Senior Technical Writer

The opportunity
Unity is looking for a Senior Technical Writer to help shape how developers and creators learn, build, and ship with our products. In this role, you will create technical content for multiple platforms and work closely with product managers and engineers to define content strategy. You will advocate for user-focused workflows from ideation through release. This role's for you if you love translating complex concepts into clear, concise, and user-friendly documentation. This is a high-impact role where for your work will be read, used, and trusted by a global audience.

What you'll be doing

• Create sets of technical content (user and developer guides, API references, SDKs, code samples) for multiple products and features
• Contribute to content strategy for complex content sets
• Partner with product managers and engineers to understand each feature's underlying technology, target audience, and documentation needs
• Lead by example in ensuring that documentation is as clear, concise, accurate, and usable as possible
• Advocate for users during feature development to enhance workflows and make products easier to use

What we're looking for

• Technical depth and hands-on experience with software development workflows and concepts
• The ability to distill sophisticated technical concepts into clear, easy to understand, user-focused documentation
• A successful track record delivering high-quality content in a fast-paced software development environment
• The ability to lead by example and provide guidance and coaching to less experienced writers
• The ability to manage your time well and work in a globally distributed team, maintaining active communication with partners across timezones

You might also have

• Experience with object-oriented programming languages, game development, digital artistry, or real-time 3D development
• Experience with source control software such as Git or Subversion to manage file changes across versions

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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