Technical Writer

Unity Unity · Enterprise · Brighton, United Kingdom · Marketing & Communications

Technical Writer for Unity products, focusing on creating and maintaining user and developer guides, API references, SDKs, and code samples. Requires strong communication, technical understanding of software development, and collaboration skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Maintaining technical content (user and developer guides, API references, SDKs, code samples) for multiple products and features
  2. Partnering with product managers and engineers to understand each feature’s underlying technology, target audience, and documentation needs
  3. Collaborating with team members to ensure that documentation is as clear, concise, accurate, and usable as possible
  4. Advocating for users during feature development to enhance workflows and make products easier to use

Skills

Required

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Technical knowledge and familiarity with software development workflows and concepts
  • Ability to distill sophisticated technical concepts into clear, easy-to-understand, user-focused documentation
  • Time management
  • Collaboration in a globally distributed team

Nice to have

  • Experience with object-oriented programming languages
  • Game development experience
  • Digital artistry experience
  • Real-time 3D development experience
  • Experience with source control software such as Git or Subversion

What the JD emphasized

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Technical knowledge and familiarity with software development workflows and concepts
  • The ability to distill sophisticated technical concepts into clear, easy-to-understand, user-focused documentation
  • The ability to manage your time well and work in a globally distributed team, maintaining active communication with partners across timezones