple products while using or building templates;
- Writing and improving technical documentation for the developers, this includes identifying specific needs for developers, supporting content creators, and analyzing developers’ requirements and craft documentation structures that suit their daily tasks;
- Implementing workflows to ensure the documentation is kept up to date and relevant;
- Editing, clarifying, and proofreading of technical documents written by your colleagues, and coach non-writers on ways to improve their writing skills as needed;
- Completing writing assignments according to set standards regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology;
- Combining text with supporting visual elements in order to present complex information in a manner that can be easily understood by the target audience.
What you bring:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in technical writing;
- Experience working on or closely with software development teams;
- Experience designing and delivering developer documentation;
- Experience with Confluence, Gitlab, Jira;
- Experience working with agile project management methodologies;
- Excellent organization and priority management skills;
- Ability to make complex information accessible;
- Ability to understand quickly basic operating standards and procedures;
- Proactivity in finding the information needed;
- English and French spoken and written.
What to send our way:
- Your CV, highlighting your background and skills
