Senior Technical Publications Manager

The role

You will manage and organize technical writing staff to deliver accurate user documentation for defense products. You will partner with engineering and operations teams to identify user workflows and ensure high-quality written artifacts.

What you will do

• Generate, review, and edit user-focused documentation.
• Contribute to the technical writing toolkit including style guides and software procurement.
• Evaluate and prioritize tasks to support product documentation efforts.
• Manage expectations and communicate risks and mitigations.
• Build a culture of technical documentation through process and training.
• Manage writing staff daily tasks to meet delivery targets.
• Provide status and performance metrics to the head of technical documentation.
• Facilitate transition to infrastructure and tooling for documentation at scale.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation
• Experience building content in a variety of content authoring tools including word editors and specialized authoring software (e.g. RapidAuthor, Arbortext)
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects
• Must thrive with autonomy and responsibility, managing competing priorities and tight deadlines
• Impeccable project-management skills
• Passion for excellent documentation and user experience
• Must be eligible for Secret and higher security clearance (US)
• Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA

Nice to have

• Experience writing technical user-facing documentation
• Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD), S1000D, or other applicable MIL-STDs
• Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage
• Experience leading and managing teams on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Must be eligible for Secret and higher security clearance (US)
• Subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.