Senior Technical Writer

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We continually look for motivated and skilled individuals who are interested in supporting our customers - healthcare professionals who use our products to help patients and their communities.
We currently have the following opportunity available - please contact us for more details!
We don't just build technology. We build hope.
We are looking for a Senior Technical Writer to join our team!
Preferred location: Sunnyvale, CA Office Based (Hybrid)
What you'll do at Elekta:
The Senior Technical Author has proven expertise identifying key content requirements to develop high-quality and technically accurate customer-facing content to support our comprehensive software portfolio.
This role independently manages projects and priorities in a deadline-driven environment. The Senior Technical Author will collaborate with cross-functional areas of Elekta's global business and actively contribute with scrum teams.
This role requires strong interpersonal and inter-team communication skills. Regular status reporting across different functions is also required. The person for this role should have recent and demonstrable experience with:
Responsibilities

• In accordance with project requirements, local and global company policies, develop and publish content using DITA XML.
• Deliver contextually relevant content, for a variety of clinical site personnel, using help topics, release notes, configuration guides, and other supplemental material.
• Collaborate with various product teams to ensure quality and accuracy of content.
• Take ownership of deliverables in your product area, identify documentation needs, and spearhead efforts to identify areas of improvement.
• Regularly report to team lead your work status, obstacles, initiatives.
• Identify risks and manage and/or escalate to the project team and functional management.
• Initiate and support translation activities with the localization team.
• Demonstrate ability to prioritize tasks and work simultaneously on multiple projects.
• Able to scope, resource, plan, track, and execute against release timelines, in close collaboration with other stakeholders.
• Actively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Other duties as required. This list is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all responsibilities assigned to this position.

People:

• Experience with peer reviews, working within a collaborative environment.
• Identify strategies to improve document content, delivery methods.

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Employees must be able to read, speak, write, and comprehend the English language.

• 10+ years of experience creating, editing, and reviewing technical documentation, or content strategist.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Current experience with DITA based documentation preparation tools.
• Current experience with Office tools, PowerPoint, Excel, Word.
• Experience working in a Content Management System (CMS).

What we offer:

• Opportunity to work with a proactive and supportive team.
• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
• 401k, paid Vacation and Holiday
• A health of additional benefits including wellness reimbursement, tuition reimbursement and flexible spending account
• Opportunity to work on cutting edge in medical advancement.
• Close-knit company culture
• Upward mobility

How to proceed?
We are looking forward receiving your resumé. Please attach your resumé in the application form and we will contact you!
If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact the Talent Acquisition Specialist at TA.americas@elekta.com.
EEO Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
The US base salary range for this position is $77,126- $115,690
[NOTE: It is understood that no single candidate will have equal expertise in all the areas of responsibility below. Successful candidates will possess a compelling combination of many of them and the self-awareness and wisdom to leverage existing and/or new resources in the area(s) where they lack personal mastery.]