Technical content writer

About the company

Aviator (YC S21) builds tools to automate necessary-but-mundane engineering workflows for customers like Bosch, Slack and Square. With Aviator's productivity-oriented tools, engineers save up to 10 hours a week on their code-submission processes, testing processes and many other tasks. We’re a well funded company, with significant enterprise revenue and notable Silicon Valley investors like Elad Gil, Lenny Rachitsky, Global Founders Capital and others.

About the role

We are a tight-knit team of engineers and problem-solvers, looking for a technical writer on contract basis who can help scale our content strategy. As a Technical Content Writer, you will play a pivotal role in creating clear, engaging, and accurate technical content that educates and informs our audience. You will do your own research and collaborate with our team to produce high-quality documentation, articles, tutorials, and other forms of technical content that cater to both experts and beginners in the field.

Things you’ll help with:

• Create technical product content such as technical blog posts, website copy, case studies, getting-started guides .
• Create content that improves SEO.
• Effectively communicate the value of new products and services to prospective customers.
• Research on technical topics and write authoritative genuine content
• Gain insight into customer use of current products, untapped opportunities to share our product with the users.
• You may use ChatGPT to create some outlines but the content must be generated in an authentic manner

Skills & Experience

• Experience working closely with developers.
• Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Experience doing your own research and coming up with deep authentic technical material
• Creative thinking and problem solving skills.
• Willingness to learn new technical concepts.
• Having a CS degree is a plus.
• Prior startup experience is a plus.

Other points to note

• Open to applicants from any location (we’re remote first), but available during Pacific Time work hours.
• Show us evidence of exceptional communication skills (ideally on technical topics) - this is the primary skill we're looking for in this role.
• Although we are looking to hire this person on a contract basis, over time we are happy to extend that into a full-time role for the right candidate.

What we offer in return

• A competitive salary
• Unlimited vacation policy (we encourage a minimum of 2 weeks every year to make sure you actually take vacation).
• A learning-oriented culture: we’ll sponsor books, tools, and other job-related learning that you’re interested in.
• An opportunity to grow the company and culture from its early days.
• Don’t see something you were looking for/ need? Let us know!

Intro chat -> skills assessment interview -> proof of prior work/ take home assignment -> meet the team -> offer