Anaplan
Senior Technical Content Manager
Manchester, United Kingdom. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will lead the Technical Content team, which is responsible for Anapedia, the Anaplan Planual, and documentation for the Anaplan Applications portfolio. You will manage a team of roughly 18 people and drive the vision, strategy, and modernization of content operations using AI technologies.
What you will do
- Own and drive the vision and strategy for Anaplan's technical content function
- Lead, coach, and develop a ~15-person organization structured across two sub-teams
- Challenge the status quo in how technical content is planned, produced, and maintained
- Identify and implement AI-powered tools and workflows to accelerate content creation and localisation
- Evaluate, select, and evolve content management systems and tooling
- Contribute directly to complex or high-visibility content
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering, UX, and Support
- Own the roadmap and operating model for translating and localising technical content
- Define and track metrics for content quality, coverage, freshness, and efficiency
Required qualifications
- Proven experience managing a mid-size team (roughly 15–25 people)
- Strong track record of setting up, maintaining, and scaling technical content operations
- Hands-on familiarity with AI technologies applied to content creation, editing, quality assurance, or localisation
- Solid working knowledge of modern content management systems and documentation tooling
- Demonstrated bias toward challenging existing processes and driving change
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to operate confidently with senior stakeholders
Nice to have
- Knowledge of enterprise planning, EPM, or connected planning software
- Experience running or scaling a localization/translation program for technical content
- Background in SaaS or enterprise software documentation, including experience with API, application, or platform documentation
About the company
Anaplan is a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through an AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform. Their customers include global companies such as Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH, and Bayer.